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Personal & Social Development // Responsible Decision-Making

Understand that ethical decisions are not always black and white — that sometimes there is no perfect answer and reasonable people can disagree — and practise…

Personal & Social Development // Responsible Decision-Making

Understand peer pressure — the influence friends and peers can have on your choices and behaviour — and develop strategies for resisting pressure to do…

Personal & Social Development // Responsible Decision-Making

Understand their rights and responsibilities as a member of a community — that everyone has a right to be treated with respect and to feel safe, and that with…

Personal & Social Development // Self-Awareness

Know and use the vocabulary of self-reflection — self-awareness, reflect, pattern, trigger, assumption, impact, perspective, and notice — and understand that…

Personal & Social Development // Self-Awareness

Understand that feelings and actions are separate — you can feel something strongly without having to act on it straight away

Personal & Social Development // Self-Awareness

Notice patterns in your own reactions — 'I tend to respond like this when I'm tired, left out, or put on the spot'

Personal & Social Development // Self-Awareness

Reflect on how your behaviour lands on others — consider not just what you intended but what the actual impact was on the other person

Personal & Social Development // Self-Awareness

Notice when your first reading of a social situation might be wrong — your assumptions about why someone acted a certain way are not always facts

Personal & Social Development // Self-Regulation & Resilience

Know and use the key words for managing big feelings — calm, strategy, cope, settle, patience, overwhelmed, and breathe — and understand that having words for…

Personal & Social Development // Self-Regulation & Resilience

Break a challenging task into smaller, manageable steps rather than feeling overwhelmed by the whole thing — and celebrate progress along the way

Personal & Social Development // Self-Regulation & Resilience

Understand the concept of a growth mindset — that abilities and intelligence can grow with effort, practice, and good strategies — as opposed to a fixed mindset…

Personal & Social Development // Self-Regulation & Resilience

Know and use the vocabulary of resilience and self-management — including regulate, resilience, growth mindset, fixed mindset, self-talk, trigger, setback…

Personal & Social Development // Self-Regulation & Resilience

Use positive self-talk to manage difficult situations — replacing unhelpful thoughts like 'I'm stupid' or 'I'll never be able to do this' with encouraging ones…

Personal & Social Development // Self-Regulation & Resilience

Understand that different situations require different coping strategies — what works for anger might not work for sadness, and what helps at school might be…

Personal & Social Development // Self-Regulation & Resilience

Reflect on which self-regulation and coping strategies work best for them personally, building a 'toolkit' of approaches they can draw on in different…

Personal & Social Development // Self-Regulation & Resilience

Understand resilience as the ability to recover from setbacks, adapt to difficult circumstances, and keep going — recognising that resilience is a skill that…

Personal & Social Development // Self-Regulation & Resilience

Set realistic personal goals, create a simple plan to achieve them, monitor their own progress, and adjust their approach when things aren't working

Personal & Social Development // Self-Regulation & Resilience

Manage their own time and attention effectively — prioritising tasks, minimising distractions, and maintaining focus on important work even when it's not the…

Life Skills // Entrepreneurship

It costs money to make things (costs/expenses); you earn money by selling them (revenue); if revenue is more than costs, that's profit; if costs are more…

Life Skills // Entrepreneurship

Before starting a business, making a simple plan: what will I make or do, who will buy it, what do I need, how much will it cost, and what price will I charge?

Life Skills // Entrepreneurship

Not every business idea works; entrepreneurs try, fail, learn, and try again; iteration and resilience as core entrepreneurial skills; famous failure-to-success…

Life Skills // Entrepreneurship

Most businesses need more than one person; working together, dividing tasks, and using different people's strengths; the value of teamwork in business

Life Skills // Entrepreneurship

Where business ideas come from; spotting everyday problems and thinking of solutions; the difference between inventing something new and improving something…

Life Skills // Entrepreneurship

Customer service, fairness, and honesty in business; keeping promises to customers; why being trustworthy matters for repeat business and reputation