Personal Safety (Secondary)

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Curriculum content:

1. How to identify risk and manage personal safety in increasingly independent situations,
including around roads, railways – including level crossings – and water (including the
water safety code), and in unfamiliar social or work settings (for example the first time a
young person goes on holiday without their parents).
2. How to recognise and manage peer influence in relation to risk-taking behaviour and
personal safety, including peer influence online and on social media.
3. How to develop key social and emotional skills that will increase pupils’ safety from
involvement in conflict and violence. These include skills to support self-awareness,
self-management, social awareness, relationship skills and responsible decision
making, as well as skills to recognise and manage peer pressure.
4. Understanding which trusted adults they can talk to if pupils are worried about violence
and/or knife crime.
5. The law as it relates to knives and violence. Content and examples should relate to the
local context and avoid using fear as an educational tool. Children should be taught
that carrying weapons is uncommon, and should not be scared into the perception that
many young people are carrying knives (which can lead to the misconception that they
need to carry a knife too).
6. The risks and signs that they may be at risk of grooming or exploitation, and how to
seek help where there is a concern.