Anti Bully & Safety at Junior School
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We work with primary schools around the country - from Bournemouth to Smethwick and St Albans.
We tailor our work to your requirements, with talks and courses on Cyberbullying, Assertiveness and Confidence Building, Personal Safety and how to respond appropriately to a bully.
If children are helped at such an early age, they grow up stronger and better equipped to deal with the situations we are often asked to help with when they have transitioned to secondary school.
Not only do the children receive training that hugely boosts assertiveness skills and confidence...they also work better together, they are less disruptive, they are more confident in putting their hands up to ask questions and saying no to things they don't feel comfortable doing.
Our work dovetails beautifully with the RoSPA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents)10 Principles of Effective Safety Education.
We work with all communities, and have experience of working with a wide range of children, including those with dyspraxia, dyslexia, learning difficulties, hearing difficulties, poor sight, poor hearing, wheelchair bound, with ADHD, Asperger's and other autistic characteristics. We work closely with the specialist pastoral and student support staff in schools and local authorities.
Such training can be with or without the added benefit and extra confidence booster of realistic self defence training.
Feedback from one school which did the training without self defence
Feedback from a school which did the training including self defenceOur Child emPowering Assertiveness Confidence Training courses are tailored for every school/club/organisation, but we can include the following elements:
- Anti-bullying
- Cyberbullying
- Setting Boundaries
- Assertiveness
- Anti-abduction
- Effectively attracting help from strangers
- Distraction techniques
- Practical self defence - designed to buy time to get away.
We do not give children false confidence that they can overpower grown adults, but we do provide techniques which will buy them enough time to escape from a predator and raise the alarm. We instill in them a true sense of confidence that they can usually keep people at a safe distance by making themselves a much harder target. This is reality-based training and so since "usually" does not always apply, we train them how to use proven physical defence techniques against a fully grown man as a last resort to enable their safe escape from a nasty situation.
If faced with a predator, the children we train have the ability to gain enough time to get away and be safe.