Road Safety

What is Road Safety

We work in every A*STARS primary school to deliver pedestrian training for parents and carers of reception pupils, and supervised training walks for Year 3 pupils.

Parent/Carer and Child Walks

At reception age, we invite parents/carers to join their children on a walk around the school vacinity. As each child has their own adult with them, it is the perfect opportunity for parents/carers to be encouraged to use safe road practices particularly when out with their children to understand how much or how little they know.

The talk is addressed to the adults, so only pupils of attending parents or carers take part.
Topics covered include:

• Child development - Knowing to walk with a grown up and hold hands near a road. Also understanding the difference between the footpath and the road.
• Crossing skills - introducing Stop, Look, Listen and Think
• Driveways/car parks - dangers that children need to be aware whilst walking along the footpath,explaining what to look and listen for
• Footpath - talking about positioning on the footpath when passing parked vehicles, explaining what to look and listen for

This walk is available to each new intake into the school, making sure that all children are included.