We have been supporting our children with learning about keeping safe and their rights. 

As part of our quality improvement at Denman pre-school the staff and I focussed on introducing SIMOA the elephant to the children and their parents. 

In pre-school we use SIMOA as an everyday resource to embed safety and to ensure children feel safe. For example, we ask the children if SIMOA would think they are being safe in everyday activities. 

We shared all this information with our parents and once we felt the children started to have an understanding of why SIMOA is in their setting we sent him home weekly with the children alongside a diary so the children and parents could record how they keep safe out with the pre-school environment. 

As SIMOA the elephant supported the children to understand safety we recently introduced Paddington as our rights respecting bear who now goes home along with his own diary to support children to learn about their rights.