Vocabulary: making decisions and keeping safe
Know and use the vocabulary of making decisions and keeping safe — choice, consequence, rule, safe, fair, honest, trusted adult, and right and wrong — and understand that naming these ideas clearly helps make better choices
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“If your child faces a situation where they need to make a choice — like whether to tell the truth about something that went wrong — can they talk through what might happen using words like 'consequence' and 'fair'?”
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- Activity. Know and use the vocabulary of making decisions and keeping safe — choice, consequence, rule, safe, fair, honest, trusted adult, and right and wrong — and understand that naming these ideas clearly helps make better choices
What to notice. Explain what 'consequence' means and give an example of a positive and a negative consequence of a choice • Use 'responsible' and 'safe' correctly when talking about everyday decisions — e.g. 'The responsible choice is to tell an adult' • Define 'rule' and 'fairness' and explain why rules exist using their own examples from school or home
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If your child faces a situation where they need to make a choice — like whether to tell the truth about something that went wrong — can they talk through what might happen using words like 'consequence' and 'fair'?
Know and use the vocabulary of making decisions and keeping safe — choice, consequence, rule, safe, fair, honest, trusted adult, and right and wrong — and understand that naming these ideas clearly helps make better choices
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- Explain what 'consequence' means and give an example of a positive and a negative consequence of a choice
- Use 'responsible' and 'safe' correctly when talking about everyday decisions — e.g. 'The responsible choice is to tell an adult'
- Define 'rule' and 'fairness' and explain why rules exist using their own examples from school or home
“If your child faces a situation where they need to make a choice — like whether to tell the truth about something that went wrong — can they talk through what might happen using words like 'consequence' and 'fair'?”
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- Type
- Language
- Subject
- Personal & Social Development
- Domain
- Responsible Decision-Making
- Age range
- Ages 5–8