FW: How to keep Ourselves Safe - two books by Hampshire EMTAS

[Robene Dutta]

Hello Everyone,

Last week was the launch of two important books by Claire Barker and Helen Smith from Hampshire EMTAS. Developed with members of Hampshire’s GTRSB communities, the authors say that “while the books are aimed at children and families from these communities, they are suitable for children from all walks of life.” Carol and Helen managed the script and artwork, while we took on the tasks of book design, sound enabling with PENpal, printing and publishing.

Click here to see a sample preview of both books so you can see topics and approach to talking about relationships and sex. The books are aimed at children aged 6 to 11.

 

The copy shown below will be mail-shotted to about 24000 schools and nurseries after next week’s half term break. In the meantime please let others know about this book.

 

All best,

Robene

 

How to Keep Ourselves Safe – A NEW picture book by Hampshire EMTAS.                                                   Join Jesse as he finds out how to keep himself safe as he grows up., within his community and online. Anne-Kate will find out which parts of her body should be kept private and what the medical words for those parts are. Developed with members of the Hampshire Gypsy, Traveller, Roma, Showmen and Boater communities (GTRSB), sensitively expressed, this book will be suitable for children from all walks of life. Authors Claire Barker and Helen ~Smith say, “It supports the requirement for Relationship and Sex Education curriculum, the content will help teachers and teaching assistants to introduce topics with real people.” Mantra Lingua has published this book with Hampshire EMTAS services and although the books are aimed at the 6 to 11 year old child, Nursery teachers can also refer and develop ideas for younger children. Launched this month, we offer a free copy with every four copies ordered. Order at least 2 of each book and we will send you one free. Both books are pen enabled for reading out aloud with the Mantra Lingua PENpal. Children can record their voices and experiences one every page in privacy. These titles are read in English only by Dolly-May Stockwell, in a Roma accent.     Best wishes, Robene Dutta Publisher. P.S. Our free Online course “How to get the Best from Your PENpal and ClassroomPEN” will help children’s engagement as they learn how to record their voices onto any page in the book or recordable stickers.   Mantra Lingua Ltd Great Picture Books in the following 70+ languages for a wider world perspective: English with Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bosnian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cantonese, Cherokee, Cholitho Bhasha, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian-Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kalderash, Korean, Kurdish Kurmanji, Kurdish Sorani, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Malayalam, Mandarin, South American Spanish, Nepali, Norwegian, Orcadian, Oromo, Panjabi, Pashto, Patois, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Sgaw Karen, Shilluk, Shona, Slovakian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Sylheti, Tagalog, Tamil, Telegu, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkish, Twi, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish, Yoruba or English only.     BESA, NALDIC, NATE, BATA,

 

 

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[Kate Cly]

Mantra Lingua with Hampshire EMTAS would like to clarify some points about their two RSE books, How we keep ourselves safe (Jesse’s story) and How we keep ourself safe (Mary-Kate’s story), published in 2023.   The books follow Jesse and Mary-Kate who are finding out how to keep themselves safe as they grow up within their community and in online spaces.  This is part of the statutory Relationships and Sex Education curriculum at Key Stage 2.  Written in consultation with Irish Traveller, Romany and Showmen parents, the books cover that statutory curriculum in a way that is mindful of the cultural beliefs and sensitivities of our Traveller communities.

 

These books are a resource to be used by an adult in school to support discussion with children in Years 5 and 6.  The primary focus of the books is to educate children to keep themselves safe.  The book should only be used with children from Traveller communities with prior parental consent, and pupils should not be given the book to look at unsupervised.  Neither should the book be used with younger children.  Whilst we encourage parents to talk to their children about such matters and recognise that parents might themselves find the books useful in doing that, the book should only be sent home if requested by a parent.  Whilst the books are aimed at children and families from Traveller communities, they are suitable for children from all walks of life.  

 We appreciate your engagement and hope this addresses your concerns.  Do reach out to us directly if you have any further queries. 

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[ericarfield]

Hi,

Where can we purchase these books?  Thanks

Erica

[Robene Dutta]

Hi Erica

Unfortunately we have had to pulp all the books due to problems from certain sectors.

Hampshire are reworking the content and we will publish by June, once the content is updated.

 

This is  a sensitive area and I am sure that the authors in Hampshire EMAS will sort things out.

 

Best wishes

Robene

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