Cranbrook Academy Event

On 3rd August we will be having our very first online Academy event. Katrina Marson will also be speaking to various groups of our school community throughout the day on the topic of sex and relationship education.

Katrina has been researching the protective power of sex-ed to prevent sexual violence and safeguard sexual wellbeing for a decade.  She has been a criminal lawyer since 2013, primarily in the area of family violence and sexual offences. On secondment for two years, Katrina led the implementation of the Child Sexual Abuse Royal Commission’s criminal justice recommendations in the ACT before returning to the ACT DPP as a senior prosecutor in the Sexual Offences Unit. She undertook a Churchill Fellowship in 2019 researching the implementation of relationships and sexuality education overseas; her findings were published in the report Ignorance is not Innocence. Katrina is the lead researcher of primary prevention at Rape and Sexual Assault Research and Advocacy and is the President of the Relationships and Sexuality Education Alliance ACT. Her first book, Legitimate Sexpectations: the power of Sex-Ed, was published in 2022.

The webinar; Sex and Relationship Education: What’s the point will be the first online Academy event at 4.30pm. Parents and community members can sign up here. This is an important and timely topic for our students and the local community to understand as the education of sex and relationships is vital in promoting positive relationships.