This element involves students identifying and examining values and exploring rights and responsibilities of individuals and groups in a range of contexts and practices.
Students use instances of expressed values to explain social interactions and to determine rights and responsibilities in social and legal domains. They recognise and interpret points of view in ethical contexts. In developing and acting with ethical understanding, students:
- examine values
- explore rights and responsibilities
- consider points of view.
Level 1
Typically by the end of Foundation Year, students:
Level 2
Typically by the end of Year 2, students:
Examine values
discuss some agreed values in familiar contexts
Explore rights and responsibilities
identify their rights and associated responsibilities and those of their classmates
Consider points of view
recognise that there may be many points of view when probing ethical dilemmas and identify alternative views
Level 3
Typically by the end of Year 4, students:
Examine values
identify and describe shared values in familiar and unfamiliar contexts
Explore rights and responsibilities
investigate children’s rights and responsibilities at school and in the local community
Consider points of view
describe different points of view associated with an ethical dilemma and give possible reasons for these differences