Staywise

Is a FREE online library packed full of educational resources and activities from the UK’s leading emergency services and safety-focused organisations making it easy for you to find trusted materials that provide learning opportunities to help keep children safe.

StayWise has a wide range of lesson plans, interactive games, activities and other resources to promote fire safety – and other safety messages – to children and young people. Many resources link to the other areas of the curriculum, allowing fire safety messages to be relayed as part of maths, English and science lessons for example.

Due to North Yorkshire’s large geography and our operational demands, as a Fire and Rescue Service we are unable to offer all schools and educational establishments visits by our specialist Prevention Team Officers and operational Fire Firefighters. To ensure that all children and young people within our area can still receive important safety messages we have prepared educational resource bundles for teachers to access and deliver.

The content of this bundle can be used when delivering safety interventions to children and young people.  This bundle is for teachers to use with their own classes in KS1, presentations and lessons plans are provided for each topic, to access our bundles click the link below:

Primary School Resources | StayWise

Great Fire of London – Education

The National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) has called for schools to stop recreating physical scenes from the Great Fire of London and purposely setting the models alight to highlight how the fire spread and grew from a small bakery in Pudding Lane during the great fire of 1666.

The NFCC recognises the importance of historical teachings and learning from the Great Fire but would promote this learning through the use of other means such online footage.

Children and young people can have a fascination with fire and may be tempted to recreate these scenes themselves after watching trusted adults (teachers or firefighters) doing this in school. This can put young people in a situation that provides a real risk to them and others should any fires get out of control.

Therefore we will reject any requests from schools for appliance attendance to supervise and then extinguish the fire and provide appropriate advice on where to find supportive literature and media footage. These active displays not only constitute a fire risk but can also promote fire setting behaviour.

The provision of appliances at schools for supervision and extinguishing purposes ties up valuable resources which may be needed for real emergencies. The offer of an appliance at a school for this purpose cannot be replicated in all schools across the UK which could result in a large number of schools undertaking these activities without appropriate safety measures in place.

School educational packages

Road Safety – Various Ages

We support the York & North Yorkshire Road Safety Partnership to deliver road safety educational packages in schools and educational establishments, for more information on this please contact use via roadsafetyevents@northyorksfire.gov.uk

Dark Nights – Key Stage 3 / Year 8

A seasonal programme delivered to secondary school pupils during the autumn and winter months, Dark Nights focuses on risks that become more prevalent as the evenings draw in. Topics include road safety, anti-social behaviour, fire-setting, personal safety and the consequences of risk-taking behaviour.

Light Nights – Key Stage 3 / Year 9

Delivered during the spring and summer terms, Light Nights focuses on seasonal safety messages, including water safety, fire safety, outdoor safety and personal responsibility. The programme encourages young people to make informed decisions and recognise potential risks during the warmer months.

How to book one of the education packages

If your school would like to receive one of our education packages mentioned above please contact youthandschools@northyorksfire.gov.uk

We’re sorry that we’re not able to visit any year groups other than those stated above to deliver these packages (this includes nurseries and childminders), as we are trying to target our work in specific risk areas and only have a limited number of teams available to do this work.

Please look at resources from Staywise for younger children Primary School Resources | StayWise