School resources
School resources | Crime prevention | DARE | Road safety | Violence prevention | No Bully
The Youth Education Service produces a wide range of teaching programmes and resources which are available to schools from police education officers. Programmes and resources are grouped under the YES theme they support most, but many have relevance to more than one theme.
Police education officers are trained to work with teachers to develop additional resources that may be needed for a tailored class programme.
Crime Prevention and Social Responsibility
Programmes included in this theme are designed to encourage children and young people to behave responsibly, assist with crime prevention and help keep communities safe. Topics include stealing, vandalism, search and rescue, shoplifting, being lost, community support, fingerprinting, keeping law and order, the role of the police and police dogs.
DARE - Skills for Life
Included in this section is the range of DARE programmes, designed to empower young people to avoid illegal drugs and make sensible choices about their use of alcohol and other legal drugs. Some DARE programmes have been developed for use in school classrooms, including a programme in Maori for classes using Te Reo. Other programmes are for the community (parents/caregivers and young people in trouble), and are managed by the community section of DARE
School Road Safety Education
Programmes and resources in this theme have been designed to enable children and young people to act safely on roads and amongst traffic. The Road Safe series are integrated road safety programmes for years 0-13.
Parents may be interested in:
- Helping Hands [32 page PDF 377 KBytes] a road safety resource for paraents.
- Helping Hands in Chinese [36 page PDF 553 KBytes]
- Helping Hands in Korean [36 page PDF 449 KBytes]
- Helping Hands in Samoan [36 page PDF 353 KBytes]
- Helping Hands in Tongan [36 page PDF 382 KBytes]
Violence Prevention
Violence prevention programmes are designed to promote the development of non-violent relationships and to give children and young people skills to manage violence they may encounter. The child abuse prevention programme Keeping Ourselves Safe and the bullying prevention programme Kia Kaha are important in this theme. There are also teaching materials about keeping safe at home, babysitting and dealing with anger.
No Bully - Kia Kaha
Kia Kaha is a school based programme that aims to help schools create environments where all members of the community feel safe, respected and valued, and where bullying cannot flourish.
No Bully downloads:
- Stop Bullying 10 page PDF, 65 KB
- Stop Bullying - Arabic 2 page PDF, 322 KB
- Stop Bullying - Chinese 2 page PDF, 1021 KB
- Stop Bullying - Cook Islands Maori 3 page PDF, 876 KB
- Stop Bullying - Korean 2 page PDF, 858 KB
- Stop Bullying - Maori 2 page PDF, 852 KB
- Stop Bullying - Samoan 2 page PDF, 852 KB
- Stop Bullying - Somali 2 page PDF, 447 KB
- Stop Bullying - Tongan 2 page PDF, 472 KB
