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Taking Care Project

‘Taking Care’

PSHE underpins all of our teaching and learning to support our children and help them develop effective characteristics of learning and skills for life. 

Alongside our HeartSmart programme at Emscote, we also follow the Protective Behaviours-‘Taking Care' project to ensure children understand how to keep themselves and their bodies safe.

The Taking Care project aims to improve the safety and well-being of children in Warwickshire by teaching them to keep themselves safer in a variety of situations.  Please find below links to parent resources.

Protective Behaviours is based on two key messages:

  •          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

 It is an approach to personal safety that aims to empower and increase the self-belief of children and adults to keep them safe. This is done through the recognition of their personal intuitive feelings (Early Warning Signs) and the strategies that can be used to help them. Protective Behaviours also recognises that life is about challenging ourselves and taking safe risks so that we try new things.

 

Protective Behaviours  ‘Taking care’ project

Year One
  •          Keeping safe in familiar and unfamiliar situations.
  •          Understanding secrets and surprises.
  •          Understanding appropriate and inappropriate touch.
  •          Understanding different kinds of feelings and learning strategies to manage them. Understand change and loss.
  •          Learning the correct names for the different body parts.
  •          Learning who helps keep us safe & asking for help. #Including (ICT, Road/Fire Safety) #May be taught at different times of the year due to external providers

Year Two
  •          Keeping safe in familiar and unfamiliar situations.
  •          Understanding secrets and surprises.
  •          Understanding appropriate and inappropriate touch.
  •          Understanding different kinds of feelings and learning strategies to manage them. Understand change and loss.
  •          Learning the correct names for the different body parts.
  •          Learning who helps keep us safe & asking for help. #Including (ICT, Road/Fire Safety) #May be taught at different times of the year due to external providers
  •          Understand similarities and differences between boys and girls.
  •          Learning that bodies and feelings can be hurt.
  •          How to communicate feelings and respond in return.
  •          Rules for keeping safe in different places; including online; people who work in the community;
  •          Asking for help; including in an emergency #May be taught at different times of the year due to external providers.