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Personal & Social DevelopmentSelf-Regulation & Resilienceusually ages 5–7

Simple Calming Strategies

Use simple calming strategies when feeling upset or overwhelmed — such as taking deep breaths, counting to ten, or going to a quiet space — and understand that these help the body and mind settle down

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When your child gets really upset — say they lose a game or argue with a sibling — can they use a strategy like deep breaths to calm themselves down rather than staying in meltdown mode?

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Builds on
Words for Big Feelingsages 5–8Calming strategies (calm, breathe, settle) rely on knowing this vocabulary to name and apply the techniques
Naming Basic Emotionsages 5–7Calming strategies benefit from naming the emotion you're trying to manage
Simple Calming Strategiesthis skill · ages 5–7
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Choosing the Right Coping Strategyages 7–9Different coping strategies builds on knowing basic calming strategies
Positive Self-Talkages 7–9Positive self-talk builds on basic calming strategies
Expressing Feelings with Wordsages 5–7Expressing feelings in words benefits from calming down first
Patience and Delayed Gratificationages 5–7Patience benefits from calming strategies when waiting is hard

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Curriculum alignment

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

Show candidate curriculum codes · 1 ACARA · 1 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

AC9HP4P06low confidenceYear 3–4 · Personal, social and community health

explain how and why emotional responses can vary and practise strategies to manage their emotions

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2HP4P06medium 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

Coping with Life Changesages 5–7 Learning from Mistakesages 5–7 Patience and Delayed Gratificationages 5–7 Words for Big Feelingsages 5–8

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