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Week Two

Secondary·Years 7–10

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This week brings together fast-paced physical games, strategic thinking, gratitude practices, and meaningful reflection to support students’ overall well-being. Through high-energy dice challenges, movement-based competition, and thoughtful sharing, students develop quick reflexes, improve decision-making skills, and strengthen emotional intelligence. The week encourages students to balance action with intention, acting fast when needed, slowing down for reflection, and working collaboratively with peers in a supportive, fun-filled environment.

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Students also engage deeply in gratitude practices and reflective conversations that help them build stronger connections with one another. Activities like the Gratitude Wall and Naughts and Crosses Reflect & Share promote emotional awareness, communication skills, and empathy, while Matchy Matchy Dice and Dice 0–100 combine friendly competition with physical fitness and cognitive challenge. By blending strategy, movement, celebration, and communication, this week helps students recognise the power of gratitude, teamwork, and personal growth, skills they can carry into their everyday lives.

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From the Secondary curriculum · last updated 3 Dec 2025

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Personal & Social Capability and HPE Version 2.0, VCAA, used by Victorian schools.

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VC2CP8S02Levels 7–8: How to distinguish between productive and unproductive coping strategies; strategies for peer support and empathetic communication during adversity.
VC2CP8O04Levels 7–8: Situations that benefit from collaboration; strategies for setting team goals; and ways team members can support one another to achieve goals.
VC2CP10O05Levels 9–10: When and how to adapt skills and strategies to prevent, defuse or resolve conflict within and between groups in different contexts.

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VC2CP8S03Levels 7–8: Strategies for reflecting on and developing personal strengths in different contexts; connecting personal interests to broader life/careers.
VC2CP8O03Levels 7–8: Factors that affect how personal and group relationships are expressed and experienced, including personal boundaries, intimacy, distribution of power and social expectations.
VC2CP10O03Levels 9–10: Personal, social and cultural factors that influence the ability to experience respectful relationships; the rights and responsibilities of individuals in relationships.

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VC2CP8S01Levels 7–8: Ways to recognise emotional complexity and its causes and consequences.
VC2CP10S01Levels 9–10: Ways to analyse and evaluate emotional complexity in different contexts and from different perspectives.
VC2CP10S04Levels 9–10: How to identify and adapt strategies for improving confidence, adaptability and perseverance, considering personal and social enablers and barriers.

View official curriculum →Victorian Curriculum F–10 v2.0

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