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• Personal and Social Capability: Foundation Level achievement standards

  By the end of Foundation Level, students identify and express a range of emotions in their interactions with others. They recognise personal qualities and achievements by describing activities they enjoy at school and home, noting their strengths. They recognise that attempting new and challenging...

  Level description | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Foundation Level

• Personal and Social Capability: Foundation Level description

  In Foundation, this curriculum focuses on enabling students to interact and play constructively with others and to establish friendships with peers. Students develop a vocabulary to describe the emotions they experience when interacting with others. Students begin to develop an understanding that...

  Level description | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability

• VCPSCSE002

  Identify their likes and dislikes, needs and wants, abilities and strengths

  Elaborations

  • discussing and listing individual likes, interests and dislikes
  • comparing needs and wants in daily life by asking the question ‘could you live without this?’
  • exploring abilities, strengths and achievements and share with others

  VCPSCSE002 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Foundation Level | Self-Awareness and Management | Development of resilience

• VCPSCSE001

  Develop a vocabulary and practise the expression of emotions to describe how they feel in different familiar situations

  Elaborations

  • developing a list of alternative words to describe an emotion such as happy, sad or angry
  • responding to stimulus showing familiar situations and describe the emotions displayed
  • identifying how characters feel in stories/movies and the range of words that could be used to describe their emotions

  VCPSCSE001 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Foundation Level | Self-Awareness and Management | Recognition and expression of emotions

• VCPSCSE003

  Recognise that problems or challenges are a normal part of life and that there are actions that can be undertaken to manage problems

  Elaborations

  • developing a list of responses to the prompt ‘It is important to keep trying because...’
  • describing a challenge you may have faced in the last week, such as making a new friend, and create a list of actions that could assist
  • developing a list of challenges that a student in Prep may face this year, such as learning to swim or looking after their possessions, and discuss why it is important to keep trying

  VCPSCSE003 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Foundation Level | Self-Awareness and Management | Development of resilience

• VCPSCSO005

  Practise the skills required to include others and make friends with peers, teachers and other adults

  Elaborations

  • discussing what it means to be friendly and make a list of the qualities of a friend
  • role playing a range of scenarios such as saying hello to a new student in your class or thanking an adult for helping you
  • describing how it feels when talking with teachers and other adults

  VCPSCSO005 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Foundation Level | Social Awareness and Management | Relationships and diversity

• VCPSCSO007

  Use appropriate language to describe what happens and how they feel when experiencing positive interactions or conflict

  Elaborations

  • describing a range of interactions such as who, what, why and how did it make them feel
  • reflecting on how it feels when someone does not share equipment or play spaces
  • practising the language used to describe positive emotions experienced
  • recognising negative emotions resulting from conflict

  VCPSCSO007 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Foundation Level | Social Awareness and Management | Collaboration

• VCPSCSO004

  Identify a range of groups to which they, their family and members of their class belong

  Elaborations

  • discussing the features/characteristics of the groups that they and their families belong to by sharing stories, artefacts and images
  • sharing descriptions of groups that they belong to
  • surveying class members to show that there are many ways to group people, such as students who own a pet, walk to school or who like ice-cream

  VCPSCSO004 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Foundation Level | Social Awareness and Management | Relationships and diversity

• VCPSCSO006

  Name and practise basic skills required to work collaboratively with peers

  Elaborations

  • demonstrating how to listen to others, showing interest and support
  • sharing equipment or practicing taking turns in a game
  • demonstrating attentiveness to others by asking further questions in discussion

  VCPSCSO006 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Foundation Level | Social Awareness and Management | Collaboration