Health and physical education / Foundation / Personal, Social and Community Health / Being healthy, safe and active

Curriculum content descriptions

Identify people and demonstrate protective behaviours and other actions that help keep themselves safe and healthy (ACPPS003)

Elaborations
  • identifying characters in different texts who help the main character to stay safe and healthy
  • identifying knowledge, skills and understandings that can help keep them safe and healthy
  • identifying different relationships they have with people and which of these relationships make them feel loved, safe and supported
  • naming trusted people in their community who can help them stay safe and healthy, and practising ways of asking for help in a range of different scenarios
  • suggesting safe places at home, at school, while playing or while shopping and identifying what makes those places safe
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
ScOT terms

Help-seeking behaviour,  Trust

Downloadable

TrackSAFE Education Primary School Resources: Foundation, Year 1, Year 2 Health & Physical Education

This webpage includes a webpage includes a unit of work is a three-lesson sequence designed to introduce students to the importance of safe behaviours in and around tracks and stations based on a real or virtual visit to a station, local level crossing and tracks. The central focus is familiarisation with main elements ...

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Australia’s Biggest Child Safety Lesson

This resource focuses on the concept of ‘my body, my choice’, and the strategies children can then use when they need to seek, give or deny consent. Within each activity there are explanations and scripts to support teachers to facilitate exploration of the suggested concepts. Some of the activities are quite generic with ...

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Trusted adults

Students explore the concept of trusted adults, who can help them to feel safe, using the 'helping hand' strategy.

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Swoosh, Glide and Rule Number 5

The Swoosh and Glide education material can be used to teach lower primary students how to make good choices when they are online. Teachers can read the picture book to the class or read along with the video, and then explore the puzzles with students.

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Foundation: Resilience, rights and respectful relationships

This resource explores eight topics of social and emotional learning across the Foundation level of schooling. The topics are emotional literacy; personal and cultural strengths; positive coping; problem-solving; stress management; help-seeking; gender and identity; and positive gender relations. Each topic includes background ...

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Respectful Relationships: Teaching and Learning

Find comprehensive resources organised by stages of schooling including a scope and sequence, teaching and learning activities and links to resources. The activities provide explicit opportunities for developmentally appropriate learning about consent education, gender stereotypes and roles, keeping safe, respectful relationships ...

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Integrity

In this lesson students will understand that integrity means always trying your best to do the right thing. They will explore the concept that integrity is a matter of personal choice and that looking at a situation from someone else’s perspective will help them to make a good choice. Extension activities about self respect ...