Safety Scene working with promoters throughout the UK. Providing a stimulating environment and activities for children and young people to learn about personal safety.
Sparkle Box is an online education resource for teachers at Foundation, Key Stage 1 & 2 levels. A great variety of visual aids to assist and reinforce safety messages in a classroom situation.
Resources available to download and use in a classroom situation include:
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.
Another short video emphasising how young children would be more visible to drivers if young children wore brighter coloured clothing. Ideal for use 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.
WoW is a simple scheme that enables schools and local authorities to promote walking to school throughout the entire school year. Children get badges when they walk at least once a week for a month.
Walk to School Dates for 2009
24 June 2009 – WoW badge design competition – winners will be announced.
18 – 22 May 2009 – It’s Walk to School Week 2009!
20 March 2009 – Deadline for schools to enter the WoW badge design competition.
23 February 2009 – Schools competition to design WoW badges for 2009/10 will be launched.
Walk to School also has sections for children, parents and schools.
Downloads include publications:
Backseat Children Report
Safer School Journeys
Walk to School Campaign Guide
Setting up a WoW Walking Zone – Teachers pack Posters
Logos
Walk to School is more about healthy children but there is also a Road/Street safety message involved. And links for further resources. Visit the Walk to School website.
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