Safe Behaviour at School Social Story

Written as a first-person social story, these pages walk a child through safe school behaviour, such as walking in hallways, staying in class and asking for help, along with calming strategies for upset moments.
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Updated Sep 27, 2021

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Social Skills, Special Resources
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Social Story, Behaviour Support
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Social stories use a patient and reassuring tone to teach children about social situations in a way that can be easily understood. Social stories are particularly useful for children on the autistic spectrum for whom social cues can be challenging and who often suffer anxiety if they do not know what to expect from a situation however social stories can also be useful for any child who is struggling to understand a situation or concept or needs help to understand a social skill or social cue, expectations, perspectives, common responses or is troubled about an upcoming event.

This social story is for children who act dangerously when in a heightened state of emotion. The story covers walking sensibly in corridors, remaining calm, not leaving the classroom without asking, not climbing, following teacher instructions and asking for help when it is needed.

These books should be used over and over to reinforce the point so I would suggest either putting the pages into a display book or laminating and binding them.

Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Name expected safe behaviours at school, such as listening to the teacher and not climbing

  • Identify calming strategies to use when upset, such as deep breaths or going to a quiet space

Teaching tips

  • Before reading, add a photo of the child's own quiet space to the placeholder page so the calming step points to a real place in the classroom.

Skills covered

  • Self-regulation — rehearsing the calming steps the story describes for anger, frustration or over-excitement

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