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RSPCA Education

RSPCA Education offers students a wide range of learning experiences through a variety of curriculum targeted programs. Learning opportunities exist on-site at the RSPCA Education Centre in Burwood East, or alternatively, Education Officers can visit your school accompanied by a temperament-tested animal.

The Education Centre includes a rustic Barn where a selection of pets and farm animals can be handled or observed close up.  All of the animals in the RSPCA Barn are conditioned for close contact and are kept and displayed in a manner that places their welfare as the highest priority.

A theatrette offers the benefits of closed-circuit television, DVD, video and on-line technology, viewed on a screen that is four metres long and three metres high. An information gallery provides a venue in which students can develop their understanding of animal welfare issues and the work of an animal welfare organisation.

Why book a session with RSPCA Education?

• RSPCA Education service is currently FREE of charge to schools (however donations of money, blankets, towels and newspapers are always greatly appreciated)

• A range of curriculum-linked programs offered to schools

• Incursion and excursion options

• RSPCA Education Officers offer programs throughout Victoria (subject to staff availability)

• Students develop a greater awareness of the RSPCA (a non-government, community-based charity) and how the community can help

• RSPCA learning opportunities connect strongly with the community and practise beyond the classroom

• Children are generally very animal-focused, particularly when it comes to the animals that they have had experience with, and animal issues can evoke passion, commitment and positive action

• Use of live animals and engaging RSPCA animal stories and case studies
   

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