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Bullying, Drugs, Vandalism, Citizenship, Safety

Diversity (Anti Racism), Harmony (Anti Violence)

Learning for Life is a values education, life skills programme aiming to foster health, safety, personal and social development and to encourage good citizenship. The resources offer a continuum of learning for 5-13 year olds and promote a positive ethos and pro-social behaviour within the school community. At present, Learning for Life consists of two CD-ROMs; Volume One, which covers the topics Bullying, Drugs Sense and Vandalism and Volume Two, which covers Citizenship/Law and Order and Safety, and 'The Police Box – Learning for Life'; an off-screen, card-based resource with160 double-sided cards on the five sections. In Autumn 2004, Volume Three CD-ROM, which targets Diversity and Harmony, will also be available and similarly 'The Police Box – Learning for Life' will be updated with the eponymous new sections.

Bullying – promoting positive behaviour. 

  • Promotes personal and inter-personal skills and pro-social behaviour

  • Provides opportunity to consider the nature and effects of verbal, physical and racial abuse

  • Helps to identify support groups and prevention strategies

  • Considers rights and responsibility

Drug Sense – drug education for prevention.

  • Complies with Government 10 year strategy requirements

  • Contains comprehensive drug information and knowledge about drug use in society

  • Includes life skills – critical thinking, media analysis, risk assessment, consequences, bias, influence and stereotypes

Vandalism – good citizenship.

  • Promotes pro-social behaviour

  • Depicts types of vandalism – causes, consequences and prevention

  • Sharing and respecting values of self and others

  • Shows emotions and their effect upon behaviour

  • Considers rights and responsibility

Citizenship / Law and Order – pro-social behaviour, an awareness of how society functions and exercising social responsibility.

  • Encourages and supports the child to participate in the law making process

  • Fosters values – understanding, sharing, identifying personal and fundamental values

  • Traces the development of the Rights of the Child, Civil and Human

  • Considers rights and responsibility – individual, society, government

  • Promotes understanding of the function of rules and laws

  • Traces the development of laws, the law making process and sanctions

  • Displays the police and society now and then

Safety – personal and interpersonal skills, knowledge and behaviour.

  • Promotes safe keeping in a wide variety of contexts (including the internet)

  • Provides child protection strategies – ‘My Body, Mine Alone’ and ‘Secrets’

  • Raises awareness of the rights and responsibilities of the child

  • Supports personal safety strategies – who to trust, getting help and support, emergency responses, safe behaviour

  • Considers child accidents – cause analysis, consequences and prevention strategies

  • Builds observation, reporting and decision making skills

Diversity – serving to promote an inclusive and just society by challenging injustice, inequality, prejudice and discrimination. 

  • Encourages self esteem, respect, tolerance and empathy

  • Analyses power, influence, future lifestyles and aspirations in diversity issues

  • Confronts views and actions that are harmful to the well-being of communities

  • Promotes positive relationships and pro-social behaviours and inclusion

  • Challenges stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination

  • Appreciates and values cultural and community diversity and is respectful of others

Harmony – helping to alleviate the root causes of conflict and violence in society by supporting and promoting pro-social skills and behaviours. 

  • Promotes pro-social behaviours and positive relationships

  • Analyses emotional triggers and their impact on behaviour and attitude on a personal, social or global scale

  • Considers violence and its consequence in a variety of contexts, e.g. domestic, sporting and in the local community

  • Identifies a variety of anger management strategies

  • Considers conflict resolution

  • Audits perceptions of and analyses youth crime

  • Examines gang culture

Volumes One, Two and Three:

  • Deal with sensitive and topical issues such as Child Protection, Drugs, Relationships and Internet Safety.

  • Contain 155 fun and interactive lessons encouraging core skills.

  • Include clear lesson plans and extension activities linked to the Key Stages and 5-14 curriculum guidelines.

  • Provide a Teacher Information Section comprising in-service formats and comprehensive staff, curriculum and policy development materials, e.g. an illustrated drug database.

  • Promote parental and multi-agency involvement.

  • Contain 'The Police Box – Learning for Life'.

  • Have resource materials, which are all printable and can be photocopied.

  • Volume Three contains printable worksheets relevant to each lesson.

Learning for Life endeavours to bring key issues to the classroom and teaches children through a values education, life skills programme about topical subjects that are currently of paramount importance in education and society as a whole.

For further information, please visit our website:

www.learnforlife.org
 


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