Health and physical education / Year 3 and 4 / Personal, Social and Community Health / Being healthy, safe and active

Curriculum content descriptions

Explore how success, challenge and failure strengthen identities (ACPPS033)

Elaborations
  • exploring factors that support personal achievement and development of personal identities, such as the influence of family, friends and school
  • suggesting ways to respond positively to challenges and failure, such as using self-talk, early help-seeking behaviours, and optimistic thinking
  • persisting with new activities and examining how success through persistence can have positive outcomes and strengthen identities
  • explaining how meeting challenges makes them feel good about themselves and builds confidence to try new things
  • talking about how overcoming a challenge or adversity can unite a group of diverse people
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
ScOT terms

Personal identity,  Achievement,  Resilience

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Perseverance and personal best

Through this resource, students will be able to define the word perseverance and to make and set goals. They will be able to list examples of things one can do to show perseverance. Extension activities about perseverance can be used in art, drama and literature activities.

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Having a positive attitude

In this resource, students will be able to give positive statements about themselves and others. They explain how a positive attitude changes how we feel/act and how to turn a negative thought or experience into a positive thought. Students will learn about the importance of a growth mindset through positive self-talk and ...

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Responding to challenging situations

Students identify and apply resilience skills needed to respond positively to challenges and failure such as ways to calm the body; using self-talk, optimistic thinking and help-seeking behaviours.

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My life from birth to now

Students identify important personal milestones from birth to the present, and reflect on how personal achievements and challenges have impacted and influenced their lives.

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Resilience

Students examine how success, challenges and failures strengthen their personal identity.

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Years 3 and 4: Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships

This set of learning materials covers eight topics of Social and Emotional Learning across the Years 3 and 4 levels of schooling. Topics include Emotional Literacy; Personal strengths; Positive Coping; Problem Solving; Stress Management; Help Seeking; Gender and Identity; and Positive Gender Relationships.

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Being resilient is brilliant

This is a multistage unit of learning focused on empowering students to develop resilience that can support them to respond positively to different situations.

Interactive

‘Physical Education – Essential skills for primary teachers’ online course

The aim of this online refresher course is to enhance the confidence and competence of generalist primary school teachers in delivering purposeful and engaging PE. The course aims to improve student learning in schools by addressing critical challenges. It tackles the decline in physical education and the rise of sedentary ...