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Staying safe: what do I need to know about knife crime?

This unit, aligned with the 2025 RSHE guidance, explores knife crime and legislation regarding weapons. Pupils learn about legal consequences, understand how online sources can glamorise and distort the realities of carrying knives, and recognise strategies to stay safe whilst accessing support.

This is an attributed Oak National Academy lesson sequence, not a completed or academically approved DASKEREL course. Supporting transcripts may depend on video, images, practical equipment or teacher explanation. Follow each lesson’s supervision guidance. For religious education and RSHE, follow the school’s syllabus, policy and safeguarding procedures.

Prior knowledge

  • Pupils should understand from Year 8 how to increase personal safety in public spaces and recognise situations that may present risks to themselves or others in their community.
  • Pupils should be familiar with online safety from previous units, recognising that some online content glamorises harmful behaviours.
  • Pupils should know from earlier learning how to access support from trusted adults.

Source curriculum references

  • Pupils should understand that online content can present a distorted picture of the world and normalise or glamorise behaviours which are unhealthy and wrong.
  • How to increase their personal safety in public spaces, including when socialising with friends, family, the wider community or strangers.
  • The risks of illegal behaviours online, including drug and knife supply or the sale or purchasing of illicit drugs online.
  • How to develop key social and emotional skills that will increase pupils’ safety from involvement in conflict and violence.
  • Understanding which trusted adults they can talk to if pupils are worried about violence and/or knife crime.
  • The law as it relates to knives and violence.
  • Children should be taught that carrying weapons is uncommon.

Oak source metadata. DASKEREL has not independently verified school-level coverage.

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