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Originally Posted by vicky.flanagan
Ways to encourage children to be aware of their own bodies and understand their right not to be abused according to the age/ability and needs of the child? Use of appropriate descriptive language. Activities including disscussion about their own bodies.
Am I doing this along the right lines or am I totally of it?
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Your answer is similar to mine, but I have gone into more detail:
Use of appropriate descriptive language
At xxxxxxxx school, children are encouraged to look after themselves and each other. “Play fighting” and bullying are not tolerated in the school. Each class makes its own class charter in September which includes their own ideas about how they wish to be treated. The children are encouraged to look after themselves by looking after their own health. Examples of this are understanding why they should wear a coat outside on a cold day, why they should wash their hands before eating, and why they should eat fruit as part of a healthier diet. Children are praised, rewarded and encouraged for positive behaviour or good achievements, which gives them confidence and helps them to develop a good self image. Children who struggle to struggle to get changed after P.E. are encouraged to try and dress themselves first, and then are given minimal help by an adult, thus promoting independence in the child. Every year, the school has a “road safety week”, a “healthy eating week” and an “anti-bullying week”. Children are frequently reminded of the importance of “stranger danger”. Staff use informative and uncondescending language to explain to the children the need to look after themselves and their health. Staff make themselves approachable to all children so that they feel they could confide in them should the need arise. The children are encouraged to look after themselves and keep themselves safe using the appropriate language in accordance to their age. Throughout the school the children have used their own ideas and language to provide ways of doing this in their class charter. The staff actively encourage and praise children for this which helps to build their confidence and independence.
Activities involving discussion about their own bodies
The xxxxxxxx School policy on *** education states that “no specific *** education will be offered in school. ( ) Where children ask specific questions of a sexual nature directly to a teacher, such questions will be referred back to the parents”. Children are encouraged to discuss matters relating to their own health, and how they wish to be treated by their peers. Children are taught about gender, whilst avoiding stereotyping of the type of tasks that can be carried out by each. In Key Stage 1, one of the topics that is taught is “life cycles and growing”. They learn that they used to be babies, and that they have grown, developed and learned many skills. They are also shown that the tallest child in the class may not necessarily be the oldest child in the class, and that we are all different. The children celebrate the fact that they are all unique, and that whilst they may have some similar features to some of their friends, eg, brown hair, in other ways they are different, eg, skin colour. Every child in the school is made to feel important and special. EAL and Reception children are taught the names of body parts by singing songs and playing games eg “heads, shoulders, knees and toes” or "Simon Says”.
k2s34 Input needed on if I am going int he right direction with this?
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