Personal Safety in the Community

Curriculum details

Strand

The Family and the Community (Strand 4)

Sub-strand

Personal Safety in the Community (4.2)

Content standard

B2.4.2.1 - Identify ways of caring for the body

Indicator

B2.4.2.1.1 - Describe ways of promoting personal hygiene and safety in the community.

Suggested placement

Term 3, Week 10 (Week 34 of the year)

Our suggestion, laid out in curriculum order across three terms of twelve weeks. NaCCA does not fix the week, so follow your school's scheme of learning.

Source document note

The official curriculum document has a fault in this entry, so the curriculum text above is transcribed exactly as printed:

• content standard text - p.13

Curriculum reference

Religious and Moral Education Curriculum (Basic 1-6), 2019, p. 13

Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Personal Hygiene
- Have learners mention things they need in promoting personal hygiene practices: water, soap, tooth brush and tooth paste, nail cutter, etc.
- Let learners talk about things they do to show personal hygiene practices: bathing twice a day, brushing of the teeth, at least, twice daily, washing of clothes regularly, washing of hands regularly, etc.
- Through dramatisation, let learners demonstrate personal hygiene practices.
- Let learners draw items used in keeping their bodies clean.
Safety in the Community
- Have learners mention things they need in promoting safety in the community: brooms, scrubbing brushes, rakes, cutlasses, street lights, etc.
- Let learners talk about things that must be done to ensure safety in the community: clearing of surroundings, de-silting choked gutters, creating watch-dog groups and reporting crimes or criminals (bad people or bad behaviours), etc.
- Help learners demonstrate safe community practices.
- Let learners draw items used in keeping our communities clean.
- Let learners draw people who keep our communities safe.