Protective behaviours teaches children to develop an awareness of personal safety and helps them to identify and express their feelings, make choices, and solve problems. First Steps to Safety has taken the core protective behaviour principles and created a teaching framework with overarching aims, supported by lesson plans, resources, and activities in a 10-week programme. This programme can be easily implemented by anyone in a school setting to empower children and young people of any age and capability to develop personal safety.
Key Features
- My body parts
- Showing my feelings
- My body, thoughts, and feelings all go together
- Feeling safe
- Behaviour choices
- Empowering children to feel safe and know they have a right to feel safe
- Giving children the confidence and ability to assertively manage their own safety
- Teaching children the skills to take responsibility for their own bodies, thoughts, feelings, and behaviour
- Enabling children with a range of communication abilities to ask for help
- Raising awareness of their body, thoughts, feelings, and behaviour
- Providing a vocabulary to express how their thoughts and feelings affect their bodies
- Recognising the early warning signs for feeling unsafe
- Understanding that they can make different behaviour choices based on feelings
- Identifying good people to go to for help and how to ask for help
Additional Information
The information and strategies provided to children are generic and applicable across a range of situations that may arise, such as bullying, internet safety, being harmed, feeling sad, or feeling unsafe. Teaching Protective Behaviours to Young Children includes a CD-Rom containing all resources and supporting information for lesson plans.
