Road Sense

Session overview

Free Road Safety ‘Road Sense - Distractions’ session is for year 7. This is an interactive session with a supporting video which includes actors of secondary school age. The session covers students’ safety when traveling around the roads, this includes distractions like mobile phones and groups of friends.

This session discusses risks, distractions, causes and increases knowledge and understanding on how important it is to use all our senses to be safer around roads. The objectives of the session are set out below and support the student’s safety awareness when traveling around the roads, now they are becoming more independent. We do not use scare tactics only a positive and reinforcement of student’s common sense.

Session length

60  minutes - the time does not include time for teaching staff to register students, etc.

PSHE links

• Simple strategies to help build resilience to negative opinions, judgements and comments.
• To recognise and manage internal and external influences on decisions which affect health and wellbeing.
• How to identify and articulate a range of emotions accurately and sensitively, using appropriate vocabulary.
• To further develop the skills of active listening, clear communication, negotiation and compromise.
• The role peers can play in supporting one another to resist pressure and influence, challenge harmful social norms and access appropriate support.
• That the need for peer approval can generate feelings of pressure and lead to increased risk-taking;   strategies to manage this.

Objectives

• To identify risks and distractions on the journey to and from school - when crossing roads, or using busy pavements, certain behaviours can affect our focus and therefore safety.
• To understand the impact distraction may have on the journey to and from school - phone, earbuds, friends etc.
• To increase knowledge and understanding of the safer aspects of the journey to school - safer place to cross, taking distractions away, resilience peers and positive behaviours (looking after friends).
• To understand when crashes occur, the causation factors and impact on community (both immediate and wider).

Pre and post survey

Pre and Post session survey completion is essential by all students. The surveys are anonymous quick tick box questionnaires. The link to the online pre-session survey will be sent to your school to be completed a week before the Road Safety Officer is due.

Availability

Please book asap to secure your place for term 5 or 6. We are also accepting bookings for 26-27.

Contact

Contact saferroadusers@kent.gov.uk for further details and booking.

Session overview

Free Road Safety - Road Sense ‘Good Decisions' session is for year 9. This is an interactive session with a supporting video which includes actors of secondary school age. The session covers students’ safety when traveling around the roads, this includes distractions, hazard perception, mobile phones and groups of friends.

This session discusses risk-taking, distractions, hazard perception, causes and increases knowledge and understanding on how important it is to use all our senses to be safer around roads. The objectives of the session are set out below and support the student’s safety awareness when traveling around and crossing the roads. We do not use scare tactics only a positive and reinforcement of student’s common sense.

Session length

60 minutes - The time does not include time for teaching staff to register students, etc.

PSHE links

• Simple strategies to help build resilience to negative opinions, judgements and comments.
• To recognise and manage internal and external influences on decisions which affect health and wellbeing.
• How to identify and articulate a range of emotions accurately and sensitively, using appropriate vocabulary.
• To further develop the skills of active listening, clear communication, negotiation and compromise.
• The role peers can play in supporting one another to resist pressure and influence, challenge harmful social norms and access appropriate support.
• That the need for peer approval can generate feelings of pressure and lead to increased risk-taking;   strategies to manage this.

Objectives

• To understand and be able to demonstrate which way to look first when crossing a road and why.
• To be able to understand and identify hazards when traveling around roads.
• To understand how mobile phone, earbud, friends, impulse control etc. can cause distraction when traveling across the road.
• To be able to implement safer strategies when travelling across road.

Pre and post survey

Pre and Post session survey completion is essential by all students. The surveys are anonymous quick tick box questionnaires. The link to the online pre-session survey will be sent to your school to be completed a week before the Road Safety Officer is due.

Availability

Please book asap to secure your place for term 5 or 6. We are also accepting bookings for 26-27.

Contact

Contact saferroadusers@kent.gov.uk for further details and booking.