WALT: Make safe choices in different situations. Understand the possible dangers from making the wrong choices.

Sometimes it is difficult to make safe choices…

What difficult choices have you made? How did you make the right choices?

What would have happened if you had made the wrong choices?

Let’s put our heads together to help Annie make the right choice… Raj: ‘wow, look at these matches I’ve found in the kitchen, why don’t we try lighting them Annie’

What do you think Annie should do?

Annie and her friend choose not to play with the matches. CHOICE 1: Annie: ‘no, I’m not so sure…I think they might be dangerous!’ Annie and her friend choose not to play with the matches.

Annie: ‘yeh, cool, let’s try to light them!’ CHOICE 2: Annie: ‘yeh, cool, let’s try to light them!’ Annie and her friend decide to light the matches. Annie badly burns her fingers and has to go to hospital.

CHOICE 3: Annie and Raj light the matches and watch them burn until they go out. They were lucky this time! Next time they may not be SO LUCKY… Never play with matches!!

CHALLENGING CHOICES In your groups, you are going to practise acting out some choices in role plays. Some may be good choices… Some may be difficult choices… Some choices may be the wrong ones…

These are the choices you need to think about. BUT… The important thing is that you THINK hard about your choices. These are the choices you need to think about.

‘Let’s explore the building site’ whispered Shivani to her friends, ‘it’ll be so exciting!’ 2. ‘Wow, these brightly coloured sweets I’ve found in mum and dad’s bedroom look good’ said Nina excitedly, ‘shall we find out what they taste like?’ 3. ‘I know a really good game’ laughed George, ‘skateboarding down the stairs, no-one will ever know, it’ll be great fun!’ 4. ‘Oh look’, said Abdi anxiously to his friends as they walked home from school, ‘that person is following us, what shall we do?’ 5. ‘I’ve found this yummy looking pink drink in the garage, I don’t know what it is – shall we try drinking it to see what it tastes like?’ asked Jack. 6. ‘Hey, you’ve kicked the football into the road Lewis – you’d better run and get it!’ shouted Priyal angrily, ‘we want to get on with the game!’

Decide who is playing the roles Decide what you want to say Remember… Decide who is playing the roles Decide what you want to say Think about what the choices are You have 10 minutes to practise your mini plays. You will then be performing them to the class. GOOD LUCK!