Run a safety week in your school: a simple 4-week plan
A plan for principals: prepare in week 1, teach one lesson a day in week 2, bring parents in during week 3, celebrate in week 4.
Written with the help of AI
Key takeaways
- Spread the effort over four weeks: prepare, teach, involve parents, celebrate.
- Teach one lesson and one rule a day: a two-minute video in assembly, then a class discussion and a quiz.
- Check gate and child-protection procedures with staff before the week begins.
- Send parents a short message so children hear the same rules at home.
- Close with a certificate assembly, and replay the lessons later so the rules stick.
A safety week works best when it is not a one-off assembly but a short, planned effort that involves teachers, children and parents. The plan below spreads the work over four weeks so that no one feels overloaded, and it uses free resources you can open on any smartboard or projector.
It is built around the five free Safety Stars lessons from SchoolTrendz Kids: short animated videos in English and Hinglish, each with a quiz and a certificate. Adapt it freely to your school’s calendar and classes.
Week 1: Prepare
Goal: everyone knows the plan before children hear a word.
- Watch all five lessons with your coordinators. Together they take about eight minutes. Decide which classes will take part; the lessons are made for children of about 5 to 10 years.
- Brief class teachers in a short staff meeting. Show them the teacher notes on the Safety Stars page: three discussion questions and one short activity for each lesson.
- Check your own procedures. The lessons teach children to go to their teacher or the school guard when someone unknown comes to collect them. Make sure gate staff know what to do next, and that every teacher knows your child-protection procedure in case a child shares something worrying.
- Fix the dates for the safety week and the closing assembly, and put them in the school calendar.
Week 2: Safety week, one lesson a day
Goal: one simple rule each day, said by the whole school.
- Monday: My Trusted Grown-ups. Rule: “Tell a trusted grown-up!”
- Tuesday: Surprise or Secret? Rule: “Share secrets that worry you!”
- Wednesday: No, Go, Tell! Rule: “No, Go, Tell!”
- Thursday: Safe at the School Gate. Rule: “Never go without checking!”
- Friday: Never Share an OTP! Rule: “Never share an OTP!”
Each day, follow the same short routine:
- Assembly, about 5 minutes: play the day’s video. Every video is under two minutes long.
- Class period, 10 to 15 minutes: the class teacher asks the three questions from the teacher notes and runs the activity, such as tracing a Safety Hand or acting out the school gate scene.
- Quiz: do the five-question quiz together on the smartboard. For younger classes, the Listen button reads each question aloud.
Week 3: Bring parents in
Goal: the same rules at home as at school.
Send a short message to parents through your usual channel. For example:
Dear parents, this week our students learnt five simple safety rules through short videos called Safety Stars. Please ask your child to teach you the rules, and watch the videos together at home in English or Hinglish. Two things you can do this week: make a family code word for anyone who picks your child up from school, and remind your child never to share an OTP from your phone. Thank you for helping us keep our children safe.
Add the links to the end of the message: www.schooltrendz.com/kids for English and www.schooltrendz.com/hi/kids for Hinglish.
Also this week:
- Practise the school gate rule. In class, children act out the scene from lesson 4: someone at the door says “Your Papa sent me!”, and the child says “No” and walks to the teacher.
- Let children catch up at home. A child who missed a day can watch the lesson and take the quiz with their parents.
Week 4: Celebrate and review
Goal: children feel proud, and the school learns for next time.
- Hold a certificate assembly. After each quiz, children can download a certificate with their name as a picture or a PDF, and those who finish all five lessons unlock a Safety Stars Champion certificate. Print a few for each class and call your Safety Stars up on stage.
- Play a quick review game. Read out situations and let the whole school answer with the rule: “A stranger offers you a chocolate.” “No, Go, Tell!”
- Run a short staff review. What worked? Which class needs a repeat? Did any parent or child raise a concern that needs follow-up?
- Plan the reminder. Rules stick when they come back. Replay one lesson in assembly every few weeks, or at the start of the next term.
What you need
- A smartboard, or a laptop with a projector, and an internet connection.
- The Safety Stars pages in English and Hindi, with Hinglish videos. No login or sign-up is needed, and no details about children are collected.
- A printer, if you want to hand out the certificates on paper.
That is all: four weeks, a few minutes a day, and the children in your primary classes leave with five simple rules and the confidence to use them.