The Country Fire Authority (CFA) has transformed its Fire Safe Kids program into two new, curriculum-aligned and developmentally appropriate programs.
CFA’s previous children’s education program, Fire Safe Kids (FSK), was developed in 2011 and consisted of a series of classroom lessons and a truck and fire hose activity.
But 15 years on, the program has been redeveloped following feedback from members, educators and parents.
The result is two new programs, Truck Time and Fire Wise Kids.
Based on the previous program’s fire truck activity, Truck Time is now a standalone program consisting of hands-on activities for children such as climbing into the cabin or on the back of the truck, seeing how fire hoses work, looking at equipment in the lockers and learning about simple fire safety messaging.
Fire Wise Kids is CFA’s new in-classroom program delivered by CFA members.
The five new 30 to 60-minute lessons cover the most important aspects of fire safety for children including smoke alarms, exiting safely, home hazards, calling Triple Zero, basic fire science, outdoor fire safety, and more.
Tailored for age groups from kindergarten to Year 4, the lessons have been developed with child development, learning styles, individual needs, curriculum and fun in mind and consist of a mixture of explaining with visual resources, questions and answers, and physical activities.
Truck Time and Fire Wise Kids are designed to be delivered on separate days.
More information: https://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/schools
