Year 8 Health – Term 4 (WA Curriculum): Building Positive Relationships and Interactions

What this unit covers

In Term 4, Year 8 Health in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Building Positive Relationships and Interactions”.

Students explore how personal, social and cultural factors influence relationships, examine the impacts of bullying and harassment, understand power dynamics, and develop skills for positive interactions with others.

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 What Makes Healthy Relationships
2. Recognizing Bullying and Harassment in Face-to-Face Interactions
3. Identifying Cyberbullying and Online Harassment
4. Exploring the Psychological Impact of Bullying on Mental Health
5. Examining How Culture and Background Shape Our Emotional Responses
6. Investigating Power Imbalances in Relationships
7. Analyzing How Gender Stereotypes Influence Relationship Dynamics
8. Understanding How Past Experiences Affect Our Interactions
9. Developing Strategies to Support Others Experiencing Bullying
10. Creating Action Plans for Building Respectful Relationships

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.