PANTS resources for schools and teachers

Recorded with British Sign Language and subtitles, this video aims to teach d/Deaf children about the PANTS rules and encourages them to share secrets that upset them with a trusted adult.

Our simple guides will help parents and carers teach their children the PANTS rules.

Download guides for: 

• children with learning disabilities (PDF) 
• children with learning disabilities in Welsh (PDF)
• parents or carers who have learning disabilities (PDF) 
• parents or carers who have learning disabilities in Welsh (PDF).

Download our guide for parents and carers of children with autism:

• Talk PANTS guide for parents or carers of children who have autism (PDF)

Videos and guides about the PANTS rules for children who communicate using Makaton and their parents or carers.

Watch the videos with subtitles

Download resources for parents and carers of children who use Makaton

Prompt cards for parents (PDF)

Children's guide (PDF)

Parents' and carers' guide (PDF)

Early Years

The Underwear Rule supports the statutory framework for the Early Years foundation stage.

Personal, social and emotional development

Pupils learn:

• to talk about their own and others' behaviour, its consequences, and to know that some behaviour is unacceptable

Making relationships

Pupils learn:

• to form positive relationships with adults and others.

Key Stage 1 (PSHE)

There is no statutory framework for PSHE at Key Stage 1, but the National Curriculum framework states that schools need to make provision for the subject.

PSHE core theme 1: Health and Wellbeing

Pupils learn:

• ways of keeping physically and emotionally safe
• how to make informed choices about health and wellbeing and to recognise sources of help with this.

PSHE core theme 2: Relationships

Pupils learn:

• how to recognise risky or negative relationships including all forms of bullying and abuse
• how to respond to risky or negative relationships and ask for help.

> Find out more about relationships education for primary schools from GOV.UK

Key Stage 1 and 2

Personal Development and Mutual Understanding (PDMU)

Personal Development and Mutual Understanding is one of the statutory elements of the curriculum in Northern Ireland. This is organised into different themes, one of which is 'Safety'. Pupils should be enabled to explore strategies and skills for how to keep safe in familiar and unfamiliar environments.
Foundation Stage: Theme 4a Safety – Strand One: Personal Understanding and Health

Pupils learn:

• to explore appropriate personal safety strategies
• to explore feelings associated with being safe/not safe.
• to identify simple strategies for keeping safe e.g. say 'no', get help
• to identify people who help to keep us safe throughout the day
• to identify situations that are safe and those where personal safety may be at risk.

Key stage 1: Theme 4a Safety – Strand One: Personal Understanding and Health

Pupils learn:

• what to do or whom to seek help from when feeling unsafe
• to develop simple safety rules and strategies to protect themselves from potentially dangerous situations.

Key stage 2: Theme 4a Safety – Strand One: Personal Understanding and Health

Pupils learn:

• to develop strategies to resist unwanted peer/sibling pressure and behaviour
• to become aware of the potential danger of relationships with strangers or acquaintances, including good and bad touches.

> Find out more about the PDMU curriculum from NI Curriculum

Early and First

Health and Wellbeing

Health and Wellbeing is part of the Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) in Scotland. CfE is a framework and its implementation is decided by local authorities and/or individual schools.

Pupils learn:

• to understand positive things about friendships and relationships, and who they can talk to if they are worried or upset
• to develop their understanding of the human body, using this knowledge to maintain and improve their wellbeing and health.

> Find out more about the Health and Wellbeing curriculum from Education Scotland

Personal and Social Education (PSE) curriculum

Health and Emotional Wellbeing

Health and Emotional Wellbeing is a feature of Personal and Social Education at Key Stage 2. PSE is part of the basic curriculum in Wales for 7-16 year olds.

Pupils learn:

• the importance of personal safety
• how to distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate touching
• what to do or to whom to go when feeling unsafe.

> Find out more about the PSE curriculum in Wales on the Hwb website