Respectful Relationships (RRRR)

Camperdown College implements the Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (RRRR) program as a whole-school approach to supporting student wellbeing and positive relationships. Developed by the Victorian Department of Education, this program helps schools build a culture of respect, positive behaviour, and inclusion.

Through the RRRR program, students develop the knowledge and skills needed to build healthy, respectful relationships, strengthen resilience, and enhance their social and emotional wellbeing. Lessons are designed to be age-appropriate and support students to better understand emotions, manage challenges, solve problems, seek help when needed, and interact positively with others.

Students explore eight key focus areas:

• Emotional Literacy: Supports students to understand, express and manage their own emotions, while recognising and responding appropriately to the feelings of others.
• Personal Strengths: Students learn to identify and name their own strengths and positive qualities, recognise these in others, and draw on them when discussing and responding to challenges.
• Positive Coping: Students learn to identify and discuss different coping strategies, developing the language and skills to choose positive ways of managing challenges.
• Problem-Solving: Students develop problem-solving skills through activities that strengthen their critical and creative thinking, enabling them to make better decisions in everyday life and manage challenging situations effectively.
• Stress Management: Teaches students positive approaches to stress management, helping them recognise their own signs of stress and develop strategies to cope effectively, to manage challenging situations and build their resilience.
• Help-Seeking: Teaches students the importance of seeking help and supporting peers, using scenarios to recognise when and how to reach out to trusted adults and friends.
• Identity: Students learn to respect differences. They explore how identity influence attitudes and behaviours and understand the importance of respect and equality.
• Positive Relations: Students understand the importance of respectful relationships. They learn to set boundaries, solve problems, and seek help, with a focus on preventing gender-based violence and promoting safe, respectful communities.

Participation in the RRRR program helps equip students with the skills and confidence to develop safe, respectful, and positive relationships, both now and into the future. By embedding these values across classroom learning and the wider school community, the program supports students to feel safe, valued, and empowered to contribute to a respectful and inclusive school environment.