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Electrical Safety Educational Fun Pack For Schools
1st January 2008
To further celebrate last year's launch of our children's educational website, www.switchedonkids.org.uk, and to provide practical support to teachers to help them educate children about electrical safety, we have presented every primary level school in the UK with an 'electrical safety educational fun pack'.
The purpose of the pack is to promote electrical safety by encouraging discussion with the children about electricity and how they can keep themselves safe from its potential dangers.
The pack includes a plan of four rooms in a house, a page of reusable electrical appliance stickers, and a set of badges.
Children can use the stickers to put the appliances into the rooms where they would normally be used, and the teacher can then encourage a discussion on how they can be used safely.
Further material included in the pack gives electrical safety tips and more information about the hazards of electricity. Once the children have successfully completed the task, they can be rewarded with a badge.
The pack also contains details of our 2008 poster competition. Children aged 11 and under can enter by designing their own electrical safety poster. A regional winner will be chosen from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, who will then be automatically entered into a Grand Final to find the overall UK-wide winner.
If you are involved in the education sector or are a parent and would like to receive copies of the fun pack, or would like to find out more about the 2008 poster competition, please email us at schools@esc.org.uk or visit our children's website at www.switchedonkids.org.uk
