Safety Scene working with promoters throughout the UK. Providing a stimulating environment and activities for children and young people to learn about personal safety.
Kerbcraft is a practical child pedestrian training scheme, developed in Drumchapel, Glasgow, by Professor James Thomson at the University of Strathclyde. It is designed to teach pedestrian skills to 5 to 7 year olds, by means of practical road-side training rather than teaching in the classroom. It is built around teaching three skills:- choosing safe places and routes; crossing safely at parked cars and crossing safely near junctions. These skills are taught over the course of at least 12 roadside sessions. Children are taught in the road environment near their schools, in pairs or groups of three children, by trained volunteers.
This website provides information for existing Kerbcraft Co-ordinators; for those interested in setting up a new scheme in a local authority, school or other establishment, and for anyone interested in learning more about Kerbcraft.
Official Kerbcraft resources, funded by the Department for Transport, can be found in the Resources Section of this website, and materials developed by Kerbcraft schemes around the country can be found in the Example Materials Section. The Information Section provides a wealth of additional information and advice notes to help with the set up, funding and running of Kerbcraft. The Kerbcraft Pilot Section provides information and evaluation reports on the national pilot of Kerbcraft, which ran from 2002 to 2007.
The Kerbcraft website has the following available in the resources part of their website, especially useful for schools and teachers. Manual, support pack, video & DVD, as well as documents detailing Class List, Training Schedules, Child Volunteer Allocation List, Volunteer List, Co-ordinator Visit, Session Register, Incident Record…
A short road safety video reinforcing the Stop, Look and Listen message. Ideal for use both before and after a Safety Scene visit. Use to reinforce some of the road safety messages heard during the visit.
Ideal to get children thinking about road safety messages. Use it after a Safety Scene visit. An excellent way to reinforce some of the road safety messages put into practise during the visit.
Another nicely laid out website which has been divided into three sections.
Road accidents are the single biggest cause of accidental death among 5–14 year olds – a statistic that encouraged 3M to make child road safety the key theme of its community programme.
Providing KS1 & KS2 road safety information for:
Pupils Resources
Green Cross Code – Test
Crossing the road – Where is a safe place to cross?
The countryside – What should I do if I live in the countryside where there is no pavement?
Safe on the Street is a road safety education website for 7 – 11 years olds, their teachers and parents. Find out how to keep safe on the street with fun activities, stories, puzzles, quizzes and competitions.
A well designed and informative road safety website. Safe on the Street is divided into three sections.
Streetsense is a Scottish initiative and a very well thought out website ideal for parents and teachers to help educate children and young people about road safety.
An assembly resource which can be used in conjunction with ‘Streetsense’ to build on the topics covered within the website. The topics covered are very similar to the Road Safety aspect of Safety Scene and is ideal material to use in conjunction with a Safety Scene visit.
The material links to other Road Safety Scotland resources such as the Scottish Cycle Training Scheme and the Junior Road Safety Officer scheme.
Over 4 different levels the interactive multimedia displays cover the most important aspects of road safety and information over a wide age range from primary KS1 to KS3, including:
Crossing between parked cars
How to traffic lights and pelican crossings
Walking
Skateboarding
Motorbike
Bus
Braking distances
And more…
The Scottish statistics for accidental deaths in children between 0-19 are:
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