Taking a day out from their school routine, the students participated in Love Bites; a program designed by the National Association for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (NAPCAN) and aimed at educating young people about respectful relationships and reducing the incidence of relationship violence in a community.

Delivered by trained facilitators Desley Johnson, Women's Health Nurse at Cowra Community Health and Social Worker at Cowra Community Health, Danielle Allen, the program was well-received by the students.

"They're a great group of kids and they've participated really well," Ms Allen said.

"It's all about giving young people skills to deal with domestic violence and sexual assault in their own relationships.

While a crucial aim of Love Bites is focusing on primary prevention of relationship violence, Ms Allen said the students were particularly interested in issues surrounding technology.

"They really wanted to clarify the laws around sending images on their phones," she said.

While Ms Allen said each student left the day with a handout containing the most recent laws on sending sexual images, the message Love Bites delivered was clear.

"Just don't take the photo," she said.

"The law is if you take a sexual image of yourself or someone under 18 you could be charged with child pornography and your name goes on a child offender list forever."

Ms Allen said students were shocked to learn the latest statistics highlighting one in three girls and one in five boys in Australia under 18 experience some sort of unwanted sexual experience.

Now in its fourth year, Ms Allen said she is hoping the Love Bites program will be picked up by other local schools.

"We would like the program to go to all schools in Cowra, it's a really important program," she said.

"The facilitators do a two day training course to be able to run the program and it's based on the latest research and statistics- we're not just making this up."

The workshop ended with a creative afternoon session, as students unveiling their artistic pieces featuring messages encouraging safe relationships.

"We hope to use the images to do an exhibition, possibly at the school," Ms Allen said.

The Love Bites facilitators thanked Cowra High School, Cowra Community Health, Cowra Family Support Services, Cowra Court Support workers, Headspace, Centrelink, Cowra Neighbourbood Centre and Cowra police for their support, with a special thankyou going to Cowra PCYC for hosting the workshop and Cowra Council for their financial support.