Our program
Holistic, evidence-informed education for all young people.
SECURE SENSE OF SELF delivers curriculum-aligned puberty, reproduction, and menstrual cycle education for all young people across Years 5 to 6.
Our program is developmentally tailored, inclusive, and trauma-aware - supporting students of all identities to build emotional literacy, body confidence, and respectful relationships.
Programs are delivered by health educator Emily Sinclair, and align with the Personal, Social and Community Health strand of the Victorian Curriculum F–10 v2.0.
Respectful Relationships Alignment
SECURE SENSE OF SELF programs strongly align with the Victorian Respectful Relationships initiative. Our curriculum supports students to build emotional literacy, practise respectful communication, understand consent and bodily autonomy, recognise healthy and unhealthy relationships, develop help-seeking skills, and challenge stereotypes that contribute to gendered inequality.
Program outcomes
Our long-term outcome based aim at SECURE SENSE OF SELF is to support all students to become capable, confident and thoughtful decision-makers about their bodies and reproductive health. We strive to help young people develop a grounded sense of autonomy, understand their rights, and know when and where to seek help without hesitation or shame.
Foundations of
Self & Change
Years 5 & 6
Years 5 to 6 | Foundations of Self and Change
A supportive, developmentally appropriate introduction to puberty, reproduction and the menstrual cycle for students entering early adolescence.
This program helps students build foundational skills in puberty, reproduction and menstrual cycle knowledge. This program explores how bodies and feelings change during puberty, how basic male and female reproductive systems work and the fundamentals of the menstrual cycle - all within a safe, inclusive, strengths-based environment.
Through interactive learning and guided reflection, students begin developing a grounded sense of identity and autonomy in their changing bodies before stepping into later adolescence.
Program focus
emotional literacy, self-regulation & growing identity
puberty, body changes & body diversity
reproductive system literacy & basic reproductive processes
menstrual cycle literacy & awareness
and recognising needs, trusted adults & help-seeking pathways.
Curriculum alignment: VC2HP6P01–VC2HP6P10.
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
— William Butler Yeats