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Putting the Pieces Together - First Day Back to School Activity
3 4 5 6 Pre & Primary Essentials Back to School Worksheets Health and Physical Education 1 Page

Putting the Pieces Together - First Day Back to School Activity

In this activity, students create a personality profile of themselves by colour coding a set of feeling statements. This will be a lot of fun for your students but will also provide you with some powerful insights into how they are feeling and thinking at the start of a new school year. Once the sheets are completed, you can ask volunteers to share their results, or collect them and look for trends to build further health lessons around.

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Learning goals

  • We are learning to identify how success, challenge, setbacks and failure help to strengthen our resilience, our capabilities and who we are.
  • We are learning to explore how experiencing success, challenges and failure can help strengthen our identities by reflecting.
  • We are learning to explore strategies to manage physical, social and emotional changes by discussing these changes and practising coping mechanisms.
  • We are learning to describe how choices and actions can be influenced by stereotypes.
  • We are learning to describe how respect, empathy and valuing diversity can positively influence relationships.
  • We are learning to make connections between our emotions, feelings and how we respond to them as actions or reactions.
  • We are learning to investigate how emotional responses vary in depth and strength by recognising and comparing different emotional reactions to various situations.
  • We are learning to explain how identities can be influenced by people and places and how we can create positive self-identities.
  • We are learning to examine how our identities are influenced by the people and places around us.
  • We are learning that we have some control over our emotional wellbeing, and can use a range of strategies to understand and improve our mood.
  • We are learning to examine the influence of emotional responses on behaviour and relationships by recognising and reflecting on how our feelings impact our actions and interactions.

Curriculum alignment

PD2-1 old Explores strategies to manage physical, social and emotional change PD2-2 old Explains and uses strategies to develop resilience and to make them feel comfortable and safe PD2-3 old Explains how empathy, inclusion and respect can positively influence relationships PD2-9 old Demonstrates self- management skills to respond to their own and others’ actions PD2-10 old Demonstrates a range of interpersonal skills that build and enhance relationships and promote inclusion in various situations PD3-10 old Selects and uses interpersonal skills to interact respectfully with others to promote inclusion and build connections PD3-9 old Applies and adapts self- management skills to respond to personal and group situations PD3-1 old Identifies and applies strengths and strategies to manage life changes and transitions PD3-3 old Evaluates the impact of empathy, inclusion and respect on themselves and others PD3-2 old Investigates information, community resources and strategies to demonstrate resilience and seek help for themselves and others
VCHPEP093 Investigate how emotional responses vary in family situations and in friendship groups VCHPEP110 Examine the influence of emotional responses on behaviour, relationships and health and wellbeing VCHPEP105 Explore how identities are influenced by people and places VCHPEP092 Describe factors that can positively influence relationships and personal wellbeing VCHPEP088 Examine how success, challenge and failure strengthen personal identities

Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.

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