2.3 Safety

Life skills

Grade 2

Come, let’s play

Module 3

Safety

Groupwork:

• Talk to your friends about where you think the safest and best place will be to set up a park. Remember, it must be on your own playgrounds.
• Discuss the influence that such a park will have on your school.
• Plan where you would put the different sets of apparatus.
• Will it be necessary to plant any plants and trees?
• Discuss what you would do to make it safe for everybody in the park.
• Discuss the rules there would have to be for the learners.
• What can you do to prevent littering?

• Write down five of your most important rules.

Design

• Design a notice board that you would put up at the entrance to the park.
• Do you think it would be safe to allow the learners to ride their skateboards in the park?
• Would they be able to ride their bicycles there?

• Look at the picture below and discuss it in class. Do you think your park will look like this?
• Discuss what you can do to prevent it from looking like this.
• See if you can see 8 things that are wrong in this park. Mark them with a red chalk.

Colour in the picture as neatly as you can.

Assessment

Memorandum

• Read the following letter out loudly in class. This letter was written by Mr Moneybags, a developer.

Dear Grade Two learners

My name is Mr Moneybags. I am very worried about all the children who play in the streets. I would very much like to develop a large park or playground for them where they can play safely. Please help me to find out what kinds of games children like to play. I would also like you to draw a plan to show me what you think the playground should look like.

I am looking forward to hearing from you.

The learners must identify the following things that are wrong on the worksheet:

• A fence that is broken.
• Children that climb over the fence.
• Too many children on a swing.
• Pieces of broken glass on the ground.
• A tap that is dripping.
• A child who is riding a bicycle.
• A see-saw that is broken.
• A child who is swinging from the branches of a tree.
• An overflowing, half-open rubbish bin.
• Children who are clambering all over a bench.