Year 10 Health – Term 4 (WA Curriculum): Emotional Intelligence in Relationships

What this unit covers

In Term 4, Year 10 Health in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Emotional Intelligence in Relationships”.

Students explore how emotional responses impact relationships and develop skills to recognize and manage emotions effectively in interpersonal interactions.

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. Understanding Emotional Responses and Their Origins
2. Identifying Extreme Emotions and Their Warning Signs
3. How Anger Affects Relationships and Communication
4. The Impact of Fear and Anxiety on Social Connections
5. Recognizing Emotional Cues in Others
6. Consequences of Emotional Blindness in Friendships
7. Managing Intense Emotions Before They Damage Relationships
8. Developing Empathy to Strengthen Interpersonal Bonds
9. Repairing Relationships After Emotional Conflicts
10. Building Long-term Emotional Intelligence Skills

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 4

WA terms run roughly 9–11 weeks, and in 2026 Term 4 runs from Monday 12 October to Thursday 17 December — 10 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.