Department Of Transport - Junior Crew

The Junior Crew Pack is a marine safety educational resource for primary school students in Years 3, 4, and 5. It focuses on 3 key marine safety topics:

• Safe use of boats.
• Personal boating safety.
• Safety of others when boating.

The program was introduced to present important marine safety knowledge and skills from the Recreational Skipper's Ticket (RST) in a way that primary aged students can appreciate.

It was developed by the DoT's Marine Education Boatshed in partnership with:

• Department of Education.
• School Curriculum and Standards Authority.

Students are awarded a Junior Crew Certificate upon completion of a number of worksheets, activities, and tasks.

This resource is available FREE to teachers in Western Australian primary schools.

The Junior Crew program is aligned to the school curriculum and teachers can offer this course as a cross-curricular program.

The program can be used to cover a number of themes, such as:

• Water safety.
• Sea and seashore.
• Lakes and rivers.
• Summer.
• Holidays.
• Weather.
• Recreation.

The program addresses two of the seven general capabilities of school curriculum:

• Critical and creative thinking.
• Personal and social capability.

To Find out more visit the website https://www.transport.wa.gov.au/imarine/junior-crew-program.asp