Parents at Unanderra Public School say the school has been heavily reinforcing safety and "stranger danger" messages in the wake of a student being approached by a man in a white van last week.
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A nine-year-old girl was in the front yard of the family home about 4.30pm on June 10 when a van pulled up and the driver offered her lollies and said he wanted to drive her home.
Unanderra Public sent a note to parents advising them of the incident, and the secretary of the school's P&C Association said teachers had been drilling safety messages into children.
"My son is in kindergarten, and he is telling me about the messages from the school that are getting drummed into his head," Karen Soulis said.
"They are talking about stranger danger; that if someone talks to you, you run away."
Ms Soulis, who has a daughter in year 5 at the school, said parents were "comforted" to know the school was responding to the attempted child snatch.
"The school is doing plenty, doing all they can. But with the incidents happening after school, there's only so much they can do," she said, referencing a string of similar incidents in the northern suburbs of the Illawarra where children were approached by men in cars and asked to get in.
"This can happen anywhere. You don't know where they can strike," Ms Soulis said.
"These kids have managed to get away, but I find it quite terrifying."
Lake Illawarra police have referred the latest incident to detectives, who are investigating.
