Risk Watch
is a program that we are currently implementing in our seventh and eighth grade
Physical Education and Health courses.
This program is a comprehensive injury prevention curriculum for
children in preschool through grade eight.
The statistics are staggering. Traffic injuries, drownings, fires and
burns, firearm injuries, falls, poisoning… each year, unintentional injuries
kill more than 7,000 kids and permanently disable more than 50,000.
Risk Watch activities combine teaching
and imagination to help children learn to promote their own personal safety and
well being, as well as that of their friends, families, and communities. Students are actively involved in exercises
such as analyzing risky behaviors through story-telling and role-playing. Field tested successfully in the united
States and Canada, Risk Watch is a
sequential program of instruction consisting of the following risk areas: motor vehicle safety, fire and burn
prevention, choking/suffocation/strangulation prevention, poisoning prevention,
falls prevention, firearms injury prevention, bike and pedestrian safety and
water safety.
MURDOCK
WISHES TO SEND A SPECIAL THANK-YOU TO ALL THE COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS FOR
ASSISTING WITH THIS PROGRAM!