Road Safety in Schools

Road Safety Education, Training and Publicity in Schools

Road Safety is a vital part of every child's education.

Our role is to support schools in providing this through the whole range of curriculum subjects. Support may be in the form of resources and lesson plans, practical training, special events or class visits. Our Schools Booklet, giving more details on what our service can provide, is available to download (see bottom of page), or can be requested in paper format.

NEW! Download an overview of our services for schools, updated for October 2008. This is based on a presentation first used at the recent Health Promoting Schools network meetings, and includes derails of our new practical training schemes.

The tables below outline the key themes for each year group, and some ideas of the activities used to explore these themes. Please contact us through the details below.

KS1	Reception	Year One	Year Two
Key themes	Seatbelts, hold hands, what is traffic, safe places to play	Seatbelts, hold hands, what is traffic, stop- look -listen, safe places to play	Green cross code, safer places to cross, be bright be seen
Suggested activities	Role play, class based training, road safety songs	Role play, class based training	Playground activities, investigating reflective / florescent

KS2	Year Three	Year Four	Year Five	Year Six
Key themes	Green Cross Code, safer places to cross, hazards, Cycle Skills	Green Cross Code, safer places to cross, crossing where there are no "safer places", hazards	Safer Cycling, seat belts, speed, Arrive Alive (highway code for young road users)	Accident procedure (999), making roads safer, safer routes to secondary schools
Suggested activities	Urban trails, local area mapping (hazards . crossings)	Traffic survey / speed check, crash car testing	Urban trails, survey, practical training	Urban trails, survey, practical training

KS3	Year Seven	Year Eight	Year Nine
Key themes	Safer routes to school, Cycle Training Plus, "travelwise"	Risks, traffic & the environment	Road crashes & consequences, vehicle safety
Suggested activities	Urban trails, design safer routes, write rules for appropriate use of public transport, practical cycle training	Timeline of personal road safety achievements (pre school to present day), traffic survey, role play unsafe situations, riskometer	Speed gun survey, investigate contributory factors of crashes (drugs, fatigue etc), design crash test cars

KS4	Year Ten	Year Eleven
Key themes	Traffic environment, road user behaviour, post accident procedure	Road collisions, causes and remedies, Pre-driver Education
Suggested activities	Highway code quiz, analyse accident stats, investigate contributory factors of crashes (drugs, fatigue, distractions, etc), first aid training	Consider different forms of transport, redesign local roads to incorporate safety features, seat belt survey, highway code quiz

Contact Details

Name:	Road Safety & Travel Awareness
Address:	Directorate of the Urban Environment
	Council House
	Mary Stevens Park
	Stourbridge
	DY8 2AA
Tel:	01384 815432
Fax:	01384 815413
Contact:	General Contact Form