DOG, DUCK & CAT
About Us
Dog, Duck & Cat provides educational, preventative, harm minimisation resources for young people, aged 4 to 9 years of age, with a focus on safeguarding, promoting safety and developing a child’s resilience
Easy access for everyone
The approach is simple yet effective. The Dog, Duck and Cat characters are utilised, in story form, to help adults educate children about a range of different subjects. The resources have also been created to allow older children to use them for themselves, thus increasing opportunities for the messages to be delivered to our audience. The resources are available online, but the Trust endeavour to make printed resources available whenever possible, as children have told us they ‘like having the story books and activities to play with’.
Hey, Parents and Carers!
We’ve got something for you too! We provide story resources for you to use with your little ones. Because let’s face it, keeping kids safe is a team effort, and we need everyone on board.
We’re all about promoting Quality Time with your kids. We’ve got stories and activities for you to enjoy together, so why not put down the phone and have some fun?
By spending quality time together, we’re not just having fun, we’re also building strong bonds. It’s a great way to help kids feel safe and secure, so they know they can talk to us about anything.
Aims of Dog, Duck & Cat
- For children to learn about staying safe, in a way that is fun and age appropriate, in their day to day lives and in their local community
- To address, and educate on, subjects that affect a child’s mental health and emotional well being online courses
- To promote ‘safety first’ thinking, both inside the home and in the community
- To ensure children receive consistent safeguarding messages to prevent household accidents and incidents
- To assist Parents, Carers and Guardians (PCG) in building rapport with their children
- To promote Quality Time, between PCGs and their children, to build a child’s resilience
- To provide resources to facilitate Quality time taking place
- To ensure children know, and they believe, that they have a person in their life, that they trust and can to talk to, if they are ever worried or scared about anything, no matter how awful or small their concern may be
Don’t just take our word for it...
What has Dog, Duck and Cat achieved for our staff and children? Dog, Duck and Cat is an easy usable resource for staff to plan PSHE/Safeguarding lessons around a number of topics which are linked to trends of concerns we have in our school. The lesson plans and resources are easy to use and accessible for teachers and support staff.
These sessions have been used in 1-1, small group and Nurture group intervention. This programme provides use with tools to support our children so they know how to keep themselves safe and to build up resilience from Early Years to Year 6
Safeguarding Lead
Long Primary School
