Talk PANTS is an NSPCC campaign to keep children safe from sexual abuse.
Our videos, lesson plans, classroom activities and supporting resources help you to deliver age-appropriate sessions with children aged 3- to 11-years-old.
PANTS resources for schools and teachers
Lesson plans, videos and more to help you Talk PANTS
Our free resources will help you Talk PANTS with children in your care from early years settings to primary school classrooms.
We provide everything you need to run a session or lesson:
- teaching guidance and curriculum links
- presentations, videos and worksheets
- parent and carer resources and posters.
All resources use age-appropriate language, without mentioning sex and are available in English and Welsh.
Resources for children aged 3 to 11 years in English
You can download all of the lesson plans together in one ZIP file or individually.
We recommend reading the Talk PANTS teaching guidance before delivering the sessions.
The teaching guidance includes information about creating a safe learning environment, curriculum links and a template letter to parents and carers.
Age-appropriate Talk PANTS presentation and learning plans for children in childcare settings and reception or foundation stage.
Download Presentation for children aged 3-5 (PDF)
Our activities plans offer an introduction to the Talk PANTS rules.
Age-appropriate lesson plan, slides, and resources to teach primary school children about PANTS and help keep them safe.
Age-appropriate lesson plans, slides, and resources to teach primary school children about PANTS and help keep them safe.
Lesson plan, slides and resources for children who have special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and additional support needs (ASN) aged 4 to 11 to help them understand Talk PANTS.
The lesson is tailored for use with children who have SEND, moderate learning difficulties and/or autism.
Download Lesson and resources for children who have SEND (ZIP)
Our simple guide will help parents and carers teach their children the PANTS rules.
Download guide for children who have learning disabilities (PDF)
Easy-to-use display board materials and poster to help you create a Talk PANTS display.
Videos and guides about the PANTS rules for children who communicate using Makaton and their parents or carers.
Get your class singing along with Pantosaurus - his song is a catchy introduction to the PANTS messages.
Resources for children aged 3 to 11 years in Welsh
Our Talk PANTS teaching resources are now fully available in Welsh.
Download all resources for 3- to 11-year-olds in Welsh (ZIP)
We recommend reading the Talk PANTS teaching guidance before delivering the sessions.
The teaching guidance includes information about creating a safe learning environment, curriculum links and a template letter to parents and carers.
Age-appropriate Talk PANTS presentation and learning plans for children in childcare settings and reception or foundation stage.
Download Presentation for children aged 3 to 5 in Welsh (PDF)
Our activities plans offer an introduction to the Talk PANTS rules.
Download Activities plan for children aged 3 to 4 in Welsh (PDF)
Download Activities plan for children aged 4 to 5 in Welsh (PDF)
Age-appropriate lesson plan, slides, and resources to teach primary school children about PANTS and help keep them safe.
Download Lessons and resources for children aged 5 to 7 in Welsh (ZIP)
Age-appropriate lesson plans, slides, and resources to teach primary school children about PANTS and help keep them safe.
Download Lesson and resources for children aged 7 to 9 in Welsh (ZIP)
Download Lesson and resources for children aged 9 to 11 in Welsh (ZIP)
Lesson plan, slides and resources for children who have additional learning needs (ALN) aged 4 to 11 to help them understand Talk PANTS.
The lesson is tailored for use with children who have ALN, moderate learning difficulties and/or autism.
Download Lesson and resources for children who have ALN in Welsh (ZIP)
Our simple guide will help parents and carers teach their children the PANTS rules.
Download guide for children who have learning disabilities in Welsh (PDF)
Easy-to-use display board materials and poster to help you create a Talk PANTS display.
Get your class singing along with Pantosaurus - his song is a catchy introduction to the PANTS messages.
Parent and carer resources
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.
Our teacher guidance also contains a template letter to send to parents and carers to inform them you will be teaching their child the Talk PANTS rules.
Download teaching guidance containing template letter to send to parents and carers (PDF)
Share our Talk PANTS introduction video with parents and carers on YouTube
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 safe adult.
Our simple guides will help parents and carers teach their children the PANTS rules.
Download guides for:
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.
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- to 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
Acknowledgements
We’ve created a series of videos to help you deliver Talk PANTS resources, funded by The Executive Office in Northern Ireland.
We have developed Talk PANTS resources with the PSHE Association which are also available in Welsh.
The Quality Mark is awarded exclusively to resources that meet the PSHE Association’s best practice principles for safe and effective PSHE education.