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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