Friday 9 November 2007

ROAD SAFETY AWARENESS

As you will have read in our recent Travel Plan update one of our key objectives is to ‘Make children aware of and give them the skills required for Road Safety’. With the help of the SCC Roadsafe team we have started practical Road Safety training. Class LC have been on our Discovery Trail. This aims to familiarise the children with the area around school making special reference to the road environment. The Road Safety Officer draws the children’s attention to safety features and safe approaches to the use of roads and pavements. They looked at: What are dangerous places and why these are dangerous; Who are the people who help to keep them safe; The skills needed to keep themselves safe; The rules that help to keep them safe; Using their senses to help keep safe; The meaning of the words STOP, LOOK, LISTEN; What is traffic; What are vehicles; The vocabulary of the road - kerb, pavement, road etc.

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