PIES Badge Based Curriculum

🏅 PIES Summary Badge

Area: Social

Badge: Social Summary Badge

Purpose of This Badge

This Summary Badge provides an opportunity to celebrate everything your child has explored, practised and developed within the Social area.

By looking back over completed badges, you can recognise progress, identify strengths and celebrate achievements that may otherwise go unnoticed.

This badge is designed to help you appreciate how far your child has come while looking forward to future growth and development.

Completed Badges Review

Review the badges your child has completed within the Social area.

✅ Active Listening

✅ Good Manners

✅ Sharing and Taking Turns

✅ Respect and Tolerance

✅ Communication – Expressing Yourself

✅ Communication – Understanding Others

✅ Assertiveness

✅ Cooperation

✅ Collaboration

✅ Conflict Resolution – Recognising Conflict

✅ Conflict Resolution – Strategies

✅ Building Positive Relationships

Consider revisiting completed Evidence Records, Journey Journal entries, discussions, projects and experiences that contributed to each badge.

Looking Back

Use the completed badges, Evidence Records and Journey Journal entries to reflect on your child's development.

Consider:

• Which experiences did they enjoy most?

• Which skills showed the greatest improvement?

• Which activities generated the most enthusiasm?

• Which areas would benefit from further development?

• Which social situations helped them grow most?

• Which relationships or friendships have been particularly significant?

There are no right or wrong answers.

The purpose of this reflection is to help you recognise growth that may not always be obvious when viewed day by day.

Progress Through the PIES Stages

Reflect on your child's current stage.

🌱 Early Years (0–4)

Learning to interact with others through play, communication and shared experiences.

🔍 Discovery Years (5–7)

Developing social awareness, friendships and an understanding of fairness, kindness and cooperation.

🚀 Exploration Years (8–11)

Building communication skills, teamwork, problem-solving and relationship skills.

🌟 Independence Years (12–15)

Developing responsibility within relationships, managing conflict and contributing positively to groups and communities.

🎓 Young Adult Years (16–18)

Applying social skills confidently within friendships, community participation, further education, employment and adult life.

Consider how your child is developing within their current stage and whether they are demonstrating increasing confidence, independence and capability.

Knowledge Developed

Throughout this area, your child has had opportunities to develop knowledge of:

• Communication and social interaction

• Friendship and relationship-building

• Respect, inclusion and diversity

• Teamwork, cooperation and collaboration

• Conflict, problem-solving and positive community participation

These examples may help when completing your PIES Evidence Record.

Skills Practised

Throughout this area, your child has had opportunities to practise:

• Listening and communicating effectively

• Sharing, cooperation and teamwork

• Expressing opinions and needs respectfully

• Resolving disagreements constructively

• Building and maintaining positive relationships

These examples may help when completing your PIES Evidence Record.

Understanding Gained

Throughout this area, your child has had opportunities to develop understanding of:

• How relationships are formed and maintained

• Why respect and kindness matter

• How communication affects relationships and communities

• That people may have different perspectives, experiences and needs

• How working together often leads to better outcomes than working alone

These examples may help when completing your PIES Evidence Record.

Celebrating Achievement

Reflect on the achievements that stand out most during this area.

Consider:

🌟 What has your child achieved that makes you proud?

🤝 How have their friendships or relationships developed?

🚀 What new social skills have emerged?

😊 Which badges or experiences did they enjoy most?

💬 Which moments demonstrated communication, cooperation or kindness?

Remember that achievement is not measured by popularity or the number of friendships a child has.

Achievement can be found in growing confidence, stronger communication, improved cooperation, increased empathy and the ability to build positive connections with others.

⭐ Emerging Strengths

Throughout this area, your child may have demonstrated particular strengths.

Consider:

• Which skills appear most naturally?

• Which activities were completed with enthusiasm?

• Which experiences were repeatedly chosen?

• Which achievements stand out most?

• Which areas showed the greatest confidence?

• Which experiences generated curiosity or excitement?

• Which skills would your child happily practise again?

These observations may help identify future interests, talents and areas for further exploration.

Remember that strengths do not need to be exceptional to be valuable. 

Small interests often grow into lifelong passions when they are recognised and nurtured.

Learning Summary

Using your completed Evidence Records, write a summary of your child's development within this area.

Example:

Throughout this year, my child developed increasing confidence in social situations and relationships. They strengthened their communication skills, demonstrated growing respect for others and became more effective at working with people as part of a team. They showed kindness, cooperation and a willingness to consider different perspectives. Through a variety of shared experiences, they developed stronger relationship-building skills and increased confidence when navigating disagreements and social challenges.

Looking Ahead

Consider what you would like to explore next year.

You might think about:

• new interests

• new experiences

• further challenges

• developing confidence

• increasing independence

• building stronger friendships

• contributing to groups and communities

• building on emerging strengths

Remember that development is a journey rather than a destination.

The aim is not to avoid every disagreement or social difficulty, but to continue developing the communication, relationship and community skills that support lifelong wellbeing and participation.

Parent Reassurance

Every child develops differently. This Summary Badge is an opportunity to celebrate progress, not perfection.

By reflecting on your child's experiences and achievements, you are creating a valuable record of their educational journey and recognising learning that has taken place throughout everyday life.

The goal is not to compare your child to others. The goal is to recognise, record and celebrate growth.