Road Safety Education
To reduce the number of injury accidents involving children
within Worcestershire, we offer a number of education programmes
through schools:
This exercise, designed for years five and six, aims to make
children aware of relationship between speed and distance and how
this effects the time it takes for a vehicle to stop. The children
watch a DVD before participating in practical exercises on the
road, which includes measuring a 50 metre distance and timing
vehices passing over this with a stopwatch to reveal the speed of
the vehicle. The children also receive a work pack that they can
complete during future sessions in the classroom.
A programme of pre-driver training is being delivered to high
schools in partnership with the West Mercia Police, Hereford and Worcester Fire
Brigade, West Mercia
Safer Roads Partnership and Road craft. The course will
run in all the High Schools in Worcestershire, commencing November
2009, especially targeting year 11.
Students will participate in an interactive theatrical
performance completed by Tiny Giants. This is followed
up with workshops over the following weeks concluding with an off
road driving course by Road Craft on specially risk assessed sites
in Worcestershire.
The course aims to raise awareness of safe driving skills.
