PANTS resources for schools and teachers
Lesson plans, classroom activities and more to help you talk PANTS
Download our free Talk PANTS resources, teaching children the Underwear Rule to help keep them safe from abuse.
We've developed:
- lesson plans
- slide presentations, and
- classroom activities
with the PSHE Association to help schools and nurseries talk PANTS with children, without ever using scary words or even mentioning sex.
The Quality Mark is awarded exclusively to resources that meet the PSHE Association’s best practice principles for safe and effective PSHE education.
You will also find resources for children with SEND, early years settings, working with diverse groups and links to the relevant curriculum areas in each of the four nations.
Download teaching resources for your classroom
Teaching guidance
How to use our resources when teaching children about PANTS. This includes information about safeguarding, creating a safe learning environment, curriculum links, further support, and a template letter to parents and carers.
Download PANTS teaching guidance (PDF)
Resources for early years - ages 3-5
Age-appropriate Talk PANTS presentation and learning plans for children in childcare settings and reception or foundation stage.
Download Activities plan for children aged 3-4 (PDF)
Download Activities plan for children aged 4-5 (PDF)
Download Presentation for children aged 3-5 (PDF)
Lesson plans for children aged 5-11
Age-appropriate lesson plans, slides, and resources to teach primary school children about PANTS and help keep them safe.
Download Lessons and resources for children aged 5-7 (ZIP)
Download Lesson and resources for children aged 7-9 (ZIP)
Download Lesson and resources for children aged 9-11 (ZIP)
Lesson plan for children with SEND
Lesson plan, slides, and resources for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) aged 4-11 to help them understand Talk PANTS. The lesson is tailored for use with children who have SEND, moderate learning difficulties, additional learning needs and/or autism.
Download Lesson and resources for children with SEND (ZIP)
School display pack and poster
Easy-to-use display board materials and poster to help you create a Talk PANTS display.
Download PANTS school display pack (PDF)
Download Talk PANTS poster (PDF)
Welsh resources
Our new, extended Talk PANTS teaching resources are now fully available in Welsh.
Download PANTS teaching guidance - Welsh (PDF)
Download Activities plan for children aged 3-4 – Welsh (PDF)
Download Activities plan for children aged 4-5 – Welsh (PDF)
Download Presentation for children aged 3-5 - Welsh (PDF)
Download Lessons and resources for children aged 5-7 - Welsh (ZIP)
Download Lesson and resources for children aged 7-9 - Welsh (ZIP)
Download Lesson and resources for children aged 9-11 - Welsh (ZIP)
Download Lesson and resources for children with SEND - Welsh (ZIP)
References
In partnership with
Talk PANTS song and animation
Get your class singing along with Pantosaurus - his song is a catchy introduction to the PANTS messages.
Buy: Pantosaurus and the Power of PANTS!
We've partnered with Penguin and Ladybird to create a roarsome Pantosaurus storybook for children aged 4-8 years old.
Pantosaurus and the Power of PANTS is available to buy from the NSPCC online shop and online and in-store from Matalan and Blakemore.
All profits from the sale of the book support our vital work in preventing abuse and protecting children.
Working with diverse groups
We want every parent or carer to be able to talk PANTS with their child. So we've produced a range of leaflets and resources to help those with additional needs have simple conversations to help keep children safe from sexual abuse.
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:
Download our guide for parents and carers of children with autism:
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
Helping local communities talk PANTS
Across the UK, schools have used our teaching resources with their pupils. And thousands of parents have talked PANTS with their children.
But we want to help every family have this important conversation. That's why we partner with organisations to help them talk PANTS in their community.
Whether holding workshops with professionals, webinars with parents or developing materials specific to your area, we'll work with you to help get everyone talking PANTS.
> Learn more about how we can work with your local community
Curriculum links
The Underwear Rule supports teaching in each of the four nations - see below for links specific to your curriculum.
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
Books to read with your class
We've put together some lists that you can read with your class to tie in with your Talk PANTS lessons, or when talking about other sensitive topics. You'll find them in the NPSCC Library:
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