Our Violence Against Women and Girls Programme provides opportunities for vital conversations that will empower and equip young people with the knowledge and understanding around Violence Against Women and Girls.

This session lasts for 1 hour.

The workshops highlight the importance of equity and respect and offer an opportunity for both female and male students to consider the key features of healthy and unhealthy relationships, recognising harmful gender stereotypes, attitudes and behaviours, the impact verbal and non-verbal violence has and the laws around it.

Students will gain an understanding of the type of language and behaviour that is appropriate, both on and offline, as well as gaining a good understanding of what is meant by consent, the importance of gaining, as well as giving consent and that consent can be withdrawn at any time. The workshop will highlight the importance of calling out inappropriate behaviour in perpetrators to protect victims.

All students should feel empowered to identify the early warning signs and understand the importance of speaking out to get help for themselves, or others. The sessions signpost where young people can seek this support.

This is one of our most popular sessions.

Our sessions help children identify and navigate the risks of the online world.  Through a variety of age-appropriate practical activities and videos, the children are taught how to recognise risks, who they can talk to and where they can report content that upsets or worries them.  This session lasts approximately 75 minutes and each session builds on the content from the previous year.

The sessions include:

All year groups contain the following content, at an age-appropriate level: –

• Discussions about suitable app and game age restrictions.
• The risks of sharing too much personal information and the different ways it can be shared.
• Thinking about who they might be talking to online – are people always who they say they are?
• Importance of privacy settings, usernames and passwords.
• Who they can go to for support if they are worried.

Year 4, 5 and 6 also contain some of the following: –

• The risks of photo sharing and live streaming
• Identifying what Cyberbullying is and what to do if it happens – Year 5 and 6
• The risks and laws around sexting – Year 6

In this session we teach the children about how to recognise the different emergency services by the uniforms they wear, the service they provide and the vehicles they drive.

Pupils all have the opportunity to dress in real emergency service uniforms and all learn how to make a 999 call using our special telephone system.

The session includes:

• What is an emergency?
• Who are the emergency services?
• What do they wear?
• What do they drive?
• What do they do?
• Contacting the emergency services – which number to ring, which emergency service do the need, which information you may need to give the call handler from the emergency services.

This workshop equips young people with the knowledge and skills to save a life. It focusses on basic life support and bleeding.

This workshop includes:

1. Basic life support: approaching the scene, assessing a casualty, placing the casualty in the recovery position. 
2. Bleeding: types of bleeds, how to assess and respond to a bleed, use of bandages to take care of a person with a bleed. How to treat a casualty that is going into shock.

During the session children will also be taught how to communicate with an operator in an emergency call.  They will also receive a certificate from The Safety Centre.

Requirements: Hall space, mats – 1 between 2

Number of children: 15 minimum per group.

Length of workshop: 1hr 15mins.

*Please contact us if you would like a first aid session that covers the programme of study for a different year group.

This workshop equips young people with the knowledge and skills to stay safe as pedestrians, car passengers and drivers.

This workshop covers:

1. The responsibilities of being a pedestrian, passenger or driver
2. Identifying unsafe behaviours that could lead to accidents
3. The impact of taking risks and how to manage risks.

During the session children will also be taught how to communicate with an operator in an emergency call.

Number of children: Maximum 30.

Length of workshop: 1hr.

This session is aimed at Parents and Carers and identifies the positive aspects of using technology, as well as addressing the current risks that children can face online.   It looks at age-appropriate apps and games, as well as the risks associated with adults and children sharing too much information and being aware who children might be talking to online.

The sessions can be offered during the school day, after school or during the evening, they are strictly for parents only as the content is not suitable for children. There are a wide range of resources available for parents and carers to access after the session

The session lasts for approximately 75 minutes and can be delivered face to face in school, virtually via Zoom or as a remote link to a video

The session includes:

• Introduction – Up to date, key research findings and statistics concerning online safety for children.
• Risks faced by children: Sharenting, oversharing, photo/live streaming, grooming, social media, gaming, cyberbullying, sexting, challenges and dares.
• What parents can do – including setting parental controls, monitoring apps, conversations, and family agreements.
• Where to go for help