Joined: 17 June 2005 United Kingdom Posts: 3869 Gender: Female
Posted: 28 September 2008 at 7:43pm | IP Logged
Hello- can you help me!
Just doing a bit of background research (for work) on road safety education for pre-school, nursery/ reception age children.
Do you have access to the Children's Traffic Club in your area? If you do- how do you find the materials? Is there anything you would change? Is there anything you like?
If you don't have this club, do you have access to any other schemes? Are there home materials or does all the road safety education happen in school/ nursery for your child/ children.
Joined: 11 September 2007 United Kingdom Posts: 3072 Gender: Female
Posted: 28 September 2008 at 8:19pm | IP Logged
Hmmm hi lynie i've never heard of this....
The school covers basic green cross code just before walk to school weeks but never put it into practice it's up to the parents here to teach the kids stop look and listen.
Joined: 17 June 2005 United Kingdom Posts: 3869 Gender: Female
Posted: 28 September 2008 at 9:33pm | IP Logged
The Children's Traffic Club is a resource for pre-school children to teach them road safety. There are packs of resources for nurseries and childminders. Every child in Scotland and London and certain pockets of the rest of the UK receive an invitation just after their third birthday to join the club. If the parent responds the child receives 6 booklets through the post that contains activities, stickers and competitions all aimed at teaching road safety.
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Posted: 28 September 2008 at 10:15pm | IP Logged
As far as I know Ollie doesn't receive any road saftey type teaching at school, I might be wrong and Keith might be the better person to answer as he takes him to school and picks him up every day not me. Obviously we teach Ols how to cross the road safely, etc.
Joined: 27 October 2005 United Kingdom Posts: 1673 Gender: Female
Posted: 29 September 2008 at 9:06am | IP Logged
We received Harrys invite to join just before his 3rd birthday and I enrolled him. So far we have received 2 packs through the post. I think they are very good but possibly the tasks are a little too hard for a 3 year old . Harry enjoys looking at the pictures and talking about what is happening and the stickers.
East Ayrshire libraries also have reference copies of the booklets in some of their libraries.
I have also seen a display on the walls at Harrys nursery about safety that the pre school year have made so it is covered in the curriculum at his nursery.
Joined: 13 June 2005 United Kingdom Posts: 8832 Gender: Female
Posted: 29 September 2008 at 3:19pm | IP Logged
I have never heard of this but I think its brilliant.
Because of my disability I have taught eds the rules of the road from a very young age and he is brilliant, always looks and listens and never ever runs away from me. However anything that can reinforce this is brilliant. It worries me seeing some children on the way to school. I dont know if eds has learnt road saftey at school properly but I know it was mentioned today as they are doing 'People who help us' as a topic and eds was telling me about lollypop ladies today when mum dropped him home.
I'm so impressed with the scheme I have emailled them to see if I can enrole Eds.
Joined: 27 January 2007 United Kingdom Posts: 237 Gender: Female
Posted: 29 September 2008 at 8:15pm | IP Logged
Greater Manchester Police gave us a booklet once at a local early evening event which has happy and sad faces to distinguish between good and bad "green cross code" and traffic safety with pictures and just a sentence or two per page, but that's all we've had.
Joined: 11 June 2005 United Kingdom Posts: 8764 Gender: Female
Posted: 29 September 2008 at 9:08pm | IP Logged
I have actually heard of it, but thats almost as far as it goes, I get a magazine or something every 3 months. If I'm honest I read the first one, butwith Fred being a little slower on comprehension have put it somewhere safe for now and will get it out in a while again
Joined: 30 June 2005 United Kingdom Posts: 6877 Gender: Female
Posted: 30 September 2008 at 2:48pm | IP Logged
Someone came into the school to talk to all lower school about road safety, and they are going out in a few weeks doing a programme called 'Kerb Craft'. We were given leaflets and information about the programme, and a small booklet to read with our child. The children have been supplied with stickers, certificates on completion and reflective jackets/badges for bags etc. hth
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