Get Firewise for year 1 and 2 is a learning programme that develops the knowledge, and behaviours five and six year olds need to keep themselves safe from fire. It focuses on:

• not playing with matches and lighters
• being safe near fires
• understanding that fire can be dangerous
• knowing what to do if there is a fire in a room
• practising evacuating from a room in a fire emergency.

The programme has an additional section where students learn and practise phoning 111 in an emergency.

The programme is cross-curricula. It reflects the intent of the New Zealand Curriculum (2007) and has a strong literacy component. It can be taught as a short topic using literacy and topic time over two to three weeks, or it can be used as a whole term topic in sections with an inquiry learning approach.

Resources

• Get Firewise Teachers’ Guide
• a large picture picture book Tamati and Sam Get Firewise/Our Firewise Family
• three posters
• eight large display photographs
• a Tamati Magnetic Picture Set
• Get Firewise Puppet Master Set
• a smoke alarm (demonstration only)
• a Get Firewise Family Book/DVD
• a Get Firewise School DVD and a CD-ROM with interactive digital story for use in the classroom
• a sample Get Firewise Certificate
• a sample Safe Meeting Place Sticker