Character & Capability - Clarinda Primary School

Critical and creative thinking capability aims to ensure that students develop:

understanding of thinking processes and an ability to manage and apply these intentionally
skills and learning dispositions that support logical, strategic, flexible and adventurous thinking
confidence in evaluating thinking and thinking processes across a range of familiar and unfamiliar contexts.

The Ethical Capability curriculum aims to develop knowledge, understandings and skills to enable students to:

Analyse and evaluate ethical issues, recognising areas of contestability
Identify the bases of ethical principles and ethical reasoning
Engage with the challenges of managing ethical decision making and action for individuals and groups
Cultivate open-mindedness and reasonableness

Intercultural capability aims to develop knowledge, understandings and skills to enable students to:

demonstrate an awareness of and respect for cultural diversity within the community
reflect on how intercultural experiences influence attitudes, values and beliefs
recognise the importance of acceptance and appreciation of cultural diversity for a cohesive community.

The Personal and Social Capability curriculum aims to develop knowledge, understandings and skills to enable students to:

recognise, understand and evaluate the expression of emotions
demonstrate an awareness of their personal qualities and the factors that contribute to resilience
develop empathy for and understanding of others and recognise the importance of supporting diversity for a cohesive community
understand how relationships are developed and use interpersonal skills to establish and maintain respectful relationships
work effectively in teams and develop strategies to manage challenging situations constructively.