Amazing ME – Video One

Link to Te Whaariki
Goal - Well-being - The health and well-being of the child is protected and nurtured.

Video one enhances a child's well-being by promoting their self esteem. The messages the video promotes are that children can:

• Care for themselves
• Keep themselves healthy
• Know the rules about safety
• Get help if they need to

Video one also supports the child's sense of belonging and contribution, also the development of communication and exploration skills.

Learning outcomes
Skills and knowledge developed in video one

Children are encouraged to:

• Become familiar with correct names of body parts
• Recognise the importance of body hygiene
• Feel good about themselves
• Be entitled to help when they think they need it

Children will:

• Increase their knowledge about how to keep themselves safe from harm.
• Develop a sense of personal worth.
• Have a range of strategies for getting help for themselves.

Learning outcomes identified in Te Whaariki:
Well-being - Goal 1

Children develop:

• Increasing understanding of their bodies and how they function
• Knowledge about how to keep themselves healthy
• Self-help and self-care skills for eating, drinking.
• Food preparation, toileting, resting, sleeping, washing, and dressing.

Well-being - Goal 2

Children develop:

• A sense of personal worth, and knowledge that personal worth does not depend on today's behaviour or ability
• An ability to identify their own emotional responses and those of others
• Confidence and ability to express emotional needs
• Trust that their emotional needs will be responded to.

Well-being - Goal 3

Children develop:

• Increasing knowledge about how to keep themselves safe from harm
• Ability and confidence to express their fears openly
• Trust that their fears will be taken seriously
• A sense of responsibility for their own well-being and that of others
• An increasing sense of responsibility for protecting others from injury and from physical and emotional abuse.

Links to Desirable Objectives and Practises

DOP 5a reads:

Educators should plan, implement and evaluate curriculum for children in which:
Their health is promoted and emotional well-being nurtured, and they are kept safe from harm.