Relationships and Sexuality Education

Ways to help at home:

• Reinforce public and private by displaying visuals (attached below) in your home.
• Compliment your discussion by using the signs of ‘private’ and ‘public’.
• Refer to the language of public and private frequently. Pose appropriately pitched questions at your child’s level by providing relevant examples e.g. playing with iPad, bathing, eating breakfast with family/alone, followed by a simple question: Is it public or private? Talk to your child’s teacher if you would like more advice on this. For AAC users, provide choice for yes/no responses or open-ended questions. Tell me a place that is public? Tell me a place that is private?
• In supporting learning covered so far, your child’s bedroom is considered private. (for students sharing bedrooms, this means when your son/daughter is alone in the bedroom)
• When doors are closed your family bathroom is private.
• All shared living spaces are public.
• Knock on the door before entering your child’s bedroom/bathroom and verbalise your presence to indicate that you are entering their private space.
• Close bathroom doors when in use to represent and respect the users privacy. If you can support this at home it will help with generalisation of learning to new environments.
• Provide opportunities for independence and privacy when showering and changing where appropriate.

Discuss these concepts with your child using the consistent language of these key terms.

Signs to support:

Right-click on an image and choose “Save image as…” to download it to print and use at home