KOS

Keeping One Step Ahead

Students can recognize potential danger.
Students can choose safe options that will
help them to keep safe.

Week 2 20th 24th October 2014

Activity One
Activity Two
Introduction

Choosing safe options

Activity Three
Role Playing Safety Strategies

Weekly Reflection:

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Body Bits

1. Review Class guidelines about contributing to class discussions.

2. Ask the children what makes a person male or female consider appearance and
challenge stereotypes.
3. In groups draw a body outline of a student on large sheet of paper draw pictures
of various internal/external body parts. Label parts.
4. Set up a QUESTION box.

Weekly Reflection:

Week Three 27th 31st October 2014

KOS
Im Responsible For Others Too
Students demonstrate a responsible attitude
towards their own safety and that of other
people they may be with.

Weekly Reflection:

Activity One

Activity Two

Activity Three

Baby Sitting

Bullying

Caring For Others

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Our Changing Bodies

1. Discuss questions what does puberty mean? When does it happen? Why does it
happen?
2. Discuss and record the similarities/differences between boys and girls during
puberty.
3. Discuss Inside/Outside
4. Research: Periods/Wet Dreams/Erections present findings to the class.
5. Glue into our books Changes that occur during Puberty pg.14
6. Complete the PUBERTY QUIZ pg.15

Weekly Reflection:

Week Four 3rd 7th November 2014

KOS
Finding Out About Abuse
Students can identify different types of
abuse.
Students know that victims can be anybody.
Students know that abuse must be stopped

Activity One

Activity Two

Activity Three

Starter-Home Alone

Identifying Abuse

Feelings about abuse

Weekly Reflection:

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Daily Routines/Valuing Myself

1. Bus stop activity several questions around the room pg.16

2. Draw a chart when you eat, exercise, wash your skin, shower or bath, change
clotheswhat do you want to change about your daily routines? What do you need
to make changes? Who can help you make changes?
3. Valuing myself record three things you value about yourself. What three qualities
would you change? Discuss put-ups and putdowns.
4. Mind Map students work in pairs to identify similarities in their mind maps.

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Week 5 10th -14th November 2014

KOS
Families Working Together
Students can describe stress within the
family and suggest ways of handling this.
Students can distinguish between family
discipline and abuse.
Students can explain that they have the right
to proper care and protection and that they
should be safe within their family.

Activity One

Activity Two

Activity Three

Family discipline

Family stress

The right to be cared for and safe.

Weekly Reflection:

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What about Teasing
Peer Pressures

Weekly Reflection:

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Continuum agree and disagree children to place cards with statements.

Students place themselves on an imaginary continuum.
Critical thinking and action.
Read story Valentine by Norman Bilbrough
Role Play Activity with suggested scenarios.

Week 6 17-21st November 2014

KOS
Stopping Abuse
Students can explain why it is important to
stop abuse.
Students can list possible people to report to
and ways this can be done.

Activity One

Activity Two

Deciding what to do

Reporting Abuse

Weekly Reflection:

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Our Different Cultures

1. Students to work in pairs-Children to have statements and ask them to identify

ways that people from different families and cultures might feel about the
statement, and how these feelings may affect their behavior. Share as a pair.
2. Each student to record three things that they learned or realized during this
session.

Weekly Reflection:

Week 7

KOS
What happens now?
Students can explain what happens after
abuse is reported.
Students can share their knowledge about
abuse.

24th 28th November 2014

Activity One

Activity Two

What happens after I tell?

Sharing new
knowledge.

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Get the Picture

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Whos there

1. Students to gather a range of magazines to cut up for collage materials. How does
the media represent women? Men? Present posters to the class.
2. How do the students feel, as male and female people, about being depicted in these
ways? Do the media images reflect the actual range of ages, cultures, and
ethnicities evident in their community?
3. Look at advertisements from various media what dies this advert hope to sell?
What does it use to get the message across colour? Bold lettering? Beautiful
people? What does the picture in the advertisement say about the way young
people should look or behave?
4. Does this advert aim to affect young people experiencing any particular pubertal
change? How do you think adverts like this affect people?
1. As a class, brainstorm health care agencies and people that could assist with health
care issues. Invite Public Health Care worker in to school.
2. Design a pamphlet promoting Someone I can talk to or Someone who can help
me the pamphlet to clearly describe the persons role and the support they can
provide.

POSITIVE PUBERTY ASSESSMENT ACTIVITY

Provide the students with line drawings of a male and a female body. The student could individually put labels on each picture to identify
as many of the changes that occur at puberty as possible (to include mental and emotional, social, spiritual, and physical changes).

Term 4

Keeping Ourselves Safe

Positive Puberty Plan
Year 7/8
Kim Gordon