Kidsafe WA’s Playground Advisory Service provides a range of services to help create and maintain safe, creative play-spaces that support children’s development, learning and wellbeing.
Health & Safety
Playground Advisory Service
Safety in Schools
The Kidsafe WA Safety in Schools program aims to reduce childhood injuries by encouraging schools to address injury prevention. Kidsafe WA offer interactive school incursions for year 1, 2 and 3 students covering key injury prevention topics of safety at home, at play and on the road.
SunSmart Schools
The SunSmart Schools program aims to minimise student and staff exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun at school and during school-associated activities.
Generation SunSmart On-line Learning Modules
Learn about: skin cancer, being SunSmart, the UV Alert, UV levels and how to incorporate sun protection strategies into your day to day activities. Plus receive a Certificate of Acknowledgment upon completion.
Kidskin Sun Safety Education Resources
The Kidskin sun safety education resources offer primary school teachers ready-made curriculum activities and programs to enhance sun protection learning experiences. Kidskin activities are student-centered, interactive, cross-curricular and most importantly FUN!
CHAT: Changing Health Acting Together
CHAT is a Health Promoting Schools (HPS) initiative that enables schools to develop a whole-school approach to resilience, drug and road safety education. SDERA works with schools to help embed a comprehensive approach and develop and implement longer-term health and wellbeing initiatives.
Get on Board Education Program
Transperth’s Get on Board education program is now available online. The website provides curriculum-based resources and lesson plans for teachers, parents and students to engage in public transport education in a fun and interactive way. This program helps upper primary students to transition to independent and safe travel on public transport in readiness for high school. Schools can book an Incursion in which a Transperth Education Officer goes out to the classroom and brings the information on the website to life with an interactive presentation to the group. Schools can also book a Get on Board Station Tour to further their learning outside the classroom and arrange group tickets for train travel via the website.
Growing Developing Healthy Relationships
GDHR is a free resource to support schools to deliver comprehensive relationships and sexuality education in line with the WA Health and Physical Education Curriculum and International Technical Guidance for Sexual Health Education. It includes lesson plans, educator notes, teaching strategies, best practice guidelines and professional learning opportunities. Parents should also check out a resource to help them Talk soon. Talk Often. Home – Talk Soon Talk Often (gdhr.wa.gov.au)
Skin First Aid, Screening and Education
Melanoma skin cancer is the most common cancer in Aussies aged 15-29 years. Early detection and education for people of all ages is vital in the fight against skin cancer. Specialists in early detection and education programs, Spotscreen offers a range of community-based skin cancer screening and training programs that help save lives. Perfect for teachers, school staff, parents and students, Spotscreen’s engaging onsite programs can help protect the health & safety of your school and community.
DonateLife WA
DonateLife WA aims to raise awareness and encourage discussion about organ and tissue donation in the wider community. Currently only 38% of Western Australian’s have registered their donation decision on the Australian Organ Donor Register and nationally only 8% of all 16–25-year-olds have registered their decision. It is now possible to register online in less than a minute at – https://donatelife.gov.au/register-donor-today – you just need your Medicare details.
How we help you:
- We share expert knowledge, experience, and passion in a fun and interactive way with your students.
- We help you teach students about the organ and tissue donation process and why it is important to talk about it with family and friends.
We make it interesting!
- We tell real-life stories.
- We use videos, prizes, and engaging content.
- School education resources and information about organ and tissue donation are also available online – https://www.donatelife.gov.au/education-resources. These are aligned to the learning descriptions in the Australian Curriculum and are now available for both teachers and students.
Getting your school involved
Getting involved with a DonateLife event is an easy way to help bring the organ and tissue donation lessons to life for your students.
There are three main events you could choose to take part in each year, giving the students something fun to do, while also raising awareness in your school community about DonateLife.
The Gift of Life Walk encourages schools to take students on a 5k walk, whether that be multiple times around the school oval, or on a route near the school. It’s a double bonus to take part in the walk as the students get to be active, while learning a bit more about a sensitive topic. If you register your school when registrations open, you’ll be sent some free shirts and caps for the students to wear!
DonateLife Week is the national awareness raising week for organ and tissue donation. During the week you could host a morning tea and sell cute heart-shaped biscuits (monies raised could be donated to your local children’s hospital or favourite charity); ask your local DonateLife agency to send in a guest speaker to speak at assembly; run a ‘design a DonateLife poster’ competition or hold a poetry or writing competition.
Jersey Day was started by Nathan Gremmo’s family to honour the 13-year-old who donated his organs following an accident. It’s easy to take part in the day, just tell your students to wear their favourite sports jersey, then take some photos and post them to your school social pages tagging #donatelife.
DonateLife WA also offers school assembly and in classroom guest speaker (Year 11 & 12 students), and attendance at School Health Expositions.
For further information, please ask to speak with the Communications Officer.
Royal Life Saving Society Western Australia
Teaching the new WA Health and Physical Education curriculum this year?
The Be a Mermate education package provides curriculum-linked water safety lessons for Years 9-12. Students explore risky situations, peer influence and decision-making around water through engaging classroom activities.
The FREE, ready to use resource pack includes:
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Teacher guides: Inclusive, ready-to-use lesson plans with hands-on activities and curriculum links.
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Supporting teacher and student resources: Engaging, interactive slide decks and worksheets.
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Exciting online game: Designed for dynamic student learning
The Be a Mermate campaign adopts a light-hearted, humorous and relatable tone to deliver crucial water safety education, fostering positive peer power and encouraging young people to become proactive advocates for water safety. Being a Mermate means:
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Looking out for your crew: Ensuring everyone’s safety around water.
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Transforming peer pressure: Turning social challenges into a powerful tool for prevention and positive influence.
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Building water safety knowledge: Adopting positive attitudes and behaviours to stay safe.
Life Education Programs
Life Education WA provide a range of age appropriate Curriculum outcome based programs from Kindergarten to Year 6. Click for more information for K and PP and for primary modules here. The sections marked in yellow refer to Mental Health outcomes. Life Education WA partner with both Government and Non Government Schools and provide education to around 30,000 primary students each year.
The Kids Institute Discovery Centre
The Kids Research Institute Australia is one of the largest and most successful medical research institutes in Australia. We’ve created a bold blueprint that brings together community, researchers, practitioners, policy makers and funders, who share our vision to improve the health and wellbeing of children through excellence in research.
What can you expect to explore at the Discovery Centre?
The Discovery Centre is full of fun and educational games for kids to learn about science, health and medical research.
- Explore the human body using an ultrasound, X-ray or MRI and discover what researchers are doing to find out more about body organs.
- Get up close with our special microscopes, take a look inside the mouth, ear and skin and find out why our researchers are interested in snot, poo and dust mites.
- Take a tour of the places we do research – in the lab, clinic and community.
- See if you can defeat the cancer cells using immunotherapy or catch the allergens in the airway.
The Discovery Centre provides a unique experience for children aged 7 and up, and you never know – the parents might learn something too!
Child Safety Professional Learning and Resources
WA Child Safety Services offers workshops by qualified and experienced trainers including:
• Child Protection & Mandatory Reporting
• Protective Behaviours
• Cyber Safety & Digital Wellness
• Healthy Relationships
WACSS stocks a comprehensive range of abuse prevention resources including Primary School curriculum, books, posters and games.
Abuse Prevention Programs for Students
WA Child Safety Services offers sessions for primary and secondary students including protective behaviours, cyber safety, healthy relationships, and consent.
Better Health Program – A free healthy lifestyle program for children 6-12 years.
Better Health Program – Free & Online Healthy Lifestyle Program for Children 6 – 12
The Better Health Program is a free healthy lifestyle program for children 6 – 12 and their
families. Funded by the Government of Western Australia Department of Health, the program is free for eligible families in WA.
Families will be paired with a personal health coach who will support them to build healthy habits as a family over 10 coaching calls. Areas of support include:
- Quality nutrition,
- Active movement,
- Balancing screen-time,
- Sleep routines, and more!
Families will also get access to a library of fun online activities and bite-sized learning resources to help put advice into practice and will receive a gift voucher upon completion of the program.
Check out our group-based programs here; betterhealthprogram.org/program-location-list/.
If you would like to sign your family up, head to betterhealthprogram.org/ or reach out to our team on 1300 822 953.
If you are an organisation and would like to work with us to promote this out to your community, you can contact Emily – our community engagement officer – at Emily.a@betterhealthcompany.org or (08) 6727 9359.
RAC School Education
RAC offers free education programs, resources and events to primary and secondary school students across Western Australia.
Primary school incursions include: road safety education, healthier air education and RAC Imagine Program Futures Challenge.
RAC offers a variety of secondary school presentations including road safety, purchasing a vehicle, drink, drugs and driving, and car maintenance and safety. Find out more and book a presentation. Secondary school presentations include: On The Road school incursions, RAC bstreetsmart, and RAC Project Road Smart.
