Safety Scene working with promoters throughout the UK. Providing a stimulating environment and activities for children and young people to learn about personal safety.
Trackoff is an educational initiative managed by Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) on behalf of the railway industry. Our main aim is to raise awareness among young people of the dangers and consequences of antisocial behaviour and playing on the railway.
The Trackoff website provides free educational resources to organisations that can spread the message: schools, colleges, youth centres and community groups.
The website has:
Activity resources
Assembly ideas
Booklets and posters
Photos and signage
Teachers packs which include videos and lesson plans
Natural England’s purpose is to protect and improve England’s natural environment and encourage people to enjoy and get involved in their surroundings.
Our broad remit means that our reach extends across the country. We work with people such as farmers, town and country planners, researchers and scientists, and the general public on a range of schemes and initiatives.
Put simply, our aim is to create a better natural environment that covers all of our urban, country and coastal landscapes, along with all of the animals, plants and other organisms that live with us.
If you are a parent or teacher looking for places to visit in the UK Natural England’s website has a good search facility where you can refine and select the type of place that you would like your children to get to know and understand better.
Amenities
Toilets
Disabled Toilet
Hard Surface Parking
Shelter available
Surfaced Paths
Picnic Area
Easy Access
Teachers Pack
Farm Facts Leaflet
Car parking
Minibus parking
Coach parking
Habitats
Flower-rich grassland
Ponds
Wetlands
Hedgerows
Dry stone walls
Heathland
Woodlands
Intensive grassland
Arable
Heather Moorland
Additional resources include searches for local:
Farm visits – Educational Access sites provide opportunities for schools
National Nature Reserves
Local Nature Reserves
Nature on the Map – an interactive site that includes maps of Local and National Nature Reserves and Country Parks
As well as national resources i.e Visit a National Nature Reserve.
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…
Primary Teacher UK is an information, news and resources using blog technology for primary teachers in the UK. The PSHE material is primarily Citizenship based although there are some safety aspects within the blog.
The navigation for categories is near the bottom so you will need to scroll down until you get there. Our link takes you straight to the PSHE category.
The Google UK Schools Site offers free resources for teachers to help use Google tools in the classroom.
Working with teachers, we have developed ideas for how Google Search, Maps, Earth, Images and News can be integrated into the curriculum to help bring subjects such as geography, history and citizenship to life.
Google UK for Schools contains a wealth of ideas and resources and if it is like anything else that Google do will continue to develop into a huge resource. The resources are currently based around geography, history and citizenship (with no real emphasis on the safety aspects, however, over time we expect the safety aspect to develop) including:
If you are looking to create a free educational blog, Edu Blogs claims to be “…the largest education community on the Internet…” current total is 271,024 blogs.
Blogs are very easy to use. Although the second time we visited the main site there seemed to be server problems with long loading times, so a backup plan might be a good idea. That said it is free so it is unfair to whinge.
Getting Started with your educational blog
There are videos about 5 minutes long and between 4-8 MB in size to get you started. Also has a forum with a like minded community varying from experienced to beginner.
The website Drug Education News is not a forum in the Internet sense. Read their about statement.
The Drug Education Forum is the umbrella body for national organisations committed to improving drug education in England.
The Forum meets at least three times a year and we produce papers and reports that are intended to inform the development of policy and practice for drug education.
However they are using Word Press (blogging software) and articles have a comment section.
This blog tries to pick up relevant media and research stories about drug education. It mainly focuses on information in England as this is the geographical remit for the Drug Education Forum. We welcome comments that are on topic.
Specifically for teachers dealing with the Drugs, Alcohol & Tobacco aspect of PSHE curriculum. Visit their website.
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