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Dillon and Chad don't look much like teachers,
but when they enter a classroom they could be providing children
with the most important lesson they will ever learn.
This week the specially-trained dogs were taken
to Preston Primary School in Tasburgh.
The classroom of six and seven-year-olds were told
by the dogs' handler how to say no to strangers.
The pupils heard how they should always shout no
if they are approached by someone they don't know.
The dogs help show the children how loud they have
to shout. When the pupils really use their voices then the dogs
bark to tell them well done.
The head teacher of Preston Primary, Dyan McKelvey,
said the dogs provide a fun way of teaching children.
"Children rely a lot on visual input and the
dogs were very visual, very noisy too and it's something that they
will take away and remember," she said.
The dogs have been taken to see thousands of primary
school children across the county as part of Norfolk's Partners
Against Crime Taskforce, more commonly known as PACT.
Inspector Bob Eagleton is the chief executive of
the project and thinks the dogs give the 'stranger danger' sessions
an extra appeal.
"We thought that rather than just having a
police officer or a member of staff standing up in front of children
and talking to them, using the dogs will help reinforce the message,"
he said.
"It will make the lesson more interactive
for the children themselves, so they actually do remember what has
gone on," he added.
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