Excursion Information

Proposal for the Principal

Year: 5
Date: Monday 10th October 2016
Venue: DFES Education and Heritage Centre. 25 Murray Street, Perth 6000
Cost: Venue free of cost, Bus $350 in total ($12 per student)
Supervising Teachers: Miss Wilson, Miss Mauricio, and Miss McAuliffe.
Purpose of Excursion/ Educational Benefits
In Term 4, the Year Five students have been focusing on the effects of natural disasters and
how to respond safely. The DFES Education and Heritage Centre is a perfect venue for a hands
on learning experience for students with different learning abilities to be able to strive and
learn to the best of their ability. The centre is also a great opportunity for students to become
aware of the causes of natural disasters and also how to respond to each safely.
Prior to the excursion students would have been introduced to the different types of natural
disasters and the effects they have on a community. Students would have gone into detail
about fire safety within the home and the ways to help prevent it. Through a two-minute talk
they will need to explain a real life natural disaster event that has occurred and they ways
they were dealt with. The lesson prior to the excursion will give students an insight on the
different emergency response organisations which will be further covered in the excursion.
The DFES Education and Heritage Centre offers a program which is broken up into two fortyfive minute sessions. The class will be split up into two groups that switch over to work with
the centres on site teachers Peta and Paige.
One group will spend time in a classroom and will be taught about home fire safety. They are
given the opportunity to roam around four interactive learning areas which focus on fires,
floods, earthquakes and cyclones. They are taught about fire hazards in the home as well as
how to respond if an emergency were to happen in their home.
The second group will have the chance to dress up in firefighters uniforms and explore one of
the centres fire trucks. They will also be given the opportunity to learn about the history of
Perths first fire station.
Curriculum Strands Addressed
HASS- Geography
Factors that shape the environmental
characteristics of places.

The impact of bushfires or floods on

environments and communities, and how
people can respond (ACHGK030)

Travel Arrangements
Students and teachers will travel to and from the DFES centre via Bus West. We will be picked
up from school at 9:30am for an estimated arrival of 10:00 am. We will depart from the centre
at 12:30pm the bus will take us to Kings Park for lunch. The bus will leave Kings Park at
2:00pm to arrive at school by 2:30pm. The total cost of the bus hire for the day is $350 ($12
per student).

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Times

Location

Activity

8:30 9:10am

Loreto Nedlands Primary

School

Students will arrive at school. Short

briefing will be given on the expectation
of students and rolls will be delegated.

9:20 9:30am

Loreto Nedlands Primary

School

Students depart from school

10:00am

DFES Education and Heritage

Centre

Arrive at centre

10:15am

DFES Education and Heritage

Centre

Introduction to the centre by on site

teachers
Split into two groups (A and B)

10:40am

DFES Education and Heritage

Centre

Group A: Home Fire Escape Plan

Group B: Dress Up

11:25am

DFES Education and Heritage

Centre

Recess

11:45am

DFES Education and Heritage

Centre

Group A: Dress Up
Group B: Home Fire Escape Plan

12:30pm

Depart centre

1:00pm

Kings Park

Arrive at Kings Park

1:10pm

Kings Park

Lunch and Reflection (handout)

1:40pm

Kings Park

Activities and games

2:00pm
2:30 3:00pm

Depart Kings Park

Loreto Nedlands Primary
School

Arrive at school
Briefing of students

Safety Requirements
In regards to safety requirements staff will contain health/contact information for all students
as well as any special requirements (first aid kit, EPIpen, insulin). In the case of an emergency
or if contact is required staff will be given a school phone to be contacted on.
Supervising teachers signature:
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Principal/Deputy Principal Approval

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