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5 April 2017
The new Bryan and Bobby website features a number of educative videos starring this well-loved duo. Many of these videos are perfect for using with our resources, for example with 'Keeping Ourselves Safe' or 'Kia Kaha'. The website also includes some simple lesson plans to accompany each video.
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February 2017
Some of the downloadable documents in the Keeping Ourselves Safe, Kia Kaha and...
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February 2017
We’re pleased to announce Safer Schools, a new resource for senior primary/intermediate schools, based on the principles of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED). The resource consists of a structured series of learning...
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Read moreJanuary 2017Nigel Latta introduces a new 10-minute video that explains how Loves-Me-Not teaches senior secondary school students about healthy relationships. The film encourages parents to talk with their teenage children about navigating relationships and avoiding relationship abuse.Whilst primarily aimed at parents, this video is suitable for anyone...
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January 2017
The Loves-Me-Not resources have been revised as a result of feedback from last year's delivery in 72 secondary schools throughout New Zealand. The updated 2017 resources can now be downloaded from the Loves-Me-Not page.
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November 2016
A revised edition of the School Traffic Safety Team Manual was launched recently by the NZTA. All schools that have School Traffic Safety Teams (i.e. school patrols, school wardens or bus wardens) are being sent a hardcopy. The manual is also available online on the NZTA Education Portal...
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Read moreOctober 2016This month’s featured narrative is about a school-wide intervention with a rural primary school to address the safety of students when boarding school buses and crossing roads.The narrative describes a cross-section of responses...
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September 2016
Only occasionally is the abuser someone the child doesn’t know. More often it is someone the child, or the child’s family, knows and trusts. However the myth of ‘stranger danger’ continues.
'Stranger danger' is an outdated, discredited and potentially dangerous concept that the New Zealand Police has steered away from since the late 1980s.
Children need to know how to identify and tell a...
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September 2016
We’ve just posted a new sample schoolwide intervention plan addressing alcohol and other drugs (AoD) on the Partnerships in Practice page of the School Portal:
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Read moreJuly 2016This month’s selected narrative describes how Police partnered with a school that had identified a lack of positive values in a number of students across the year groups.Classroom behaviour had become harder to manage, low level stealing...
