Keeping Ourselves Safe (KOS)

Keeping Ourselves Safe (KOS) is a comprehensive child protection programme in which the students at Leabank School can learn and apply a range of safety skills that they can use when interacting with others. Term 2 will see the entire school focusing on ways children can keep themselves safe. (KOS)

Below are KOS resources that parents and whanau might find helpful and provides more information about what the police KOS programme is all about.

• Are Your Kids Safe: A Pamphlet for Parents, Caregivers and Whānau (PDF) – in English
• Kei te Noho Haumaru āu Tamariki? (PDF) – Te reo version
• Keeping Kiwi Kids Safer in Cyberspace: A Pamphlet for Parents and Caregivers (PDF)
• Safely Home: A Guidebook for Parents and Caregivers (PDF) – how to ensure the safety of children left on their own
• Keeping Kids Safer: A Guidebook for Parents and Caregivers to Help Keep Children Safer from Abuse (PDF) – This resource was adapted from the project No Excuse for Abuse! by the Young New Zealanders’ Foundation
• Keeping Ourselves Safe: A Pamphlet for Parents, Caregivers and Whānau (PDF) – describes the Keeping Ourselves Safe programme
• Te Haumaru i a Tātou Ake (PDF) – describes the Keeping Ourselves Safe programme in Te Reo.