Road Safety Wales : Education
This initiative, promoted in many Local Authorities throughout Wales, combines several safety disciplines into one project. Year 6 pupils spend up to 20 minutes at each interactive station, each dedicated to an aspect of safety. Road safety subjects include being seen, travelling in cars and safe cycling.
For further information on availability in your area, contact your local Road Safety Officer.
The scheme empowers children to highlight road safety issues within their school. This can be done through raising awareness amongst other pupils, teachers and the community, whilst maintaining links with their Road Safety Officer. The scheme links to Citizenship, which encourages pupils to take responsibility for their own learning and decision making. It also makes pupils aware of the important issue of road safety, and links this with the National Curriculum and Key Stage 2 guidelines. For further details log onto www.jrsocymru.org.uk
TiE is more than simply a drama performance. It describes a programme, which can comprise a performance supported by active audience participation, often in the form of interactive workshops. These are facilitated by the performers or teachers using a variety of techniques. TiE programmes are often supported by teaching materials designed to encourage further work following the visit, or preparatory work prior to the visit. TiE should not be a one-off, stand-alone intervention but the catalyst for, or reinforcement of, other work. Further information of programmes available in English or the Welsh Language can be obtained from your Road Safety Officer.
In 1995 the then Welsh Office, jointly with the Scottish RS Campaign, funded research into the effectiveness of road safety theatre in education. View a summary of the findings
Set inside the world of Law and order, ‘The Courtroom’ is a highly interactive performance. It takes the audience into a hugely entertaining, larger than life ‘Courtroom’, using the audience as jury members and people in the court.
The drama follows the story of a young boy who walked out into the road from between parked cars, whilst texting on his mobile phone. As a result, the car had to swerve to avoid him and hits an oncoming car.
Tragically, a young girl in the back seat is not wearing a seat belt and was thrown through the windscreen.
The exciting storyline has children enthralled and the performance covers topics such as seatbelts, pedestrian crossings and crossing between parked cars. This performance is aimed at 7-11 year old children.
Baron Chance is the malevolent overlord in the game of chance called life. If you take a chance he rolls the dice and it is not wise to gamble with your own life. However, all is not lost as the evil Baron Chance has a life-saving nemesis - the Fates.
The Fates, through the past, present and future, show the audience that they are in control of their own fate by making the right choices and not taking risks.
The play highlights the dangers that pupils face on the road, covering key road safety issues such as the green cross code, crossing between parked cars and the importance of wearing a seatbelt.
Jugglestruck’s Road Safety Shows are action packed, fun filled and crammed with education. They use juggling, magic, puppets and comedy to illustrate road safety issues. Jugglestruck perform two separate shows, one is designed for infants and the other for juniors.
www.jugglestruck.co.uk
It’s Cat’s birthday and she’s got a brand new Scooter. But there’s a problem. Common sense never came in the box! Her street-cred attitude lands her in Deepest Trubble and with the clock ticking Cat, along with the audience, goes on a quest to find the answers to a safer lifestyle on the road.This fun production aims to promote the craft of Road Safety and covers topics such as cycle safety, pedestrian responsibility and above all, common sense.
www.walkingforward.co.uk
Walking to school is on the decline. Since 1999 the Welsh Assembly Government has allocated funding of over £27 million to Safe Routes to School projects. As well as tackling the congestion caused by the school run, the initiative aims to improve the independence and health of children, showing them there are alternatives to the car.
DangerPoint is a dedicated centre providing hands-on safety education to specifically for children and young people but all members of the community can enjoy what's on offer.
DangerPoint is an highly effective way of providing people with the skills to avoid everyday dangers and risks. In this unique controlled environment, people can actually see and hear the hazards they may encounter in real life, but without the risks. The educational experience is linked with PSE curricular activity.
There are two main ways you can experience DangerPoint:
- As a part of an organised school trip: primary and secondary schools
- As an independent visitor: weekends and school holidays
Pedestrian, cyclist and young driver safety. Braking distances etc. Protective and distinctive clothing. Car crime, effects of alcohol and drugs, misuse of mobile phones. Safety as a car passenger.
Find out more
The Rhondda Cynon Taf Safety Zone in Treforest is a mock village allowing children and others in the community to learn about potentially dangerous situations in a controlled environment that mimics real life scenarios.
The centre on the Treforest Industrial Estate replaces the original Safety Zone that was housed at smaller premises on the estate. The 10,000 foot square site includes a street with a shop, police station, railway track, forestry, farmyard, electricity sub-station, building site, realistic road accident, recycling, school bus safety site and a fire safety house. A road runs through the centre with a pedestrian crossing and a realistic street corner to assist with road safety awareness sessions.
