Safety Club Background
The holistic nature of the KIDS Foundation Safety Club ensures that students learn to cooperatively manage the immediacy of their school environment and that the safe practices and risk management learnt at school are transferable to their world at large and hopefully throughout their lives, both in work and life. Safety becomes part of a student’s human developmental process and becomes an instinctive thought process.
The program has evolved to accommodate the development of personal responsibility for children’s own behaviour consistent with new approaches to learning being introduced in Victorian schools. These emphasise the importance of independent, metacognitive approaches to learning in order for individuals to construct their own knowledge, skills and attitudes and therefore learn more effectively and with life long benefits.
The overall aim of the Safety Club program is to develop a prevention culture by teaching children to live and work safely.
The Program is flexible to accommodate individual school community needs, cultural backgrounds students' prior experiences, knowledge and skills.
At the KIDS Foundation we believe that children learn best when the task to be mastered seems relevant to them, when they know the reason or purpose of the task, when they can derive their own conclusions, when they put the information to immediate use, when they engage in peer interaction and when a variety of teaching methods are employed.