Personal & social development // Area
Self-Regulation & Resilience
Age coverage
Ages 5 to 14
Starts at age 5 // 5 topics
Starting at age 5
Your child is learning important life skills for managing emotions and challenges — using calming strategies when upset, practising patience, adapting to changes, and understanding that mistakes are a normal part of learning.
- Words for Big Feelings
Know and use the key words for managing big feelings — calm, strategy, cope, settle, patience, overwhelmed, and breathe — and understand that having words for…
Ages 5 to 8Language - Simple Calming Strategies
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…
Ages 5 to 7Method - Learning from Mistakes
Understand that making mistakes is a normal part of learning and that everyone — including adults — makes mistakes, and begin to see mistakes as opportunities…
Ages 5 to 7Concept - Coping with Life Changes
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…
Ages 5 to 7Concept - Patience and Delayed Gratification
Wait for things they want without becoming very distressed — practising patience and delayed gratification in everyday situations like waiting their turn…
Ages 5 to 7Method
Starts at age 7 // 5 topics
Starting at age 7
Your child is learning that they can get better at things through practice and effort, while developing strategies to stay positive and break big challenges into smaller, manageable steps.
- Breaking Tasks into Steps
Break a challenging task into smaller, manageable steps rather than feeling overwhelmed by the whole thing — and celebrate progress along the way
Ages 7 to 9Method - Growth Mindset
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…
Ages 7 to 9Concept - Vocabulary: resilience and self
Know and use the vocabulary of resilience and self-management — including regulate, resilience, growth mindset, fixed mindset, self-talk, trigger, setback…
Ages 7 to 10Language - Positive Self-Talk
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…
Ages 7 to 9Method - Choosing the Right Coping Strategy
Understand that different situations require different coping strategies — what works for anger might not work for sadness, and what helps at school might be…
Ages 7 to 9Concept
Starts at age 9 // 4 topics
Starting at age 9
Your child is developing important life skills — learning to manage their emotions and behavior, set and work toward goals, and build resilience to bounce back from challenges and setbacks.
- Personal Coping Toolkit
Reflect on which self-regulation and coping strategies work best for them personally, building a 'toolkit' of approaches they can draw on in different…
Ages 9 to 11Thinking skill - Resilience and Bouncing Back
Understand resilience as the ability to recover from setbacks, adapt to difficult circumstances, and keep going — recognising that resilience is a skill that…
Ages 9 to 11Concept - Personal Goal-Setting
Set realistic personal goals, create a simple plan to achieve them, monitor their own progress, and adjust their approach when things aren't working
Ages 9 to 11Method - Time and Attention Management
Manage their own time and attention effectively — prioritising tasks, minimising distractions, and maintaining focus on important work even when it's not the…
Ages 9 to 11Method
Starts at age 11 // 1 topic
Starting at age 11
- Good Stress and Bad Stress
Distinguish between eustress (the productive, motivating kind of stress) and distress (harmful, overwhelming stress); explain the physiological stress response…
Ages 11 to 12Concept
Starts at age 12 // 1 topic
Starting at age 12
- Habits and Motivation
Understand habit formation through the cue-routine-reward loop and how to design new habits intentionally; distinguish intrinsic motivation (doing something for…
Ages 12 to 13Concept
Starts at age 13 // 1 topic
Starting at age 13
- Growth Through Adversity
Understand that facing serious challenges can lead to genuine growth in three domains: new perspectives on life, improved relationships, and a strengthened…
Ages 13 to 14Thinking skill