Year 3: Digital Resource
Pupils are invited on a superhero themed adventure, putting on their thinking hats and hi-visibility cloaks and turning on their supersonic hearing and laser vision to become Road Safety Superheroes.
This resource comprises four videos, with each video introducing a new road safety themed challenge.
- Challenge #1: Crack the Code In this mini challenge Road Safety Superheroes use their brain power to try and recall the steps of the Warwickshire Road Safety Code.
- Challenge #2: Superhero Safety Sorting This challenge focuses on safer places to cross including zebra, puffin and toucan crossings and pedestrian refuges. Can our Road Safety Superheroes use their laser vision to spot the safest places to cross?
- Challenge #3: Tricky Crossing Tools Film introduces two animated characters called Emily and Ewan, aka Brainchild.Emily and Ewan teach valuable and timely road safety messages, including how to cross the road safely between parked cars and at junctions.
- Challenge #4: Superhero Skills Builder In this final challenge, pupils share their knowledge and learning and create their very own Superhero!
Year 4: Digital Resource
Using observational activities, engaging visuals and class discussion opportunities, this scientific themed session builds on prior messages to deliver a timely reminder about how to travel safely and actively during those darker mornings and evenings.
Dedicated Road Safety Officers guide pupils scientific thinking to answer the Big Brain Buster question “How do you keep yourself safe when you walk, cycle or scoot?"
Year 5: 45-minute class-based session or Digital Resource
Through a variety of carefully designed activities pupils are supported to enhance their knowledge and understanding of key skills, focusing on responsibility and the importance of making the safest choices as a road user.
This session focuses on developing pupils' awareness of potential hazards and distractions, such as a mobile phone and listening to music. Activities focus on how these distractions affect attention and impact on our ability to make safe choices when travelling actively and sustainably. Pupils develop ’coping strategies’ by identifying ways that they could personally limit each distraction, ensuring that they remain safe road users, minimising risk to themselves and to others
Year 6: 45-minute class-based session
Most Year 6 pupils are familiar with the Warwickshire Road Safety Code and know basic road safety skills, but they often fail to deploy this knowledge and these skills because: They react on impulse They go for a short-term gain rather than a long-term safety gain.
This interactive and engaging session focusses on Impulse Control and supports pupils with identifying impulsive decision making, recognising situations when they are most likely to act on impulse, identifying triggers for impulsive behaviour and developing coping strategies to help them stop and think before reacting.
Impulse control is associated with several road safety behaviours, such as:
- Distractions - mobile phone use and use of headphones
- Peer situations including walking and seeing friends.
- Time pressure and the importance of planning a route.
- Poor decision making such as crossing the road when the red man is showing.
As many of these issues are particularly relevant to transition learning to manage impulses is both timely and relevant to support young people to travel safely and actively.
If you would like to enquire about road safety education and active travel in your school please contact: roadsafetyeducation@warwickshire.gov.uk
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