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Years 7 and 8
Typically, at this stage, students are starting high school years and are presented with new organisational and personal challenges. Relationships with friends and peers become increasingly important as young people face more complex life decisions. Young people develop a stronger set of values and morals. The internet, mobile phones and social media can influence how young people communicate and collaborate with friends and learn about the world. Students can learn how to take positive action and examine factors that influence people’s beliefs, attitudes, opportunities, decisions, behaviours and actions. Through personal reflection, they increasingly develop the capacity to read and understand other people’s emotions. They benefit from a range of help-seeking strategies that support them to access and evaluate information and services. They view relationship issues from a local to a global scale.