Road safety should be one of your foremost considerations when planning trips out from the nursery. You could put posters up in the nursery hallway, include details in newsletters, and even get everyone to sign up to some road safety rules. It’s also a good idea to get parents and carers on board with your road safety initiatives and make sure they know what you’re doing so that they can reinforce the messages with the children in their own time. This is absolutely paramount when taking the children on outings (see section below), but should also be remembered in day-to-day life, particularly when arriving at and leaving the nursery, as children could also be arriving and leaving at the same time. Young children copy adults when learning how to behave, so it’s very important that all of the members of nursery staff are good role models in terms of road safety. Are gates and fences between roads, pavements and play areas kept in good condition?.Would mirrors help with maneuvering cars more safely?.Is there adequate lighting for when it’s dark?.Consider whether any road safety improvements could be made, for example: Think about parking areas, footpaths, boundaries and the ways in which staff, parents and children approach the building. Safety begins at home, so look up your nursery’s health and safety policy, and check what’s already in place in terms of making your own outside space safe. Recognising key traffic signs and noises.Being safe on a scooter (using helmets, controlling speed etc).Being safe within a car (using seat belts, car seats etc).Using the Green Cross Code: Stop, Look, Listen.The difference between the footpath and the road.The importance of holding hands with an adult when near or crossing a road.Preschool children should be able to understand and engage with the following road safety messages: The tone should be positive but resolute of course, there’s no need to alarm the children with descriptions of gory accidents, but they do need to understand that road safety is a serious matter. For preschool children, this means keeping messages simple and clear, finding fun ways of familiarising the children with these messages, and repeating them regularly. In order to be really effective, road safety teaching needs to be done in an age-appropriate way. Clearly it’s important to teach children about being safe on the roads, embedding good practice and positive habits from an early age and guiding their long-term behaviour as road users. Traffic is the single biggest killer of 12 to 16-year-olds. The Importance of Learning About Road Safetyįive people die on roads every day in the UK, while another 60 are seriously injured.

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