Casey Safety Village
The Casey Safety Village contains the Casey Road Safety Education Centre (CRSEC) and CFA Learning Centre. It delivers road and fire safety educational programs to kindergarten and primary school children. With facilities to accommodate up to 60 students, the village offers a combination of consecutive or concurrent educational programs covering the areas of Road & Fire safety programs.
The CRSEC is a mini version of Victorian roads. The aim of the centre is to educate all sectors of the community about road safety, in a safe, fun, controlled and positive learning environment. The CFA Learning Centre is a simulated home environment delivering a fire safety educational program by trained CFA personnel. The program is designed to enable students to demonstrate strategies that deal with unsafe or emergency situations
Casey Road Safety Education Centre
The road safety facility includes:
- Fully maintained bicycles (training wheels available)
- Helmets
- Knee and elbow pads
CFA Learning Centre
The CFA Learning Centre facility includes:
The Session Content
The Learning Centre program is integrated with and complements CFA’s Fire Safe Kids Program.
Inside the Learning Centre we have simulated several home environments, enabling students to move through the high risk areas of the kitchen, laundry and lounge room. A significant portion of time is also dedicated to preparing and rehearsing Home Fire Escape Plans, this component is further complimented by ‘take-home’ material.
Inside the Learning Centre the students will:
- recognise and explain how to remedy home fire hazards
- discuss the science behind fire through understanding the fire triangle
- identify and discuss the dangers of flammable liquids
- learn personal survival strategies to extinguish clothing fires and to cool burn/scald injuries
- identify the need to make a home fire escape plan and work through several possible scenarios
Outcomes of the Program:
- Increasing students’ understanding of fire safety around the home;
- Promoting fire safety to students in a novel environment that is conducive to learning;
- Alerting the community to the need for fire safety at school and home;
- Alerting the community to CFA’s role in saving life and property;
- Students are encouraged to take the fire safety messages home and discuss them with family and friends.
Program Design and Curriculum Links
The program is designed to enable students to demonstrate strategies that deal with unsafe or emergency situations. This is strongly aligned to the learning outcomes in the Victorian Essential Learning Standards (VELS) and Curriculum Standards Framework II (CSFII). The lesson covers aspects within three key learning areas of Health and Physical Education, SOSE and Science.
Session Guide
Prep to grade 6 – groups between 25-60 participants
- 10:00am – 11:00am Road Safety Theory and Practical*/Fire Safety Sessions (concurrent)
- 11:00am – 11:20am Morning Tea (all)
- 11:20am – 12:20pm Road Safety Theory and Practical*/Fire Safety Sessions (concurrent)
- 12:20pm – 12:30pm Total group debrief/farewell (Traffic School Building), handover of certificates etc
- 12:30pm – Finish OR
- 12:30pm – 1:30pm – Time to continue with practical activities and have lunch (confirm at time of booking)
Theory component delivery will depend on age groups
Groups of 25-30 participants may be run as consecutive sessions
Free BBQ facilities available for use by all groups attending the centre.
School Holiday Program
The Casey Safety Village is open on selected days during school holidays*. The school holiday program is aimed at increasing bicycle and road safety awareness children up to 12 years of age. Children can bring their own bicycles and safety gear or use one of the many available (subject to availability)
The school holiday program can include;
- ‘Caseyville’ – a community safety game
- Bike activities
- Fire Safety Sessions – in the CFA Learning Centre
- Colouring and Puzzles
- Movies
Children must be accompanied / supervised by a parent or carer for the complete duration of their visit.
*Please check with the on site co-ordinator for dates.
More information and booking a session
Casey Safety Village Coordinator
65 Berwick-Cranbourne Road
Cranbourne East 3977 (directly behind Casey RACE)
Tel: 03 5995 2216
Fax: 03 5995 2214
Email: safetyvillage@casey.vic.gov.au
Website: www.casey.vic.gov.au/safetyvillage
