Kangaroo Beach
Welcome to Kangaroo Beach, a spectacular sunny paradise and summer home to four super-keen young lifeguard cadets.
Joey Pounce is a wannabe-hero lifeguard, platypus Gemma is a mini-marine biologist, wombat Neville is an expert sandcastle digger, and koala Frizzy is an all-singing, all-dancing, all-fabulous performer extraordinaire.
Every dazzling day is an action-packed adventure for the four furry friends, whether training to be lifeguards, mastering new water sports, discovering the marvels of the ocean, or scuba diving for underwater treasure. With waves to surf, a coral reef to enjoy, fascinating sea creatures to meet and a tropical island to explore, they’re never far from fun – or danger!
But under the guidance of grown up lifeguards Bondi, Sandy and Big Trev, they’re gaining imperative water safety skills that will help keep themselves and other beachgoers safe all summer. Through fun-filled games, sporting contests and on-the-job training, there’s so much to learn about surf awareness, rescue equipment and protecting the beach, with a special medallion to earn for every new skill they master.
When an emergency breaks out, the cadets step up to help their heroes, putting their new skills and unique talents into practice, quickly becoming an essential part of every mission when the siren sounds on Kangaroo Beach.
ACTF Education
How is colour used to build the story? How does light create mood? How do animators use colour and light together to create rich screen content we want to watch?
The use of lighting and colour in television has the power to influence the audience’s mood. In this virtual workshop, early years students are introduced to the use of light and colour in Australian Children’s Television Foundation content to learn about how these elements impact the mood of the story.
In our free virtual workshop, students discover the importance of light and colour from animated episodes that brighten our world! Thinking of these two elements as tools students in Foundation – Year 2 consider the decisions that were made to create stories that build happy, scary, funny, or sad moments.
How is colour used to build the story? How does light create mood? How do animators use colour and light together to create rich screen content we want to watch?
The Kangaroo Beach Series 1 Resource is a water safety education resource for F-2 students and teachers. The resource contains eight lesson plans to use alongside school swimming lessons, as part of class inquiries into health and safety, or to address Health and Physical Education curriculum content in an engaging way. The water safety advice in this resource has been reviewed and endorsed by Surf Life Saving Australia.
Lesson plans correspond to key learning areas in the National Swimming and Water Safety Framework, addressing Hazards and Personal Safety, Entries and Exits, Flotation, Swimming, Underwater, Lifesaving, Rescue, and Survival Sequence. Each lesson identifies a relevant Kangaroo Beach episode and water safety message, lists comprehension questions for the class or individual students, and includes a student activity sheet related to the theme. The resource will improve or consolidate students’ knowledge of safe behaviours around water, empowering them to contribute to their own safety.
The Kangaroo Beach Series 2 learning resource is a classroom-based water safety education tool for Foundation – Year 2 students and teachers. The resource contains eight lesson plans to use alongside school swimming lessons, as part of class inquiries into health and safety, or to address Health and Physical Education curriculum content in an engaging way. Lesson plans correspond to key learning areas in the National Swimming and Water Safety Framework, and each lesson:
- Identifies a relevant Kangaroo Beach episode and water safety message.
- Links to the relevant Framework skills.
- Lists conceptual vocabulary for teachers to clarify with children as needed, depending on the English language skills of their student cohort.
- Provides comprehension questions with corresponding time stamps.
- Includes a choice of three different follow-up activities, related to the themes and target skills.