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Friendships change over time

Understand that friendships change over time — that it's normal for friends to drift apart or for new friendships to form — and develop strategies for making new friends and handling friendship changes without feeling like something is wrong with them

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Try this together

If your child's best friend starts spending more time with someone else, can they handle it without falling apart — understanding that friendships shift and they can make new friends too?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on
Makes someone a good friendages 5–7Understanding friendship changes builds on knowing what makes a good friend
Resolving Disagreements with Friendsages 7–9Navigating friendship changes benefits from conflict resolution skills
Friendships change over timethis skill · ages 7–9
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Curriculum alignment

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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

VC2HP4P02low 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.

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