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Week 23

Foundation – Grade 2·Foundation · Year 1 · Year 2

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Week Twenty-Three centres on teamwork, mindfulness, respect, and gratitude, offering a balanced blend of movement, reflection, and emotional learning. Activities like Hot and Cold and Shadow Movement strengthen communication, cooperation, and observation skills as students work together, give clear instructions, and practice coordinated movement. Students also engage in meaningful emotional reflection through My Favourite Memory, encouraging them to revisit joyful moments and express their feelings through writing or drawing. These activities build self-awareness, empathy, and expressive confidence while helping students recognise and celebrate the positive experiences in their lives.

The week also places intentional focus on mindfulness and respectful behaviour. Through the Gratitude Walk, students learn to pay attention to the beauty in their surroundings and articulate appreciation for the things that bring them joy. The I Am Respectful Pledge guides students to reflect deeply on how they treat others and commit to behaviours that foster kindness, safety, and inclusion. Together, these activities help students develop stronger communication skills, emotional awareness, and respectful habits, creating a classroom culture where everyone feels valued, supported, and connected.

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Hot and Cold
Written
My Favourite Memory
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Shadow Movement
Gratitude
I Am Respectful Pledge
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Personal & Social Capability and HPE Version 2.0, VCAA, used by Victorian schools.

PSC / SELPersonal & Social Capability
Play
  • VC2CP2S04The importance of continued effort when faced with unfamiliar or challenging situations, including how it can help to try new things.
  • VC2CP2O03Strategies for making and keeping friends; how actions and words can help or hurt others; and when, how and why behaviour should be modified.
Written
  • VC2CP2S03Actions for supporting personal strengths useful for school and broader life; actions for supporting developing awareness of personal interests.
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Gratitude
  • VC2CP2S01Verbal and non-verbal ways to recognise, name and describe emotional responses and situations associated with them.
  • VC2CP2O05Situations where conflicts might occur between individuals, and appropriate and inappropriate behaviours and attitudes.
View official curriculum →Victorian Curriculum F–10 v2.0
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