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Personal & Social Development // Responsible Decision-Making

Understand that actions have consequences — that what you choose to do affects both yourself and other people — and begin to think about what might happen…

Personal & Social Development // Responsible Decision-Making

Know the difference between right and wrong in familiar everyday situations — understanding basic rules about honesty, not hurting others, respecting others'…

Personal & Social Development // Responsible Decision-Making

Understand why rules and agreements exist — that they help keep people safe, make things fair, and help groups work well together — and follow agreed rules…

Personal & Social Development // Responsible Decision-Making

Keep themselves safe in everyday situations — knowing basic safety rules about roads, strangers, water, and the internet — and understanding who their trusted…

Personal & Social Development // Responsible Decision-Making

Use a simple decision-making process when faced with a choice — stopping to think, identifying the options, considering the consequences of each option, and…

Personal & Social Development // Responsible Decision-Making

Know and use the vocabulary of ethics and citizenship — bullying, cyberbullying, bystander, upstander, peer pressure, digital citizenship, rights…

Personal & Social Development // Responsible Decision-Making

Understand the bystander role — that when someone witnesses unkind or unfair behaviour, they have a choice: they can be a passive bystander (doing nothing)…

Personal & Social Development // Responsible Decision-Making

Understand what bullying is — repeated behaviour intended to hurt someone, including physical, verbal, social (exclusion, spreading rumours), and cyberbullying…

Personal & Social Development // Responsible Decision-Making

Understand basic digital citizenship — being kind online, protecting personal information, recognising that people behind screens are real people with real…

Personal & Social Development // Responsible Decision-Making

Evaluate the ethical dimensions of real-world issues they encounter — such as environmental responsibility, fairness in sport, digital ethics, or social justice…

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 // Responsible Decision-Making

Distinguish between risk (decisions with known probabilities) and uncertainty (decisions with unknown outcomes); identify cognitive biases that distort risk…

Personal & Social Development // Responsible Decision-Making

Understand the ethics of online identity and the importance of consistency between who you are online and offline; explain how recommendation algorithms and…

Personal & Social Development // Responsible Decision-Making

Introduce the three main ethical frameworks: consequentialism (judge actions by outcomes and overall welfare), deontology (judge actions by adherence to rules…

Personal & Social Development // Self-Awareness

Notice what you are feeling and put a name to it — being able to label an emotion is the first step to understanding and managing it

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-Awareness

Reflect on your own growth over time — the things that challenge you now are not fixed, and noticing how you have already changed builds genuine self-knowledge

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…