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“Feeling Good, Feeling Safe”

Working Together to Keep Children Safe

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Background

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West Hove Infant School has worked with BHCC and Safety Net to further develop

• ur PSHE materials in line with the

Protective Behaviours programme

A Safety Programme for children based on Protective Behaviours. It can be used to help children to feel and keep safe in different situations by developing safety knowledge, tools and skills.

What is Feeling Good, Feeling Safe?

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The Two Themes

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“We all have the Right to Feel Safe all of the Time” “We can talk with someone about anything, even if it feels awful or small”

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A whole school approach

:

• 1. Safety Lessons for

children

• 2. Reinforcement of

ideas across the school setting

• 3. Involvement of

parents and carers

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Programme Content

All All ch chil ildr dren en wil will l be be lear learning ning about: about:

• 1. Feelings & Feeling

Safe

• 2. Feeling Unsafe & early

Warning signs

• 3. Body Awareness &

secrets

• 4. How to get help &

problem-solving

 Rules can be useful but don’t work in all situations  Protective Behaviours is about teaching children to recognise their own internal warning signs about when they feel safe and unsafe  identify who they can talk to if they feel worried

• r unsafe in different situations

 Practicing what to do to keep safe in different situations

Rules vs Learning skills

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• A common language for everyone to use in

managing issues

• Children who feel ‘safe’ are likely to be able to learn

more easily

• Improvements in pupil behaviour
• Supports school strategy for

dealing with bullying and safeguarding

Benefits for the school

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The 4 Lessons

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• Develop self-esteem
• Manage feelings
• Confidence to learn and try

new things

• Ability to help others feel

safe

Lesson 1:

Help us to understand our feelings

We need words for our feelings, sad and happy. Its important to talk about our feelings. It’s ok to feel whatever we feel, but it’s not always ok to act on it.

Help children to understand: what Safe feels like for them what helps them to feel safe and identify safe places for them

When do you feel safe?

• Help children to

understand:

• what safe feels

like for them

• what helps them

to feel safe and

• identify safe

places for them

My Early Warning Signs are: Butterflies in my stomach, heart beats really fast, you get a headache, wobbly knees, feel sick, cant move, hair stands on end

Our bodies are clever, they tell us when we are feeling unsafe

Lesson 2: Feeling Unsafe

It’s good to take a risk on purpose

It’s how we learn and grow!

Lesson 3: Body Awareness & Secrets

What’s Missing? Why is it important that children can name all of their body parts?

Lesson 4: How to get help and problem-solving

Helping Hands

Children can use their Helping Hand as a way of remembering who they can talk to when they don’t feel safe. Children choose the adults to put on their Helping Hand

• ne for each finger

and people at home on the thumb.

Making Safer Choices

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STOP

How do I feel?

THINK

What are my options?

GO

The best/safest choice for me?