Health and physical education / Foundation / Personal, Social and Community Health / Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing

Curriculum content descriptions

Practise personal and social skills to interact positively with others (ACPPS004)

Elaborations
  • accessing stories about characters who have been excluded from a group and discussing how the character could deal with the situation
  • discussing how it feels to be included in activities
  • practising personal skills such as expressing needs, wants and feelings, active listening and showing self-discipline to be an effective group member
  • listening and responding to others when participating in physical activities to achieve agreed outcomes
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
ScOT terms

Friendship,  Social competence

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Kindness

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Integrity

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