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Helping Hands - Online safety workshop

Dear Parents and Carers,

We are pleased to be able to inform you that we have been given the exciting opportunity for a PSHE/Online Safety Workshop for our Year 5 & 6 pupils. On the 11th December, Loudmouth Theatres will be delivering their "Helping Hands" workshop for free before completing a discussion session with each class around how to stay safe online and in the real world. Loudmouth Theatre say:

"Helping Hands is a theatre in education programme run with pupils in years 5 and 6 (ages 9-11 upwards). It is an age appropriate and well researched programme designed to support children in learning about safe contact with others. Using the NSPCC’s PANTS rule as the central theme, the Safe Team, teach the children about safe and unsafe secrets and body contact as well as recognising the feelings that may occur when you feel unsafe. The workshop talks about tough topics like staying safe at home and with others. It’s designed to be gentle, age-appropriate, and supportive, so children feel safe while learning. The programme, Helping Hands uses drama, a character Q&A session and discussion to help children to stay safe in their relationships with others both on and off line."

The programme, Helping Hands, links directly to the Government’s RHE statutory curriculum that states that pupils should know…

• that sometimes people behave differently online (e.g. pretend to be someone they are not) and how data can be shared and used online.

• how to keep safe online and recognise risks and harmful content and how to report them.

• about the importance of privacy for both children and adults; and how some secrets can be unsafe to keep.

• that each person’s body belongs to them, the differences between appropriate and inappropriate or unsafe contact and recognise feelings of being unsafe.

• how to report concerns or abuse and get advice.

Attached is the leaflet provided by Loudmouth Theatre around what the NSPCC's PANTs rule is, where to get help from, a child's personal network and conversation starters following the workshop should you wish to discuss this with them further.

If you have any questions, please come and speak to Mr Oakley or Mr Redwood.

Many Thanks

The Year 5/6 team.

Helping Hands Leaflet