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Personal & Social Development // Friendship & Cooperation

Know and use the vocabulary of healthy communication and conflict — assertive, passive, aggressive, compromise, conflict, resolution, mediate, bystander…

Personal & Social Development // Friendship & Cooperation

Understand different roles people play in groups — leader, supporter, mediator, idea-generator — and recognise that effective groups need a mix of roles, not…

Personal & Social Development // Responsible Decision-Making

Know and use the vocabulary of making decisions and keeping safe — choice, consequence, rule, safe, fair, honest, trusted adult, and right and wrong — and…

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 // 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-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…