Year+8+Health+Notice

Monday May 18, 2009 Dear Parents and Caregivers In Weeks 7, 8 & 9, Year 8 classes will be taking part in the unit **Standing up for Myself,** which is part of the safety programme **Keeping Ourselves Safe.** It has three overall aims: To be successful, **Keeping Ourselves Safe** needs your help and support. Some Home Book Activities will come home for you to work on with your child. It is important that you participate as much as possible, so that you can reinforce the messages children are getting and help your child use his or her new skills with confidence. Please contact me at school if you would like any more information about the programme or about child abuse.
 * Keeping Ourselves Safe ** has been designed to provide children with the skills to cope in situations that might involve abuse.
 * To develop and strengthen skills children need to keep themselves safe;
 * To support and encourage abused children to get help from caring adults;
 * To make parents and teachers more aware of the need to keep children from being abused be adults or older children.
 * Standing up for Myself ** has been developed by the New Zealand Police. It will be taught by you child’s teacher, with help from a police education officer as required.