On Thursday 25th of August we had a school trip to Arthurlie house, in Barrhead for an educational event called Safety In The Park.
Safety in the Park is an event to teach young children about drugs, road safety, law and your health and wellbeing. It included activities which warned you about electricity, fire safety and cyber safety.
First we were split into groups then we went to our activities.
Here are our top 3 favourite activities:
1. The first of our favourite activity was when a man taught us about safety on social media. He showed us a pretend Facebook account and we had to point out things that were unsafe. For example, the girl let strangers follow her, she told people where she lived and told them that she was home alone.
2. Our second favourite activity was when a man told us not to drink alcohol and if someone over age bought a drink for someone under age they would have to pay £5,000!( WOW!). When we were asked questions and got the answer right. we got to try on the drunk goggles. They looked like ski goggles but when you put them on it felt like you were in a simulator.
3. The last fun activity was when a woman told us to go to our next activity around the corner and a woman came up to us and said, “I’m your next activity, come with me.” So we did. She asked us our names and if we did anything nice during the summer holidays. Then out of nowhere a police man came up to us and as soon as we saw him we would be in trouble, we knew we were tricked that was an experiment to see if we would walk off with her.(a stranger)
By Pippa and Daniel.
