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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

How to tell they’ve got it

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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?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on
Words for Big Feelingsages 5–8Coping with change draws on vocabulary like 'cope', 'strategy', and 'settle'
Coping with Life Changesthis skill · ages 5–7
Unlocks
Resilience and Bouncing Backages 9–11Resilience concept builds on coping with change

solid = must come firstdashed = helps

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

AC9HP4P02medium confidenceYear 3–4 · Personal, social and community health

plan, rehearse and reflect on strategies to cope with the different changes and transitions they experience, such as the changes associated with puberty

AC9HS1K02medium confidenceYear 1 · Knowledge and understanding

continuity and change between aspects of their daily lives and their parents’ and grandparents’ childhoods

AC9HS3K01low confidenceYear 3 · Knowledge and understanding

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

PHE-IHW-01low confidencePDHPE K-6 · Early Stage 1
PH1-IHW-01low confidencePDHPE K-6 · Stage 1

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2HP4P02high confidenceHealth and Physical Education · Levels 3 and 4 · Personal, Social and Community Health – Health Education strand
VC2HP2P02medium confidenceHealth and Physical Education · Levels 1 and 2 · Personal, Social and Community Health – Health Education strand
VC2HH2S06low confidenceHistory · Foundation to Level 2 · Historical Concepts and Skills 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.

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