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Personal & Social DevelopmentResponsible Decision-Makingusually ages 9–11

Peer Pressure and Resisting It

Understand peer pressure — the influence friends and peers can have on your choices and behaviour — and develop strategies for resisting pressure to do something they know is wrong or that makes them uncomfortable

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If your child's friends dare them to do something risky or unkind — like shoplifting a sweet or posting an embarrassing photo of someone — can they resist the pressure and explain why they won't do it?

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Builds on
Bystanders and Upstandersages 7–9Peer pressure resistance builds on bystander/upstander awareness
Stop, Think, Then Chooseages 7–9Resisting peer pressure builds on decision-making process
Vocabulary: ethics and citizenshipages 7–11Peer pressure as a concept requires knowing the term 'peer pressure' and vocabulary of 'rights' and 'responsibility'
Assertive Communicationages 9–11Resisting peer pressure benefits from assertive communication skills
Peer Pressure and Resisting Itthis skill · ages 9–11
Unlocks
Ethical Frameworks and Moral Reasoningages 13–14Advanced responsible decision-making depends on earlier decision-making skills

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Curriculum alignment

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

Show candidate curriculum codes · 2 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

VC2HP6P08low confidenceHealth and Physical Education · Levels 5 and 6 · Personal, Social and Community Health – Health Education strand
VC2HP4P10low 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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Community Rights and Responsibilitiesages 9–11 Difficult Ethical Choicesages 9–11 Ethics in Real-World Issuesages 9–11 Basic digital citizenshipages 7–9

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