Focus Area 1: The right to be safe Warning signs

Primary Years: Years 3-5

2.1 Warning signs: physical indicators

1. Brainstorm physical indicators or body messages that someone

might have in an unsafe situation. Write or draw them inside the
body outline.

2. ‘Feeling’ words can be put outside the body.

Focus Area 1: The right to be safe Warning signs

Primary Years: Years 3-5

2.1 Warning signs: physical indicators

• Do we all have the same warning signs?

• Do our warning signs change?

• Are there any warning signs you might feel when communicating
with someone online?

• What if people don’t have warning signs and they are in an unsafe
situation?

• How would they know they were unsafe?

Focus Area 1: The right to be safe Risk-taking and emergencies

Early Years: Years R-2

4.3 Looking for clues about risks

Risk
What? Where? When? Who?
Safer Less safe Unsafe

Someone asking you to On the way home After school An unknown person
come and see a new from school in a car stopped to
puppy ask you 

Someone asking you to Your best friend’s As you were Your best friend
come and see a new house walking past their 
puppy house after school

Someone staying with a At the friend’s Overnight Whole family

friend (or relative) house 

Someone staying with a At the friend’s Overnight Parents/carers are

friend (or relative) house out 
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What is the KS:CPC?

• Child safety curriculum for children and young people

• Age appropriate activities Age 3 to Year 12

• Developed by child protection experts

• Evidence based

• Highly regarded nationally and internationally

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Why do we teach children and young

people about child protection and who
is responsible?
Skills to help keep themselves safe

Duty of care

Being proactive rather than reactive

Child protection is everyone’s responsibility not just selected people at

the site
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Policies
Quality Schools International
There are many opportunities for children to
learn about safeguarding and protection
throughout the school day, and any
opportunities to further discussions about
relevant topics should be taken. However, to
best protect students, QSI has adopted the
Keeping Safe: Child Protection Curriculum.
All teachers must be trained to teach the
curriculum. QSI will host a training-of-trainers
every two years to ensure that each school has a
KS:CPC trainer on staff. The school must provide
a yearly opportunity for the trainer to train any
teachers who are not yet certified to teach the
curriculum. Additionally, the school must
schedule weekly or bi-monthly time for lessons
on child safeguarding and protection to each
class in the school, throughout the school year.
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Aims Themes Focus Areas

The KS:CPC teaches all children from a young age, in an age appropriate way, to:

• recognise abuse and tell a trusted adult about it

• understand what is appropriate and inappropriate touching

• understand ways of keeping themselves safe.

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Aims Themes Focus Areas

The KS:CPC is predicated on two main themes which are presented through topics
and activities of increasing complexity:
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Aims Themes Focus Areas

There are four Focus Areas, which are examined in growing complexity in
accordance with the age of the learners:

The right to be safe

Relationships

Recognising and reporting abuse

Protective strategies
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KS:CPC in the classroom