Australian & WA Curriculum Alignment

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - PRIMARY SCHOOLS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - HIGH SCHOOLS

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How our programs aligns with:

Australian Curriculum

WA Health & Physical Education

WA Science

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WA teacher:

Australian curriculum aligned:

Program approved by gynaecologist, endocrinologist, fertility specialist

Australian Curriculum Alignment

HEATLH EDUCATION

SCIENCE
EDUCATION

GENERAL CAPABILITIES

CROSS CURRICULAR

Australian Curriculum:
HPE Focus

Our programs cover strands;

Personal

Social

Community

Focus areas
  • Mental health & wellbeing
  • Relationships & sexuality
  • Food & nutrition
  • Health benefits of physical activity

The content of this program supports students with strategies for emotional awareness and regulation, improve body image,  and to support their own mental health and build a network of support

The content of this program supports students to develop positive and respectful practices in relation to their reproductive and sexual health and their identities;

  • Puberty and body changes

  • Menstrual cycle literacy (including cervical fluid, ovulation, period patterns)

  • Respectful relationships, boundaries and consent (esp. Senior presentationa Confident Girl Code)

  • Help-seeking and accessing appropriate health services

The content of this program supports  to make healthy, informed food choices and how these are linked to hormones, and their experience of physical, mental and emotional period symptoms

  • How nutrition influences hormones, mood and period symptoms

  • Using food to support energy, focus and emotional regulation across the cycle

The content of this program supports students to develop knowledge, understanding and skills to make active choices and connects these choices with an impact on heir experience of physical, mental and emotional period symptoms

  • Period product safety and hygiene

  • Online safety and image-based harm in the context of body image and consent (Confident Girl Code)

  • When and how to seek medical help for menstrual concerns

Australian Curriculum:
Science Focus

Our programs cover strands;

Science Understanding

Science Endeavour

Science Inquiry Skills

Human body systems & life processes

This content brings real-world application to puberty and reproductive system content (e.g. periods, ovulation, menstrual cycle patterns)

This content helps students understand how and why their bodies change, what menstruation and ovulation actually are, and how these processes relate to health, emotions and daily life. We connect scientific concepts with practical body literacy—supporting students to recognise normal patterns, ask informed questions, and feel confident navigating puberty and periods.

The content deepens scientific understanding of hormones and regulation by explaining how the endocrine system drives menstrual cycles, mood, sleep, stress responses and symptoms such as pain or PMS. Students learn to link hormonal regulation to real-life data—like tracking patterns, interpreting symptoms, and understanding conditions such as endometriosis or PCOS—building both scientific literacy and self-advocacy.

This contet encourages inquiry skills – asking questions, noticing patterns, and using evidence to understand their body

General Capabilities

Literacy

Learning accurate anatomical and menstrual terminology; reading charts; using health language to describe symptoms and ask for help

Hormone and menstrual cycle chart and graph interpretations, correlation and relationships, statistics and percentages

Evaluating health information, challenging myths and stigma, and considering options for self-care and support

Exploring their thoughts, feelings and actions regarding puberty, body image and reproductive health, assessing their personal areas for growth, and planning for growth and improvement in to develop in these areas.  Naming needs and feelings, advocating for oneself with doctors/parents/teachers, and supporting peers

Challenging stigma around menstruation, challenges of menstruation that lead to inequality and period poverty and consent in relationships.

Acknowledging diverse cultural experiences of puberty, menstruation and rites of passage

Cross Curricular

Our programs covers strand;

Sustainability

Sustainability

The program teaches students about reusable period-care options like menstrual cups, period underwear and period swimwear. Students learn how low-waste choices can be inclusive and sustainable. These emerging reusable period products are an example of innovation and creativity in sustainably designed solutions that to reduce present and future impacts on environmental, social and economic systems

WA Curriculum Alignment

Our 'Cycle Wise' programs

HPE Years 4-6

WA CURRICULUM SCOPE & SEQUENCE (2024)
HEALTH & PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Personal, social & community
health

Movement & physical
activity

Personal identity and change
  • Puberty, Periods & Emotional changes
  • Identity, body image & influences
  • Help seeking, body literacy & safety

STRAND: Personal, social & community health

Year 4 

  • Ways to respond positively to challenges and failures, including the use of resilience and persistence

  • Changes associated with puberty

  • Strategies to manage changes associated with puberty

Year 5 

  • Ways that individuals and groups adapt to different contexts and situations
  • Strategies to manage physical, mental/emotional and social changes associated with puberty

Year 6

  • Ways that positive self-identities can develop and change over time
  • Strategies and resources to understand and manage the physical, mental/emotional, and social changes and transitions associated with puberty

STRAND: Personal, social & community health

 

Year 4 

  • Protective behaviours and strategies to remain safe in uncomfortable or unsafe situations

Year 5/6

  • Protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies that can be used when students feel unsafe online
  • Strategies that promote safety
  • Reliable sources of information that inform health and safety decisions:

–  internet-based information, publications and other media

– community health organisations 

STRAND: Personal, social & community health

 

Year 4 

  • Strategies that promote a safe, healthy lifestyle
  • Ways in which health information can influence health decisions and behaviours

Year 5

  • Strategies that promote a safe, healthy lifestyle
  • Health messages that support and maintain an individual’s health, safety and wellbeing

Year 6

  • Strategies that promote a safe, healthy lifestyle
  • Criteria that can be applied to sources of information, including online to assess their credibility
  • Actions that promote and maintain community health, safety and wellbeing

STRAND: Personal, social & community health

 

Year 4 

  • Positive influence of respect, empathy, and the valuing of differences in relationships and in society

  • Strategies to cope with adverse situations and the demands of others
  • Strategies to identify and manage emotions before reacting

Year 5

  • Ways in which inappropriate emotional responses impact on relationships

Year 6

  • Situations in which emotions can influence
    decision-making:

    -with famiy, in peer groups & with friends

STRAND: Movement & physical activity

 

Year 4 

  • Benefits of regular physical activity and physical fitness to health and wellbeing

Year 5

  • Benefits of regular physical activity and physical fitness to physical, mental and emotional wellbeing

Year 6

  • Benefits of regular physical activity and physical fitness to physical, mental and emotional wellbeing

HPE Years 7-10

WA CURRICULUM SCOPE & SEQUENCE (2024)
HEALTH & PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Personal, social & community
health

Personal, social & community
health

Personal identity and change

STRAND: Personal, social & community health

 

Year 7 

  • Feelings, emotions and cultural beliefs and values associated with transitions; practising self-talk and help-seeking strategies to manage these changes

  • Ways to manage physical, emotional, and social changes associated with puberty

Year 8

  • Strategies to cope with and manage the impact of changes and transitions

Year 9

  • Factors that shape personal identities and adolescent health behaviours

  • Strategies for managing changes and transitions

Year 10+ (Senior presentation)

  • Impact of societal and cultural influences on personal identities and health behaviour

STRAND: Personal, social & community health

 

Year 7 

  • Health information, services and
    help-seeking strategies that young people can use in a variety of situations
  • Protective behaviours and
    help-seeking strategies to ensure safety in a variety of situations, including online
  • Strategies to make informed choices to promote health, safety and wellbeing

Year 8

  • Credible health information that can support people in a variety of situations
  • Skills and strategies to promote physical and mental health, safety and wellbeing in various environments

Year 9

  • Actions and strategies to enhance health and wellbeing in a range of environments
  • Strategies are examined, such as communicating choices, seeking, giving and denying consent, and expressing opinions and needs that can support the development of respectful relationships, including sexual relationships

Year 10+ (Senior presentation)

  • Analysis of health information and content related to: body image, processed food & relationships
  • Strategies are examined, such as communicating choices, seeking, giving and denying consent, and expressing opinions and needs that can support the development of respectful relationships, including sexual relationships

STRAND: Personal, social & community health

 

Year 7

  • Strategies to make informed choices to promote health and wellbeing

  • Preventive health practices for young people to avoid and manage risk

  • Health and social benefits of physical activity and recreational pursuits

Year 8

  • Health promotion initiatives which target relevant health, safety and wellbeing issues for young people and ways to manage them

Year 9

  • Implications of attitudes and behaviours on individuals and the community

Year 10+ (Senior Presentation)

  • Health information, support services and media messaging about relationships, lifestyle choices, health decisions and behaviours

  • Health promotion designed to raise awareness, influence attitudes, promote healthy behaviours and increase connection to the community

  • Social, economic and environmental factors that can influence health

STRAND: Personal, social & community health

 

Year 4 

  • Impact of relationships on a person’s wellbeing

  • Factors that influence emotional responses and behaviour

Year 8

  • Strategies for managing the changing nature of peer and family relationships

  • Personal, social and cultural factors that influence emotional responses and behaviour

Year 9

  • Managing emotional responses and resolving conflict in family or social situations

Year 10+ (Senior presentation)

  • Skills and strategies to promote respectful relationships

  • Managing the effects of emotional responses on relationships

STRAND: Movement & physical activity

 

Year 7 

  • Impact of regular participation in physical activities on health, fitness and wellbeing

  • Strategies to increase physical activity levels

Year 8

  • Use of games, recreational activities and outdoor pursuits to enhance activity levels and achieve health and wellbeing outcomes

Year 9

  • Use of games, recreational activities and outdoor pursuits to enhance activity levels and achieve health and wellbeing outcomes

Year 10+ (Senior presentation)

  • Personalised plans for improving or maintaining physical activity levels to improve health, fitness and wellbeing

Science Years 4-6

WA CURRICULUM SCOPE & SEQUENCE (2024)
SCIENCE

Science understandings

Science as a human endeavour

Science inquiry skills

Biological sciences

STRAND: Science Understanding

 

Year 4 

  • Living things have life cycles

Year 5 

  • Living things have structural features and adaptations that help them to survive in their environment

Year 6

  • The growth and survival of living things are affected by physical conditions of their
    environment

STRAND: Science as a human endeavour

Year 4 

  • Science involves making predictions and describing patterns and relationships

Year 5/6

  • Science involves testing predictions by gathering data and using evidence to develop explanations of events

STRAND: Science as a human endeavour

Year 4 

  • Science knowledge helps people to understand the effect of their actions

Year 5/6

  • Scientific knowledge is used to solve problems and inform personal and community decisions

STRAND: Science inquiry skills

Year 4 

  • Use a range of methods including tables and simple column graphs to represent data and to identify patterns and trends.  Compare results with predictions, suggesting possible reasons for findings

Year 5/6

  • Construct and use a range of representations, including tables and graphs, to represent and describe observations, patterns or relationships in data 
    Compare data with predictions and use as evidence in developing explanations

Science Years 7-10

WA CURRICULUM SCOPE & SEQUENCE (2024)
SCIENCE

Science understandings

Science as a human endeavour

Science inquiry skills

Biological sciences

This content connects to: reproductive organs, ovulation, menstruation, and fertility awareness as body literacy.

 

STRAND: Science Understanding

Year 7/8

  • Cells are the basic units of living things with specialised structures and functions.
  • Multi-cellular organisms contain systems of organs carrying out specialised functions that enable them to survive and reproduce
  • Body systems (including endocrine and nervous) coordinate and regulate responses to internal and external changes.

Year 9/10 

  • Multi-cellular organisms rely on coordinated and interdependent internal systems to respond to changes to their environment
  • Body systems (including endocrine and nervous) coordinate and regulate responses to internal and external changes.
    • Scientific knowledge informs personal and community decisions about health.
  • Reproductive cells and organs enable sexual reproduction and continuation of species.
  • Scientific understanding influences decisions about sexual and reproductive health.

 

This content relates to current research of menstrual blood and the research into women’s reproductive health and disease.

 

STRAND: Science as a human endeavour

Year 7/8

  • Scientific knowledge has changed peoples’ understanding of the world and is refined as new
    evidence becomes available

Year 9/10

  • Advances in scientific understanding often rely on technological advances and are often linked
    to scientific discoveries

This content relates to past inequalities in women’s health research and funding, which has lead to a current focus on women’s health issues.

 

STRAND: Science as a human endeavour

Year 7/8 

  • People use science understanding and skills in their occupations and these have influenced the
    development of practices in areas of human activity

Year 9/10

  • Values and needs of contemporary society can influence the focus of scientific research

STRAND: Science inquiry skills

 

Year 7/8

  • Construct and use a range of representations, including graphs, keys and models to represent
    and analyse patterns or relationships in data using digital technologies as appropriate

  • Summarise data, from students’ own investigations and secondary sources, and use scientific
    understanding to identify relationships and draw conclusions based on evidence

Year 9/10

  • Analyse patterns and trends in data, including describing relationships between variables and
    identifying inconsistencies
  • Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence

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Meet Katrina Christian

Founder, Teacher & Menstrual Health Educator

With years of experience working in schools (and raising a tween and a teen herself), Katrina knows just how powerful it is when girls are taught to trust their bodies. She specialises in girls’ wellbeing, with a focus on the knowledge, wisdom, and power of the menstrual cycle.

 Her presentations are real, honest, and empowering—because confidence starts with understanding.

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