Health & Safety · Grade 5

Skills

• Manages the changes of early puberty with accurate information and without shame — including periods, for every child, not only girls.
• Knows why washing hands actually works.
• Knows smoking, alcohol and drugs harm a body, and specifically how.
• Recognises that food marketing targets children, and sees it happening.
• Knows that mental health is health: that sadness, worry and stress are real and treatable, and who to tell.
• Assesses a new situation for risk before joining in — thin ice, a high wall, a fast river, a dare.
• Says no to a friend's dangerous idea, and leaves.
• Knows how to get home from an unfamiliar place, with a plan that does not depend on a charged phone.
• Knows they are never at fault for what an adult did to them.
• Knows how to leave a situation that feels wrong without needing to justify it first.
• Knows the basic principle of CPR, and that an attempt is better than nothing.
• Assesses a scene for danger before approaching a casualty.
• Knows what someone's serious allergy, asthma inhaler or epilepsy needs, if a friend or a sibling has one.
• Keeps calm enough to be useful, and knows their first job is to get a competent adult there.