Protective Behaviours
Leeming Senior High School Education Support Centre
Protective Behaviours are recognised by Leeming ESC to be crucial to post-school safety, employability, and community access for all students. Our Protective Behaviour Program has been developed using researched models and integrating the important aspects across all curriculum areas. Students are explicitly taught individualised skills and strategies to identify, respond to and seek assistance in a range of unsafe situations, as well as strengthen the resilience of adolescents as they grow and develop.
Leeming SHS ESC teachers have been trained to use the SoSAFE program as a strategy to ensure the students are provided with a structured, consistent communication and action plan . The SoSAFE program and SECCA app support teaching Protective Behaviours. The explicit rule-based format allows students to respond appropriately to “early warning signs”. Students are explicitly taught the terms ‘Consent’ and ‘No Consent’ in day-to-day life situations.
The Protective Behaviours program has two core themes:
- We all have the right to feel safe at all times
- We can talk about anything with a trusted someone, no matter what it is.
Within the core themes, there are key concepts of:
- Feelings and Feeling safe/Feeling unsafe
- Zones of Regulation
- Early warning signs
- Safety continuum and problem-solving
- Safe surprises and unsafe secrets
- Networks
- Persistence
- Body awareness and Body ownership, Public and Private
- Personal Space
- Consent
- Assertiveness
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Any absences need to be advised to the school. Please contact the school if your child will be absent by filling in the form below
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