Personal & Social Development·Responsible Decision-Making·language
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
Suggested ages 5–8
Learning journey
Your child is learning to make good choices — understanding right from wrong, keeping themselves safe, thinking about consequences, and following rules because they understand why they matter.
Evidence of understanding
- 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
Assessment prompt
If Vocabulary: making decisions and keeping safe 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'?
Standards alignment
No external standards are linked to this topic.