The Talk PANTS campaign helps parents of 4-11 year-olds keep their children safe from abuse. Like the Green Cross Code, it takes a potentially tricky subject and gives parents and teachers the tools to talk about it in an engaging and age-appropriate way. 
Learning objectives
Children will be able to:
• understand and learn the PANTS rules
• name body parts and know which parts should be private
• know the difference between appropriate and inappropriate touch
• understand that they have the right to say “no” to unwanted touch
• start thinking about who they trust and who they can ask for help.
Having introduced the PANTS rules to the class, we then discussed the Talk PANTS poster and acrostic poem. Taking each sentence in turn, Year 4 took turns in explaining what they thought each letter of PANTS stands for. The children were encouraged to say the meanings out loud as a chant.
After a lengthy, mature discussion the children thought about the people in their life who they feel they could confide in and trust.
Finally, the class were given the opportunity to choose an appropriate learning objective for this lesson. Some of the children then had a go at writing their own acrostic poem.
