Health and Physical Education / Foundation / Personal, social and community health / Making healthy and safe choices

Curriculum content descriptions

demonstrate protective behaviours, name body parts and rehearse help-seeking strategies that help keep them safe (AC9HPFP05)

Elaborations
  • exploring protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies they can use when they or others feel unsafe or uncomfortable
  • exploring and demonstrating assertive strategies to seek help when they or others feel unsafe
  • recognising online spaces and digital tools that are safe for them to use and recognising the importance of seeking help from a trusted adult if they feel unsafe while online
  • identifying a support network of adults they can trust to help them if they feel unsafe, uncomfortable or scared
  • recognising that all people have the right to bodily autonomy: the right to make choices about what others ask them to do with and to their bodies
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and Social capability
ScOT terms

Help-seeking behaviour,  Private body parts,  Personal space

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