Road safety education

There are many project and initiatives aimed at school pupils, aiming to teach the skills required to become safe and independent pedestrians.

Pre-school, Foundation and Key Stage 1

Children’s Traffic Club

The Children’s Traffic Club is an award winning road safety education programme available free to all 3-4 year olds living in Barnet. The Club helps children develop their road safety awareness in a fun and enjoyable way. If you didn't receive your registration form from Barnet Primary Care Trust when your child reached 3 years old you can request a form from the Road Safety Team on details opposite.

Once you have registered, your child will receive seven fun and colourful storybooks, 1 every 3 months. The books are full of information, stories, games and activities for you and your child to do together.

Children’s Traffic Club Nursery Pack and Road Show

The nursery pack compliments the teaching that club members get at home. The pack is structured around 9 road safety themes, all of which are approached through stories, songs, rhymes, discussions, games, activities, counting and art.

The road show brings the characters in the storybooks to life in a fun and lively way and encourages children to join in and learn the road safety messages. The roadshow can be performed at nurseries, playgroups, early years centres, events and local shopping centres.

For more information on the club visit www.trafficclub.org

Healthy Activities and Practices for Preschool Years (HAPPY) Project

Road Safety topic

The HAPPY project is an early years health promotion initiative which is part of Barnet Healthy Schools Scheme and the National Healthy Schools Standard.

HAPPY health topics include Road Safety, Physical Activity, Emotional Well-being, Environment and Healthy Eating.

The Road Safety topic aims to encourage early years settings to promote road safety through various projects and resources such as the Children’s Traffic Club and the Road Safety toolbox. Settings should aim to focus the learning through a Road Safety themed week.

Road Safety Officers help by providing resources, role play equipment, parent leaflets, and also offer to run a child car seat checking session for parents during the week.

A – Z of Traffic Tales (5 to 7 year olds)

The free resource ‘A - Z of Traffic tales’ has been delivered to all primary school throughout London. For each letter of the alphabet there is an engaging short story with colourful and lively pictures, all presented in 6 ‘Big Books’. It is supported by a comprehensive teachers’ guide, crammed with ideas, discussion points, key words, a range of suggested activities for citizenship and road safety messages.

Let’s be Safe (7 to 8 year olds)

This classroom based project uses a large storybook which covers 7 road safety themes. If you are a Year 3 teacher in a Barnet school you can loan this resource for a term by filling in the application form and faxing / sending it back to the Road Safety team.

Lets be safe application form 2009 (PDF: 65KB)

Practical Pedestrian Training, Safer Moves (8 to 9 year olds, Year 4)

Practical pedestrian training is offered free to schools. There are 5 lessons which aim to raise awareness on differerent aspects of road safety and how pupils’ can keep themselves safe when out and about. Each lesson is designed to build on the previous one, culminating in the pupils using the Green Cross Code to cross a road. The five lessons include:

Street furniture
Different road users
Safe places to cross
The Green Cross Code
Summary lesson

Sessions 1 to 4 involve both an outdoor and classroom activity. A member of the road safety team will lead the first and final session.

If you are a Year 4 teacher and work in a Barnet school you can book Safer Moves through the Road Safety team.

Safer moves letter (PDF: 66.6KB)

Young Voyager – Pupils’ handbook (10 to 11 year olds, Year 6)

Free handbooks are available to Year 6 pupils, though their school, to help them with their transition from primary to secondary school. Moving onto secondary school usually means having to make a longer journey and having to make that journey without an adult for the very first time.

The pupils’ handbook has useful tips and activities to help increase pupils’ independence. Some of the topics covered include:

Travelling safely
Using maps
Strangers
Pedestrian journeys
Bus journeys
Train journeys
Cycle journey

If you are a Year 6 teacher in Barnet and would like to order Young Voyager handbooks please fill out the attached application and fax or send it back to the Road Safety Team.

Young voyager application form 2009 (PDF: 65.7KB)

Junior Road Safety Officer (JRSO) project (9 to 11 year olds, Year 5 / 6)

Two Year 5 or Year 6 pupils can become JRSO’s from each school at the start of each academic year. JRSO’s will be given a pack which contains road safety information, a campaign planner for the year as well as other road safety resources . A JRSO school guide will also be provided to a member of staff who can advise and guide the JRSO’s.

JRSO’s can initiate and lead on various campaigns throughout the year and call upon the Road Safety Team for assistance. Their school may have a particular issue on road safety they wish to tackle, or they may wish to promote other key road safety messages such as the Green Cross Code, Be Safe Be Seen and Belting up in the car.

The Road Safety Team also run campaigns and cometitions for JRSO’s to get involved with.

In order to register 2 of your pupils as Junior Road Safety Officers, fill in the application form and fax or send it back to the Road Safety Team.

Junior Road Safety Officer application form (PDF: 138KB)

Children, young people and families

Email this pageLast modified by: Cory Sunderland on 25/02/2010

Road safety education