How can you tell they’ve got it: Makes someone a good friend?

If they’ve got it, you’ll see things like: List at least four qualities of a good friend; Identify unfriendly behaviour in a story or real situation; Reflect on a time they were a good friend and explain what they did. Or just try it together: Can your child describe what makes a good friend and recognise when someone — including themselves — isn't being a good friend?

Personal & Social Development Friendship & Cooperation Ages 5–7

Makes someone a good friend

Your child knows what makes a good friend: being kind, honest, and including others. They can tell when someone is not being a good friend.

In curriculum terms

Understand what makes someone a good friend — being kind, honest, reliable, and including others — and recognise behaviours that are not friendly, such as being bossy, leaving people out, or saying mean things

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How to tell they’ve got it

Tick these off as you see them — no test required.

List at least four qualities of a good friend
Identify unfriendly behaviour in a story or real situation
Reflect on a time they were a good friend and explain what they did

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Try this together

Can your child describe what makes a good friend and recognise when someone — including themselves — isn't being a good friend?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on

Vocabulary: working with othersages 5–8Understanding what makes a good friend draws on cooperation and inclusion vocabulary

Makes someone a good friendthis skill · ages 5–7

Unlocks

Friendships change over timeages 7–9Understanding friendship changes builds on knowing what makes a good friend

Resolving Disagreements with Friendsages 7–9Conflict resolution builds on understanding friendship qualities

solid = must come firstdashed = helps

Curriculum alignment

Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.

Show candidate curriculum codes · 2 NSW · 3 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

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

NSW syllabus codes & stages only

PHE-RRS-01low confidencePDHPE K-6 · Early Stage 1

PH2-RRS-01low confidencePDHPE K-6 · Stage 2

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2HP2P03low confidenceHealth and Physical Education · Levels 1 and 2 · 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

VC2HP4P04low 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

Asking for Helpages 5–7 Listening to Othersages 5–7 Taking Turns and Sharingages 5–7 Vocabulary: working with othersages 5–8

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