Learning with Your SCPO

The All Wales School Liaison Core Programme is a series of lessons that span Foundation Phase to Key Stage 4 (pupils age 5–16 years) raising awareness of community issues and promoting crime prevention. These messages are delivered by School Community Police Officers (SCPO).

The Programme is a spiral scheme of work with each lesson being age appropriate with up to date contents building on the previous one. The lesson matrix shows the extent of the Programme available to schools. Follow-up work for teachers on these topics is also available in the teachers' section.

As part of the Programme weapons is a key issue. This lesson deals directly with the topic and an overview is described below:

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Key Stage 3 Why Weapons? (11–14 year olds)

Using a variety of activities pupils learn to understand the risks and consequences of carrying weapons. The lesson raises awareness of risk situations, the law regarding weapons in public places, on school premises and the Police response.