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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…

Personal & Social Development // Self-Regulation & Resilience

Use simple calming strategies when feeling upset or overwhelmed — such as taking deep breaths, counting to ten, or going to a quiet space — and understand that…

Personal & Social Development // Self-Regulation & Resilience

Understand that making mistakes is a normal part of learning and that everyone — including adults — makes mistakes, and begin to see mistakes as opportunities…

Personal & Social Development // Self-Regulation & Resilience

Understand that change is a normal part of life — such as starting school, getting a new teacher, a new baby arriving, or moving house — and identify simple…

Personal & Social Development // Self-Regulation & Resilience

Wait for things they want without becoming very distressed — practising patience and delayed gratification in everyday situations like waiting their turn…

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…

Personal & Social Development // Self-Regulation & Resilience

Distinguish between eustress (the productive, motivating kind of stress) and distress (harmful, overwhelming stress); explain the physiological stress response…

Personal & Social Development // Self-Regulation & Resilience

Understand habit formation through the cue-routine-reward loop and how to design new habits intentionally; distinguish intrinsic motivation (doing something for…

Personal & Social Development // Self-Regulation & Resilience

Understand that facing serious challenges can lead to genuine growth in three domains: new perspectives on life, improved relationships, and a strengthened…