The lesson is intended for children in year grades 1-6.
If done in detailed blocks, this lesson take 30 minutes.
The lesson can be done with large groups, small classes or individuals.
We all learn warning messages about keeping ourselves safe. It starts at home when we are little and then we learn more when we go to school. Children think and learn differently about safety. Teaching children about safety reduces the likelihood of a child entering an unsafe situation. Children and young people need specific instruction and messages to manage the many different risks they potentially face.
What influences our safety? How people behave towards or talk to us can make us feel safe or unsafe. Our own actions, actions of others and factors happening in our environment such as where we live also influences our feeling of being safe.
Being unsafe or feeling unsafe can have negative impact on our health and wellbeing. It can affect our friendships and other relationships, can affect how we do our schoolwork, make us feel we don’t want to have fun or go places, can make us worried, feel sad or angry. It is important to remember; find a trusted person and tell them what is happening that makes you feel unsafe.
What helps us to decide if we are safe or unsafe?
- Our body’s Early Warning signs instincts/gut feelings.
- If we see or hear something
- Rules and laws being broken
- Information from our parents, teachers, friends, family, media.
Ally is looking at what is ‘feeling safe’ and what we need to feel safe. Ally is reflecting on the different types of messages we learn about keeping ourselves safe. Ally will teach us what safe and unsafe feels like.
We learn lots about keeping ourselves safe. It’s important to be and feel safe with people. Everyone has the right to feel safe all the time.
Differentiate between safety messages. What feeling Safe and Unsafe feels like The different ways we can be hurt. The importance of telling until we feel safe again.
Identify different safety messages and distinguish personal safety. Recognise safe and unsafe feelings.
Remember it doesn’t matter where you are and who you are with everyone has the right to feel safe all the time.