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Keeping Children Safe: Protective Behaviours for Years 1 – 2 is an excellent resource for teaching the skills and knowledge needed to help keep students safe and to develop strategies for protective behaviours in the Lower Primary Years, aimed at Years 1 and 2. It provides teaching information, lesson ideas, resources and activity pages linked to the V9 Health and Physical Education ACARA curriculum outcomes.
Through an array of ideas and hands-on activities/worksheets, the students gain a thorough understanding of strategies to develop protective behaviours covering the V9 Year 1 and 2 Curriculum Outcomes. The tasks have cross-curricular links to subject areas of Health and Physical Education, English, Art, Drama, and Music as well as Cross Curricular Priorities such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures.

Keeping Children Safe: Protective Behaviours for Years 1 – 2 covers the following messages, section by section:
1. We all have the right to feel safe at all times.
2. Early warning signs.
3. When things feel unsafe, we can use the safety continuum to assess how risky a situation is and if it is a good idea.
4. We can help ourselves to be safe by talking to people we trust.
5. We can talk with someone we trust in our safety network about anything, no matter what it is.
6. Persistence – keep asking until someone helps.
7. Body Awareness – there are public and private places and parts of the body.
8. Personal space – it is important to respect others’ personal space and to ask their consent to enter their personal space.
9. Assertiveness – learning to stand up for yourself and say no.