Road Safety Week

This week we talked to children about Road Safety. In Monday’s assembly Mrs Frappell shared this year’s Road Safety Week theme: Speed. In daily reviews and Friday’s PSHE lesson, in classes, we talked about Green Cross Code using the information below:

1. THINK

• Find a safe place to cross the road.
• Where possible cross at a subway, footbridge, zebra crossing, traffic island, crossing point controlled by a person, pelican/puffin/toucan crossing

2. STOP

• Just before you get to the kerb, stop.
• Stand on the pavement near the kerb and make sure that you can see the traffic. DO NOT step on to the road.

3. LOOK

• Look all around you for traffic. Make sure that you listen carefully for traffic that you can’t see.
• Check to your right hand side first, then check to your left and then to your right again before you cross.
• Beware that some roads, called one way streets, have all of the traffic moving in the same direction.
• Watch out for bicycles or people on rollerblades. You often don’t hear them but they travel very fast.

4. WAIT

• If traffic is coming, let it pass.
• If you are waiting at a crossing then wait until the cars have stopped or, at pelican, toucan, puffin or pegasus crossings, the green man shows, before you cross.
• If you are not at a crossing wait until it is safe to cross.
• Once the traffic has passed look around again and listen.

5. LOOK AND LISTEN AGAIN

• When it is safe and there is no traffic, walk straight across the road.
• Keep looking and listening while you cross the road. Watch out for cyclists, motorcyclists and horse riders. Always walk straight across the road, DO NOT walk diagonally.
  NEVER run across the road because you might fall over and you might not get up in time.

6. ARRIVE ALIVE

• Look and keep looking while you cross the road.

For more information on talking to children about the green cross code, please follow the link below:

https://www.roadwise.co.uk/schools/using-the-road/green-cross-code/