Everyday Safety Awareness
Your child knows basic safety rules for roads, strangers, water and screens. They know their trusted adults, and when to tell them.
In curriculum terms
Keep themselves safe in everyday situations — knowing basic safety rules about roads, strangers, water, and the internet — and understanding who their trusted adults are and when to tell them something
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How to tell they’ve got it
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Does your child know their basic safety rules — like not going off with someone they don't know, looking both ways before crossing, and telling you if something online makes them uncomfortable?
Where this sits on the map
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 2 NSW · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
identify and demonstrate protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies they can use to help them and others stay safe
investigate and apply behaviours that contribute to their own and others’ health, safety, relationships and wellbeing
demonstrate protective behaviours, name body parts and rehearse help-seeking strategies that help keep them safe
NSW syllabus codes & stages only
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.