We are grateful to Sharna Whitehand who, in her role as the Corangamite Shire Fire Recovery Coordinator, provided Timboon P-12 School with a class set of ‘The Fire Game’. The Fire Game was developed by the Surf Coast Shire and the Corangamite Shire to help communities be informed and prepared for the risk of fire with the tag- BE AWARE. BE PREPARED. GET CONNECTED. Reinforcing the safety messages from our local CFA volunteers, this was a great prompt for even more discussions with students about preparing for fires and household fire plans.
The Year 5/6 students have been studying bushfires as part of their TAP Natural Disasters Unit and reviewing newspaper articles from the Ash Wednesday and St Patrick's Day fires. In their writing students have been looking at word choice and how our word choice helps to engage our audience. Here is an example of considered word choice in a descriptive piece about the St Patricks Day bushfires written by one of our students. "A bike. Burnt past recognition. This is only one of the many charred things that have been lost. Fires tore through the land, bringing only devastation and horror. The power of this earth is unbearably strong and unexpected. Lives, held to custody, begging on their hands and knees for another chance at happiness. Absolute destruction." We are grateful to Sharna Whitehand who, in her role as the Corangamite Shire Fire Recovery Coordinator, provided Timboon P-12 School with a class set of ‘The Fire Game’. The Fire Game was developed by the Surf Coast Shire and the Corangamite Shire to help communities be informed and prepared for the risk of fire with the tag- BE AWARE. BE PREPARED. GET CONNECTED. Reinforcing the safety messages from our local CFA volunteers, this was a great prompt for even more discussions with students about preparing for fires and household fire plans. Comments are closed.
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