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Personal safety sessions in the Education resource pack

Through these sessions adults can help children and young people aged 7-14 to develop awareness of:

  • what personal safety is
  • where they can find information about personal safety
  • what they can do to help keep safe
  • the services and role of Victim Support.
Session Objectives Activities Resources
Personal safety KS2 (ages 7-11)
  • What is personal safety?
  • How to reduce risks to our safety?
  • What we can do to feel safe and be safe?
  • Who we can talk to if we do not feel safe?
  • Where you can get more information about personal safety?
  • Introduce Victim Support
  • Establish objectives and shared needs
  • Starter: What's the risk?/A risky line
  • Main: Risky role plays/Personal safety campaign
  • Plenary: It's good to talk/Safety net
  • Evaluation
  • Sets of What's the risk? cards
  • What's the risk? possible answer sheet
  • Personal safety situation cards
  • Evaluation questionnaires
Personal safety KS3 (ages 11-14)
  • What is personal safety?
  • How to reduce risks to our safety?
  • What we can do to feel safe and be safe?
  • How we can help other people to feel safe and be safe?
  • Who we can talk to if we do not feel safe?
  • Where you can get more information about personal safety?
  • Introduce Victim Support
  • Establish objectives and shared needs
  • Starter: What's the risk?/A risky line
  • Main: Remote control role plays/Changing paths
  • Plenary: It's good to talk/Safety net
  • Evaluation
  • Sets of What's the risk? cards
  • What's the risk? possible answer sheet
  • Personal safety situation cards
  • Comic strip sheets
  • Evaluation questionnaires

Download these sessions.

The sessions link with the aims and objectives of Every Child Matters, Healthy Schools and the National Curriculum.

The sessions are flexible and you can use parts or all of them to fit in with your own work with children and young people, they can also be used in conjunction with other personal safety resources.

What's the risk? online activity

You may also want to use the 'What's the risk' online activity aimed at young people at KS3. Go the online activities.

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