Social & Emotional · Grade 5

Skills

• Names what they are good at and what they find hard, accurately and without drama.
• Recovers from a real failure — a lost match, a bad mark, a rejection — and goes back to it.
• Asks for help when it is needed, which is a skill and not a weakness.
• Repairs a friendship after a real falling-out.
• Stands up for someone being treated badly, or gets an adult who will.
• Resists group pressure to do something they know is wrong.
• Keeps a confidence — and knows the one exception: when someone is being hurt.
• Sets themselves a goal nobody asked for, and reaches it.
• Holds a position under mild social pressure, and changes it when genuinely persuaded.
• Shows up for a commitment — a team, a rehearsal, a promise — on a day they do not feel like it.