Fifth Grade Students will be learning about natural emergencies common in this area through the Student Tools for Emergency Planning (STEP) program. Your children will learn how to implement strategies to prepare for emergencies at home with you. Helping your children prepare for these untimely events can decrease the anxiety they feel when hearing about disasters and give them a feeling of power in a difficult situation, and could even save their lives.
The Goals of the program are for your children to:
1. Become familiar with the types of natural emergencies that can affect our area.
2. Work to assemble emergency supply items into an emergency kit.
3. Work with their families to form a family communication plan.
The STEP Program, sponsored by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and our state Agency is designed to be age appropriate and engaging to students. Information to our students is done by Mr. Jamie D'Pace (Avon Fire Marshall), retired Avon Police Officer Dennis Bianci, and Mr. Jeff Redman. Thompson Brook has participated in STEP for the last 8 years.
The Goals of the program are for your children to:
1. Become familiar with the types of natural emergencies that can affect our area.
2. Work to assemble emergency supply items into an emergency kit.
3. Work with their families to form a family communication plan.
The STEP Program, sponsored by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and our state Agency is designed to be age appropriate and engaging to students. Information to our students is done by Mr. Jamie D'Pace (Avon Fire Marshall), retired Avon Police Officer Dennis Bianci, and Mr. Jeff Redman. Thompson Brook has participated in STEP for the last 8 years.
Photos of the Blizzard of 1888. 50 inches of snow covered parts of CT.
Photos of the Blizzard of 1978. Photos of heavy snow on the Hartford Civic Center in 1978.
Photos of Vermont Highways destroyed by the heavy rain associated with Hurricane Sandy.
Photos of the Tornado in Springfield Mass.
Photos of the damage in New York and New Jersey from Hurricane Sandy.