Tell a Trusted Adult

An essential aspect of social and emotional learning is empowering children to stay safe. By teaching them to notice and name their body signals or ‘early warning signs’, we can help them recognise when things aren’t quite right and ask for help.

Tell a Trusted Adult is the perfect resource for early learning educators, primary teachers, parents and anyone working with children and families.

The set includes 13 paired cards and 9 activity cards and feature gentle, original artwork. As the cards have no words, they are ideal for use with children who have low literacy levels, visual learners, and individuals from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Great for helping children build their social and emotional literacy.

Tell a Trusted Adult includes practical guidance for educators about how to have challenging conversations with children about safety and can be used in classrooms, groups, or one-on-one conversations.

• 35 full-colour cards (130mm x 190mm) in a sturdy folio box

BONUS: Free access to the Tell a Trusted Adult Digital Toolbox

• Digital version of the cards and a digital booklet full of ideas for using the cards
• Extra support resources including ideas bank, card hacks and blogs

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• Describing feelings and body signals: What do your body signals tell you? Can you give an example of when you listened to a body signal? What happened? Can you find one or more cards that shows how you’re feeling right now? Which ones would you like to feel more often? Which ones would you like to feel less often?
• Creating a safety plan: Choose some cards where the character feels unsafe. Do you feel like that sometimes? Which body signals might tell you that? Name 5 safe adults you could talk to if you were feeling scared or worried. What else could you do?
• Developing empathy: Choose a few cards randomly. What do you think is happening for each of the characters? What do you think the character was doing just before this moment? What do you think they would do next. What would you do?
• Using pairs: Find a pair of cards. How do you think the characters is feeling in the two cards? How do you know (facial expression or body signals)?

For more inspiration, explore our Ideas Bank.