Health and physical education / Year 1 and 2 / Personal, Social and Community Health / Being healthy, safe and active

Curriculum content descriptions

Practise strategies they can use when they feel uncomfortable, unsafe or need help with a task, problem or situation (ACPPS017)

Elaborations
  • identifying and rehearsing strategies they can use when requiring assistance, such as asking an adult, reading basic signs and solving a problem with friends
  • locating and recording phone numbers of local organisations they can contact in case of emergency and rehearsing a phone call to triple zero
  • identifying situations that require the help of emergency services
  • recognising photos and locations of safe places and a network of people who can help
  • describing warning signs (physical, emotional and external) that can help them to know if they are safe or unsafe
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
ScOT terms

Emergency services,  Help-seeking behaviour,  Child protection

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

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How to teach digital citizenship and online safety - Scope and sequence Australian curriculum

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