Year 9 Health – Term 2 (WA Curriculum): Staying Safe in Our Communities

What this unit covers

In Term 2, Year 9 Health in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Staying Safe in Our Communities”.

Students develop essential safety skills including refusal techniques, emergency response, consent understanding, and strategies to navigate external influences while building respectful relationships.

Lesson sequence (10 lessons)

The unit breaks down into the following lesson-by-lesson sequence — each title below is a teachable lesson, in order:

1. Developing Assertive Communication and Refusal Skills for Challenging Situations
2. Creating Personal Safety Plans and Contingency Strategies
3. Emergency Response: Learning and Applying DRSABCD Procedures
4. Identifying and Managing Unsafe Situations in Different Environments
5. Understanding Consent: Legal Requirements and Communication Strategies
6. Building Respectful Relationships Through Boundary Setting and Communication
7. Exploring External Influences on Adolescent Risk-Taking Behaviours
8. Analysing Media and Peer Pressure Impact on Sexual Health Decisions
9. Investigating Alcohol and Drug Influences on Safe Decision Making
10. Integrating Complementary Health Practices for Personal Wellbeing and Safety

Curriculum codes in this unit

Content codes:

Reading the codes: WA codes (the ones starting with WA) pack the year level, learning area, strand and content number into one string, while the national Australian Curriculum v9 uses a different anatomy that starts with AC9 — same content family, different labels. Our complete WA Curriculum guide decodes both, character by character.

Planning notes for Term 2

WA terms run roughly 9–11 weeks, and in 2026 Term 2 runs from Monday 20 April to Friday 3 July — 11 weeks for WA public schools. With 10 lessons in this unit, that leaves breathing room for assessment, moderation and the weeks that disappear to carnivals, camps and public holidays — plan the assessable work to land two to three weeks before the end of term rather than in the final week.