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Personal & Social Development // Emotional Literacy

Understand how the amygdala triggers emotional responses and how the prefrontal cortex (still developing in adolescence) regulates them; explain why stress…

Personal & Social Development // Empathy & Social Awareness

Understand the impact of prejudice and discrimination on individuals and communities — that treating people unfairly because of their identity causes real harm…

Personal & Social Development // Empathy & Social Awareness

Recognise stereotypes — oversimplified beliefs about groups of people based on gender, race, age, or other characteristics — and understand that stereotypes are…

Personal & Social Development // Empathy & Social Awareness

Understand that the world contains many cultures, traditions, and belief systems, and that learning about others' perspectives enriches our own understanding…

Personal & Social Development // Empathy & Social Awareness

Move beyond 'treating everyone the same' to understand that structural advantages and disadvantages exist regardless of individual effort or intention; explore…

Personal & Social Development // Friendship & Cooperation

Understand subtext, indirect communication, and social cues in adolescent peer groups; analyse the psychology of in-group and out-group dynamics and why…

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 // 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

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

Life Skills // Entrepreneurship

Being honest, being fair, treating workers well, not harming the environment; what makes a 'good' business; whether businesses should care about more than…

Life Skills // Entrepreneurship

Where products come from before they reach the customer; raw materials, making, transporting, and selling; the journey of a product from start to finish

Life Skills // Entrepreneurship

What happens when a small business grows; making more products, hiring people, reaching more customers; the challenges and opportunities of scaling

Life Skills // Entrepreneurship

Stories of real entrepreneurs who started young: Mikaila Ulmer (Me & the Bees), Moziah Bridges (Mo's Bows), Cory Nieves (Mr. Cory's Cookies); what makes someone…

Life Skills // Entrepreneurship

Using business skills to help others or solve social and environmental problems; making money AND making a difference; examples of social enterprises

Life Skills // Money & Finance

Recognising financial scams and tricks; phishing emails and fake websites; protecting personal and financial information online; 'if it seems too good to be…

Life Skills // Money & Finance

Why countries trade with each other; imports and exports; how goods travel around the world; that different countries use different currencies

Life Skills // Money & Finance

What an economy is; producers and consumers; supply and demand; why prices change; the basics of how markets work

Life Skills // Money & Finance

Setting longer-term financial goals; planning and prioritising spending; how saving regularly adds up over time; the value of thinking ahead with money

Life Skills // Money & Finance

What borrowing money means; that loans must be repaid with interest; what credit is; why too much debt can be risky; responsible borrowing

Life Skills // Money & Finance

What taxes are and why people pay them; how taxes fund schools, hospitals, roads, and emergency services; that governments decide how to spend tax money

Electronics // Circuits

Electricity flows only around an unbroken loop from one side of a power source, through components, and back to the other side. A switch works by opening and…