Keeping our property safe
- Use a story or video to illustrate how the police can help us when we are in need. Ask the children to discuss the work of the police and to express their ideas - verbally or through individual or group drawings and writing - about the role of the police, eg protection of the public, crime prevention, law enforcement.
- Discuss with the children how their property can be kept safe at school. Point out that lots of children own similar things, eg pens, pencils, rulers, coats, bags. What happens when something goes missing? Are there different reasons why this might happen, eg it gets lost, someone takes it by mistake, someone takes it deliberately? Make a class list of rules to keep property safe, eg taking other people's belongings is wrong, all property should be labelled, expensive things must not be brought to school, the classroom must be kept tidy, my personal property must be kept on my peg or in my store basket. Through discussion, identify the individual and collective responsibilities or actions needed to make the rules work. Encourage children to agree to the rules by a show of hands. The rules should be typed out and displayed in the classroom and could be kept in the children's own portfolio.
Keeping ourselves safe
- Use a story or video to illustrate a situation where personal safety may be at risk, eg someone they don't know approaches a group of children walking home from school, friends are playing a game near a railway line. Ask the children to talk about what they should do in different situations, eg when they are lost. The community police officer may be able to talk to children and lead activities to explore personal safety issues and assertiveness skills, eg ways of saying no, road safety skills, water safety or other personal safety issues.
- Following the discussion, compile a class personal safety code.
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- know that it is wrong to take other people's property without permission
- recognise that we are all responsible for looking after our own and other people's property
- know what actions can be taken to help keep property safe
- recognise that rules are important and know how they help us
- discuss and agree rules for the class
- know what to do in different risk situations
- understand the importance of taking care of themselves and of their peers at school and in the community
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