Monday, 17 March 2014
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Thursday, 6 March 2014
Keeping ourselves Safe - A visit from Adele our Community Police Officer
Today we had a special visit from a New
Zealand Police Officer. Constable Adele White came to teach us how we can keep
ourselves safe, especially when we are travelling in cars, at the shops and in
car parks. We really enjoyed listening to her story about the little boy going
to the supermarket with his Mum who wasn’t wearing a seat belt. We talked about
what could happen to us if we don’t wear our seat belts or sit in our car
seats. She gave us all some great tips on how we can keep safe in a car such as
always sitting in the back seat if there is space as it is the safest place for
small children and to always make sure we are sitting in a car seat or booster
seat with our seat belts on until we are SEVEN years old. She also gave us the
job of being special police helpers and whenever we get in cars we need to tell
the driver “I am the police officers special helper and I need to wear my seat
belt!” We especially loved it when Randy got up
and did some acting with Constable Adele; they taught us all about how to help
ourselves if we get lost from our Mums or Dads. Randy did an amazing job of
telling her his Mum and Dad’s names and the road he lives on so Constable Adele
could look in the phone book to find his phone number and call his Mum and Dad
to come and get him. She told us it’s a great idea if we can learn our phone
number or the number on our letter box so if we ever did get lost someone can
help us out! Another great idea she taught us is when we are lost or in trouble
who to go to for help, she talked about what a police officer’s uniform looks
like, they wear a light blue shirt that has a badge on the arm that says
‘Police’ with dark blue pants, black boots and a special hat with the police
badge on the front. If we can’t find a police officer she told us we could ask
a Mum or Dad that has children with them if they could please help us. We really enjoyed all the special skills
Constable Adele taught us to keep ourselves safe but our favourite part was
getting to go look at her cool police car! She showed us her special lights,
her radio and the special markings on the side that say ‘Police’ so we know how
to find it!
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