Playing Caseyville
Overview of Rules
This game is based on the features of your local community - houses,
shops, a school, local park and road network. Around each side of the
game matting are 4 colours. Each of these colours represents a team and
a safety theme: red - fire safety; blue - water safety; yellow - road
safety; and green - play safe.
Team Groups
Divide the group into 4 teams along each side. A ‘team player’
is nominated and will wear a coloured bib for visibility on the game
mat - this person marks the team’s progress around the mat.
Winning the Game
Progress toward the finish line is achieved by rolling both dice, answering
a question correctly and moving forward. One roll per team. The team
who move the most players over the game mat in a given time frame are
the winners. Recommended play time is 45 minutes.
Questions
General safety questions are purple with a large question mark. Questions
are specific to each of the 4 safety themes.
There are sets of questions specific for primary school children in lower, middle and upper year levels.
Questions are to be read out by a different colour team to the participating
team player. The team to your left (clockwise) will read out the question.
Bonus & Danger
Bonus cards are red with a yellow star and describe safe situations
and help you to move forward on the game mat. Danger cards are yellow
with a skull and describe dangerous situations and you must move back.
The game host could be nominated to read these cards.
Physical Challenges
There are 4 physical challenges that can help you move forward on
the mat - one for each safety theme. Each
has
a bag of items that your team must dress in and use to demonstrate
safe behaviour before the team player is entitled to move forward.
Lifelines
If a team player is unable to answer a question they can use one of three lifelines - Team Talk, Help Phone and Handball. Each lifeline can only be used once by a team.
Team Talk is shaped like a hand and allows
the player to huddle with their team and answer the question together.
Help Phone is shaped like a phone and
the player nominates one team member to help them answer the question.
Handball is used when the team finds it difficult to answer a question.
The question is then handballed to a chosen team where if answered
correctly both teams have the opportunity to move, if incorrect both
teams cannot move.
Developing Caseyville
Caseyville, the Community Safety Game, is an educational resource that
recognises the value of using the arts as a successful learning tool
for addressing community safety in Casey. The game aims to foster
community responsibility towards crime and injury prevention.
The Caseyville concept was developed in December 2000 in response to an
identified need for an interactive, fun educational tool that would
promote community safety in Casey.
Caseyville was developed to a pilot stage before inviting stakeholders
to comment on the practicality and potential of the game. It was necessary
to translate ideas into a format that could be visualised by people
before inviting their input.
Education representatives of the Country Fire Authority, Victoria
Police and Royal Life Saving Society Australia were then consulted
directly and along with community and road safety groups, they contributed
their expertise. Local schools also provided invaluable feedback during
the development stages and great assistance during the launch of Caseyville.
Caseyville had many transformations before reaching the final product.
Numerous new ideas and modifications took place to the game layout,
icons, images and questions. Alterations proved to be vital for the
success of the game, with many problem areas and occupational health
and safety issues to be overcome.
In October 2002 during Community Safety month, Caseyville,
the Community Safety Game, was launched as a 5 x 5 metre version. In the first six months of operation,
the game has visited 19 locations with 3,167 children (and a few
adults!) estimated to have used this new community safety resource!
Updates to Caseyville
Since its launch, Caseyville, the Community Safety Game has had a number of updates:
- Two sets of a portable 3 x 3 metre indoor use only version is now available, for free use within the City of Casey. Packed in a suitcase on wheels, this version can be collected by groups from the City of Casey Narre Warren Customer Service Centre
- Question cards that closely link to the Curriculum Standards Framework, incorporating questions specific for primary school children in lower, middle and upper year levels
- Physical challenges are now for each safety theme
- Addition of handball lifeline, as well as existing team talk and help phone lifelines
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