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Get red, RED, ready for Day for Daniel 2020!

Why do we celebrate Day for Daniel? Friday 30th October 2020?

Day for Daniel is Australia’s largest child safety event of its kind. It is held in schools, workplaces, early childhood centres and public and private events across the nation.

The Daniel Morcombe Foundation has produced the Keeping Kids Safe resource to support students Recognise, React and Report when they feel unsafe. Developing an understanding of respectful relationships is also a key learning area within the resource. Keeping Kids Safe is age and developmentally appropriate and contains short video vignettes to promote classroom discussion and completion of in class activity worksheets.

They are used as part of our comprehensive whole school approach to personal safety education and are aligned with the following:

· Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA)

· Daniel Morcombe Child Safety Curriculum within Health and Physical Education

The Daniel Morcombe website has a range of resources to support Australia’s biggest child safety lesson. I have attached a link for parents or carers to view a video with your child to encourage discussions about personal safety.

https://danielmorcombe.com.au/australias-biggest-child-safety-lesson-2/ 

Within the Keeping Kids Safe educational resources, there is a section with videos and activities will have worked through at school. These resources are developed for home and school to support students with a better understand of child safety and it also has a part there for our students with intellectual disability, it covers the following areas of

· Rules for being safe

· Being safe

· Recognise body clues

· React to feeling unsafe

· Making a safety network

· Safe internet use Finally,

I have attached a link for parents/carers with safety parent advice and support agency links. https://danielmorcombe.com.au/keeping-kids-safe-resources/parents_carers/ 

This Friday it is come to school in your best red outfit and if you would like to donate a gold coin, this can now be done through our QKR app. This app is a simple and easy app that Calliope State School has implemented through the P & C to help with any purchases or donations the school may ask and not to mention our uniform and tuckshop ordering.

Please, if you have a spare $1 or $2 please think about donating it to the Daniel Morcombe foundation and let’s keep supporting a well deserved foundation.