Schools to battle it out at Home Safety Quiz final
Four primary schools are preparing to battle it out for the honour of being the winner of Lancaster City Council’s annual Home Safety Quiz.
Each year approximately one million children are injured as a result of accidents in and around their homes, a figure which all of us would like to see dramatically reduced.
In an attempt to do this all 54 local primary schools in the district are invited each year to take part in the Home Safety Quiz, an initiative which aims to increase awareness amongst 9-11 year olds of the dangers in and around the home.
Forty two schools took part in this year’s quiz heats and classes were visited by environmental health staff and fire officers.
Year six children answered questions on subjects such as fire, slips and falls, burns and scalds, water safety, electricity and poisoning.
This years heat winners are:
- Scotforth St Paul’s C of E Primary School
- Wray with Botton Endowed Primary School
- Caton St Paul’s C of E School
- Bowerham Community Primary School
Teams from these schools will be battling it out to see who knows the most about home safety at the quiz final on Friday, 25 June at Morecambe Town Hall.
The final is being kindly sponsored by Lancaster Round Table and the winners will be awarded the Home Safety Quiz Shield as well as gift vouchers and cash prizes for the schools.
Coun David Kerr, cabinet member with responsibility for health and wellbeing said: “This event has become extremely successful and is welcomed by teachers and parents as a way of getting important safety messages to more than a thousand children across the district.
“Children are very good at passing on such messages and therefore reaching family and friends with potentially life saving information.
“By encouraging children to look at safety as an important issue we hope to reduce the number of accidents which occur to both them and those around them.”
For more information on how your school can get involved in next year’s quiz contact Joanne Hayes, Lancaster City Council Environmental Health, (01524) 582703, email jhayes@lancaster.gov.uk
Date Published: 22/06/10