Education, Training and Publicity
Road Safety Education, Training and Publicity in Haringey
Our yearly 'Smarter Travel' newsletter is available to download from the attached files section at the bottom of this page.
The education of children and young people is of vital importance in establishing responsible attitudes and behaviours in road users from an early age. We are keen to promote the Children's Traffic Club and encourage parents to be actively involved with the teaching of road safety to their young children by joining this award winning free to join club. On-going, in-depth research proves it works and helps save lives! To date over 2.5 million children around the UK have become members and received The Club materials directly into their home.
To find out how you can get involved as a parent or professional in the UK and internationally please visit the Traffic Club website (external link)
Haringey’s Road Safety Team are continuously working on projects and initiatives to promote the development of safer transport and travel skills, with the primary aim of reducing borough road user casualties.
We have available a range of leaflets, videos and other resources which offer advice to parents, drivers and elderly road users among others.
Programmes are designed for specific ages or road users. Close liaison between Road Safety and other stakeholders is the key to a co-ordinated and effective approach to Road Safety Education.
Campaigns
The Road Safety team are involved in the promotion of Local, London-wide and National Campaigns. Road Safety issues are highlighted through exhibitions and displays. We support campaigns such as those targeting Mobile Phone users, Seat Belt wearing, Child Road Safety, Walk to School Week, Speeding and Driving under the influence of Alcohol or Drugs.
Campaigns we have been working on include:
- Junior Citizens
- Road Safety Theatre in Education
- Get Clued Up - Anti Drug Driving Campaign
- Busology
- Haringey School Crossing Patrol Service
- Accreditation for Schools
2011 Projects
For further information on Road Safety Education Training and Publicity, please call the team on 020 8489 1417.
|Back to topJunior Citizens
Aimed at year 6 pupils, Haringey Junior Citizen promotes Health, Safety and Citizenship through a series of interactive learning experiences. The scheme consists of simulated scenarios that are used to make possible dangers come to life, providing children with a controlled environment in which they can safely participate and learn through hands-on experience.
The Road Safety team work in partnership with the Metropolitan Police, Transport for London, the London Fire Brigade, the London Ambulance Service, EDF Energy Services and Tottenham Hotspur Football Club Foundation to provide a fun and exciting educational environment.
Over 1,200 Year 6 pupils from schools across the borough attend the two week Junior Citizen programme each year before they make that vital transition onto secondary school. This year's Junior Citizens campaign runs from 20 June to 1 July 2011.
The Road Safety team have been successful in securing funds to sponsor Junior Citizens for three years.
|Back to topRoad Safety Theatre in Education
Theatre in Education is a powerful medium in which to get across Road Safety messages particularly to the 11 to 16 year old age group who are statistically at greater risk of becoming road user casualties.
The Road Safety team have worked in partnership with Transport for London to co-ordinate the following theatre shows in borough primary and secondary schools, part of our co-ordinated approach to achieving the 2010/11 casualty reduction targets.
|Back to topNow You See Me, Now You Don't – Key Stage One
'Now You See Me, Now You Don’t' is an interactive performance and workshop package designed for Year 6 (KS1) pupils we are pleased to able to re offer this production for the school year 2011-12 please contact us if you are interested in booking this for your school.
The action focuses on a crash in which Aaron, an 11 year old boy is hit by a car. The play explores the events leading up to the crash for Aaron and his best friend Kali who have recently started secondary school. The audience are asked to become detectives in trying to establish who is to blame.
The performance aims to improve young people’s preparation for secondary school and the longer journeys that face them as they get older. The package will also improve young people’s understanding of the fact that they have increasing control and influence over their own and other peoples safety by increasing knowledge about key road safety messages which include: the importance of being seen, making eye contact, being focused and being alert to other people’s mistakes.
|Back to topGet Clued Up - Drug driving… you'd be off your head!
This is a new campaign that we are bringing into our schools and colleges.
As drug driving is most prevalent among 17 to 35 year olds, we believe it to be critically important that students who are now entering this high-risk age group should be properly equipped with the information they need to make the right choices about drug driving both as passengers and drivers.
The information is delivered by their tutors through tried and tested lesson plans, with the aim of dispelling the myths and delivering the facts such as penalties of driving under the influence of drugs: £5,000 fine, up to 6 months in prison and loss of licence and consequences they may never have considered: job opportunities reduced, criminal record for life, sky high insurance, lifetime ban on entry to the USA. With the ongoing collection of data from the campaign it will be continuously monitored and updated.
Any school or college interested in delivering this resource should contact:
- The Road Safety Education Team on 020 8489 1417/5351.
Please also see the external links section at the bottom of this page to visit the Get Clued Up site.
|Back to topBusology
Our School Travel Team recently took part in a TfL funded project with Park View School involving the pupils and staff, looking at the way pupils behave and perceive bus travel.
They were encouraged to investigate attitudes and thoughts through school surveys. These have been used to create school lesson plans. The talented pupils penned a rap song that was then recorded. All of this work has been produced on a DVD/CD that was launched at Park View School in June 2011. The aim is to encourage better behaviour, on buses, from young people through interesting them in the bigger picture and relating it to their own experiences.
We have received positive responses about this project from the emergency services, PSHE teachers and TfL departments who deal with the behaviour of young people using public transport. We are currently improving the initial package and hope this should be widely available this school year.
The lesson plans will be made available for all Haringey schools for use in PSHE lessons.
For more information please contact The Smarter Travel Team on 020 8489 1417/1371.
|Back to TopWalk to School Week 2011
Walk to School Week is an action-packed awareness week held in the summer term, this year it launched on 16 June, but schools can choose to run it whenever it is convenient to them. We have resources are available from us or Living Streets website.
We encourage parents, teachers and local authorities to run fun events and activities to raise awareness about walking to school.
Each year we set a new theme which revolves around the different benefits of walking- for example Street Rangers, Sound Detectives and Walk and Talk. We produce loads of bright and colourful resources to help you take part.
Walk to School resources focussing on road safetyare available from the Living Streets website. Walking to school helps children learn vital road safety, awareness and orientation skills, improving their confidence for when they will walk independently when they're older. It has been proven that children who walk to school arrive more ready to learn.
Walk Once a Week (WOW) badge scheme is where schools record who walks to school each week and the children are encouraged to collect 11 different badges which have been designed by children throughout the country. Resources for this scheme are available through the Living Streets Walk to School website (external link). They have many free downloadable resources that can be downloaded too.
We know that this scheme is very popular and has encouraged School Travel Advisors to create their own schemes to reward children who use alternative, healthy modes of travel to school such as scooters and cycles.
|Back to TopHaringey School Crossing Patrol Service
Since 2000 local authorities have been responsible for the operation of the School Crossing Patrol Service (SCP)
In order to stop traffic and help people across the road, they must wear an approved coat and hat and carry the official sign. The uniform, equipment and training are provided by the council.
We have 35 sites at schools within the borough, however, recruitment is a problem faced by many local authorities and there are a few areas where the service is understaffed.
At present there are 17 School Crossing Patrol Officers in position - please see our web page listing the locations.
Volunteering Opportunity
School Crossing Patrol Update February 2011
Local authorities are encouraging schools throughout London with an initiative inviting people to volunteer their time to assist young people as School Crossing Patrol Officers. We wrote to schools where a need for crossing assistance has been identified. We plan work with schools on a trial basis to see whether parents would be willing to volunteer as school crossing patrol officers for between 2 and 10 times a week. We receive many requests from parents to recruit more school crossing patrol officers and we would like to tap into this passion and see whether parents could become involved in helping to provide this service with the local authority.
The Council currently employs 20 school crossing patrol officers but is not able to increase this number due to the significant savings that the Council needs to make in this and future years. Nevertheless, we recognise the importance of school crossing patrols in encouraging safe and sustainable travel to school. Given the budgetary pressures, we are looking to encourage parents or carers of pupils at our schools to volunteer as school crossing patrol officers. The work would be for one hour in the morning and one hour in the afternoon during school term but could be shared by a group of parents rather than one parent carrying out the role.
The Council will provide school crossing patrol uniforms, undertake the CRB check for volunteers and arrange for insurance cover. Full training would be given for the volunteers. We are sure that schools will encourage parents to volunteer for this initiative.
Any one interested should contact Parking Service Operations on 020 8489 4659.
|Back to TopSustainable Travel Accredited and Recognised Schools
This accreditation scheme has been designed to ensure a long-term commitment to sustainable travel planning in schools. With the target for all London schools to have a travel plan in place by 2009, the scheme provides a template for further development of travel plan work once the official document has been approved.
The scheme has been developed to ensure that the original commitments within travel plans to implement monitoring and evaluation are met by schools and local authorities. This will enable continued funding and support for sustainable travel projects in London such as WoW.
The scheme will also provide incentives and rewards for London schools that really embrace travel plan development. Those that go well beyond the minimum requirements will be celebrated as examples of good practice.
Lastly and most importantly, the accreditation scheme is in place to ensure that the standard level of school travel plan is sufficient to promote and achieve modal shift away from the car for the journey to and from school.
More information about Accreditation can be found by clicking following the external links section at the bottom of this page
|Back to Top2011 Projects
Transport for London Under Fives DVD Project
This project was carried out in partnership with four local authority boroughs, four nurseries within those boroughs and a media organisation.
Research commissioned by TfL has identified that communities living within areas of deprivation are at least twice as likely to be killed or seriously injured on London’s roads. Additional research has also identified that certain ethnic communities, most notably black communities, are also more likely to be killed or seriously injured on the roads in London.
This project aims to improve road safety awareness amongst communities which have been shown to be particularly vulnerable to disproportionate road casualties.
To this end the project is targets parents and children through nursery and primary schools and engaged them in the production of a DVD which will showcase new songs commissioned specifically for these most-at-risk communities.
The new songs have been translated into six community languages which will increase the level of engagement with people for whom English is a second language.
In addition parents and children attending the nurseries were filmed singing the songs. This is appealing to the target audience as it clearly demonstrate that the road safety messages advocated are for their benefit.
The boroughs who took part in addition to Haringey are: LB Newham, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and LB Croydon.
For a free copy of this educational resource, please contact Smarter Travel 020 8489 5351.
|Back to TopMotorcycling Campaign
Powered Two Wheeler (PTW) riders account for 1 percent of traffic on our roads but 19 percent of the Killed and Seriously Injured (KSI's) reflecting the seriousness of the problem and the need for it to be addressed.
Haringey’s Smarter Travel Team are focused on reducing PTW casualties by tackling this challenging target group.
To achieve this and the overall aim of encouraging safer riding practises, Haringey Smarter Travel are sponsoring a set number of free 'CBT' and 'Back to Biking' courses for borough residents. Complimentary places will be subject to approval and allocated on a first come, first serve basis.
For further details please contact CSMT Motorcycle Training on 020 8887 0562 or through their site using the external link section below.
View the campaign promotional poster (PDF, 60KB).
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