Personal & social development // Area
Responsible Decision-Making
Age coverage
Ages 5 to 14
Starts at age 5 // 5 topics
Starting at age 5
Your child is learning to make good choices — understanding right from wrong, keeping themselves safe, thinking about consequences, and following rules because they understand why they matter.
- Vocabulary: making decisions and keeping safe
Know and use the vocabulary of making decisions and keeping safe — choice, consequence, rule, safe, fair, honest, trusted adult, and right and wrong — and…
Ages 5 to 8Language - Actions and Their Consequences
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…
Ages 5 to 7Concept - Right and Wrong Choices
Know the difference between right and wrong in familiar everyday situations — understanding basic rules about honesty, not hurting others, respecting others'…
Ages 5 to 7Concept - Rules and agreements exist
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…
Ages 5 to 7Concept - Everyday Safety Awareness
Keep themselves safe in everyday situations — knowing basic safety rules about roads, strangers, water, and the internet — and understanding who their trusted…
Ages 5 to 7Method
Starts at age 7 // 5 topics
Starting at age 7
Your child is learning to make thoughtful choices and stand up for what's right — understanding bullying and digital citizenship, developing the courage to be an upstander, and using a thinking process before making decisions.
- Stop, Think, Then Choose
Use a simple decision-making process when faced with a choice — stopping to think, identifying the options, considering the consequences of each option, and…
Ages 7 to 9Method - Vocabulary: ethics and citizenship
Know and use the vocabulary of ethics and citizenship — bullying, cyberbullying, bystander, upstander, peer pressure, digital citizenship, rights…
Ages 7 to 11Language - Bystanders and Upstanders
Understand the bystander role — that when someone witnesses unkind or unfair behaviour, they have a choice: they can be a passive bystander (doing nothing)…
Ages 7 to 9Concept - Understanding Bullying
Understand what bullying is — repeated behaviour intended to hurt someone, including physical, verbal, social (exclusion, spreading rumours), and cyberbullying…
Ages 7 to 9Concept - Basic digital citizenship
Understand basic digital citizenship — being kind online, protecting personal information, recognising that people behind screens are real people with real…
Ages 7 to 9Concept
Starts at age 9 // 4 topics
Starting at age 9
Your child is learning to navigate peer pressure and understand their rights and responsibilities in communities, while developing skills to think through ethical dilemmas from multiple perspectives.
- Ethics in Real-World Issues
Evaluate the ethical dimensions of real-world issues they encounter — such as environmental responsibility, fairness in sport, digital ethics, or social justice…
Ages 9 to 11Thinking skill - Difficult Ethical Choices
Understand that ethical decisions are not always black and white — that sometimes there is no perfect answer and reasonable people can disagree — and practise…
Ages 9 to 11Concept - Peer Pressure and Resisting It
Understand peer pressure — the influence friends and peers can have on your choices and behaviour — and develop strategies for resisting pressure to do…
Ages 9 to 11Concept - Community Rights and Responsibilities
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…
Ages 9 to 11Concept
Starts at age 11 // 1 topic
Starting at age 11
- Risk, Uncertainty, and Cognitive Bias
Distinguish between risk (decisions with known probabilities) and uncertainty (decisions with unknown outcomes); identify cognitive biases that distort risk…
Ages 11 to 12Concept
Starts at age 12 // 1 topic
Starting at age 12
- Online Identity and Misinformation
Understand the ethics of online identity and the importance of consistency between who you are online and offline; explain how recommendation algorithms and…
Ages 12 to 13Concept
Starts at age 13 // 1 topic
Starting at age 13
- Ethical Frameworks and Moral Reasoning
Introduce the three main ethical frameworks: consequentialism (judge actions by outcomes and overall welfare), deontology (judge actions by adherence to rules…
Ages 13 to 14Thinking skill