Prevent: Stay Safe Together
Prevent: Stay Safe Together
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Prevent: Stay Safe Together
Open gently and clearly. This lesson should stay age-appropriate and non-graphic. Emphasise safety, community, and getting help from trusted adults.
Our learning goal
I can understand what Prevent means, use key words about feelings and safety, and explain how respect, tolerance, and safeguarding help stop terrorism.
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What words do you think of with safety?
Use this to surface simple prior ideas such as safe, help, teacher, home, calm, fear, support. Accept single words or very short phrases.
What is Prevent?
Prevent is about keeping people safe.
It helps stop people from being drawn into terrorism.
Prevent is part of safeguarding. Safeguarding means protecting children, young people, and adults from harm.
Keep the definition simple. For Pre-A1 learners, repeat key phrases: keep safe, stop harm, get help.
Key words
life - a person being alive
harm - hurt or danger
scared - feeling afraid
angry - feeling mad
sad - feeling unhappy
Pre-teach pronunciation and meaning with simple gestures or facial expressions if helpful.
Feelings and safety
After violence, people may feel:
scared
angry
sad
These feelings are normal.
People need support, safety, and calm information.
Make clear that learning about safety can bring up emotions. Signpost trusted adults in school.
What is Prevent about?
Keeping people safe
Closing schools
Planning trips
Giving homework
Checks the core definition from slides 2-4. Distractors are clearly wrong for Pre-A1 learners.
Complete the key words
After violence, people may feel scared, angry, or sad. Safeguarding means protecting people from harm.
Reuses the exact vocabulary taught in slides 3-4 so students practise key words in context.
What is terrorism?
Terrorism is serious violence or threats of violence.
It is used to hurt people, damage places, and make people scared.
Terrorists may attack because of extreme political, religious, or social ideas.
Keep language concrete. Avoid overloading students with legal detail. The key idea is violence used to spread fear.
What terrorism does
Terrorism can:
take life
cause harm
make families and communities scared
damage trust and safety
It affects many people, not only those at the place of the attack.
Reinforce the key vocabulary life, harm, scared. Keep focus on impact rather than graphic detail.
What does terrorism try to do?
Make people scared
Help people learn
Build more homes
Make people laugh
Based on slides 5-6: violence used to hurt people and spread fear.
How might people feel after an attack?
Scared
Sad
Angry
All of these
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Examples in recent years
There have been terrorist attacks in different places in recent years.
Examples include attacks in:
Manchester Arena in 2017
London Bridge in 2017
Southport in 2024, where terrorism charges were later reported in the case
These events harmed people and made many others feel scared and sad.
Use caution with Southport: mention only in a simple, factual way and avoid legal detail beyond what has been publicly reported. Do not discuss graphic specifics.
A public example: Manchester
In 2017, a bomb attack happened at Manchester Arena.
Many people were injured and some people lost their lives.
People across the UK felt shocked, sad, and scared.
The community came together to support each other.
Keep this short and calm. Emphasise community response and support rather than attack details.
Why people talk about Prevent
Prevent tries to stop danger before violence happens.
It is about noticing warning signs, listening to concerns, and helping people early.
The aim is to protect everyone and reduce the risk of harm.
You can contrast Prevent with emergency response: Prevent is early help and protection, not punishment on its own.
Which place was named as a 2017 example?
London Bridge
Big Ben
Bristol Zoo
Heathrow Airport
Checks recall from the recent examples slide. Only one option matches the taught content.
Complete the sentence
Prevent tries to stop danger before violence happens. It helps people early and reduces the risk of harm.
Anchors the main idea from slide 9: early action, not waiting until after violence.
Respect and tolerance
Two important ideas are respect and tolerance.
respect means treating people well
tolerance means accepting differences
When people live together peacefully, hate and violence are less likely to grow.
Keep tolerance concrete: different beliefs, backgrounds, cultures. Link to daily school life.
Safeguarding everyone
Safeguarding means protecting people from harm.
In school and college, safeguarding can include:
listening to worries
sharing concerns with the right staff
helping people feel safe
acting early when something seems wrong
If useful, name local roles such as tutor, safeguarding lead, or pastoral staff, but keep the slide generic.
Getting help early
If a person is worried about violence or extreme ideas, they should speak to a trusted adult.
This could be a teacher, tutor, safeguarding lead, parent, or carer.
Early help can protect life and prevent harm.
Avoid turning this into an activity. Simply explain the help pathway and reassure learners that adults are there to keep people safe.
How attacks can be stopped
Attacks can be harder to carry out when people:
report serious concerns
protect and support others
challenge hate safely
build respect and tolerance
follow safeguarding procedures
Stopping harm is a shared responsibility.
Do not suggest that students investigate anything themselves. The safe message is tell a trusted adult or the proper authorities.
A safer community
Prevent is not about blaming whole groups of people.
It is about:
safety
support
respect
early help
The goal is to keep communities peaceful and protect everyone from harm.
Important misconception to address: Prevent should not be framed as suspicion towards a religion or community. Keep the focus on safeguarding and safety.
What does tolerance mean here?
Accepting differences
Ignoring danger
Winning arguments
Changing beliefs
Checks understanding of respect and tolerance from slide 10.
Complete the safety message
A trusted adult can help when someone is worried. In school, safeguarding means protecting people from harm. Respect and tolerance help keep communities peaceful.
Brings together slides 11-14: help early, safeguarding, and respectful communities.
Who can you talk to if you are worried?
Expected ideas: tell a trusted adult, share concerns with the right staff, act early, support safety. Accept any very short safe action phrase.
What is one thing you learned today?
Reflection only. Encourage simple answers such as Prevent, respect, trusted adult, safety, or tolerance.
How do you feel about this lesson now?
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What helped you understand best?
Reflection only. Students may mention pictures, key words, examples, teacher explanation, or discussion.
Glossary
Prevent - work to stop people being drawn into terrorism
terrorism - serious violence or threats used to cause fear
safeguarding - protecting people from harm
respect - treating other people well
tolerance - accepting people who are different
trusted adult - a safe adult who can help
community - a group of people living or working together
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Glossary
life - a person being alive
harm - hurt, injury, or danger
scared - feeling afraid
angry - feeling mad
sad - feeling unhappy
violence - behaviour that hurts people
safe - protected from danger
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