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Personal & Social DevelopmentFriendship & Cooperationusually ages 5–7

Asking for Help

Ask for help when they need it — from a friend, teacher, or family member — and understand that asking for help is a sign of strength, not weakness

How to tell they’ve got it

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If your child is stuck on something at school or feeling worried about something, will they ask a teacher or friend for help rather than struggling in silence?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on
Asking Questionsages 4–11Asking for help benefits from curriculum questioning skills
Listening to Othersages 5–7Asking for help benefits from knowing how to communicate with others
Vocabulary: working with othersages 5–8Asking for help and working with others uses the vocabulary of team and cooperation
Asking for Helpthis skill · ages 5–7
Unlocks
Nothing on the map depends on this yet.

solid = must come firstdashed = helps

Curriculum alignment

Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).

Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1).

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2HPFP06low confidenceHealth and Physical Education · Foundation · Personal, Social and Community Health – Health Education strand
VC2HP2P06low confidenceHealth and Physical Education · Levels 1 and 2 · Personal, Social and Community Health – Health Education strand
VC2HP4P08low confidenceHealth and Physical Education · Levels 3 and 4 · Personal, Social and Community Health – Health Education strand

These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.

Nearby on the map

Listening to Othersages 5–7 Makes someone a good friendages 5–7 Taking Turns and Sharingages 5–7 Vocabulary: working with othersages 5–8

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