Coping with Life Changes
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 strategies that help them cope with changes
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When something changes in your child's life — like getting a new teacher at school — can they talk about how it makes them feel and think of ways to help themselves adjust?
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Curriculum alignment
Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).
Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 2 NSW · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
plan, rehearse and reflect on strategies to cope with the different changes and transitions they experience, such as the changes associated with puberty
continuity and change between aspects of their daily lives and their parents’ and grandparents’ childhoods
causes and effects of changes to the local community, and how people who may be from diverse backgrounds have contributed to these changes
NSW syllabus codes & stages only
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
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.