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Road Safety Education, Training and Publicity in Haringey

Haringey’s Smarter Travel 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 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 Smarter Travel Team promotes 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:

2012/13 Projects

For further information on Road Safety Education Training and Publicity, please call the Smarter Travel team on 020 8489 5351 or email us at smarter.travel@haringey.gov.uk

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Junior Citizens

The Junior Citizen programme promotes Health, Safety and Citizenship through a series of interactive learning experiences for primary school children just before they make that vital transition onto secondary school. The two week event usually takes place after their SATs exams and consists of several interactive scenarios that are used to make possible dangers come to life, including stranger danger, personal safety with regard to electricity and travel on public transport. This is all managed within a controlled environment in which they can safely participate and learn through hands-on experiences.

The Smarter Travel Team work in partnership with the Metropolitan Police, Transport for London, the London Fire Brigade, the London Ambulance Service, EDF Energy Services and the Tottenham Hotspur Football Club Foundation to provide a fun and exciting, educational environment.

Important messages are delivered to this age group who are proven to be the most vulnerable especially where road safety is concerned.

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Road 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 Smarter Travel Team work in partnership with Transport for London to deliver the following educational theatre productions to the borough schools.

This school year we are investing in four productions for the young people of Haringey

Key Stage 1: The Road Safety Magic Show
For Key Stage 1 pupils, going in to 20 schools over two weeks in October. "The Magic of Road Safety(tm)" was developed in conjunction with the police and local councils to provide a fun-packed entertaining show to help promote key road safety messages. The show covers areas such as hi-viz jackets, Stop-Look-Listen-Think, wearing a helmet and many other important issues.

Key Stage 2: The Competition
We are developing an interactive workshop for pupils in years 3,4 and 5 incorporating the key messages for road safety in an engaging format with an established production company. At the end of the play the actors engage with the children re-enforcing the messages and checking that they have been absorbed. The workshop encourages them to participate and create a poster with the messages. There will be a prize for the most impressive poster within each school and then they will be judged for an overall winner.

Key Stage 3: Split Second
The play is focussed on two siblings on their journey to and from school and the negative influence of a 'friend', who tries to bully and pressurise the siblings into bad behaviour. This has a disastrous effect as the younger sibling ends up being injured by a car, he knows then that his promising football career is over due to a Split Second accident. The actors are expert in engaging the young audience during an after play workshop, drawing out their understanding of the play and the messages it delivers. This encourages Year 7 pupils to investigate the issues surrounding behaviour and the problems associated with peer pressure to act irresponsibly and dangerously near roads.

Key Stage 5: Safe Drive Stay Alive
Safe Drive Stay Alive is a powerful Theatre in Education production that we are sharing with Enfield Council. This year we are inviting our six form colleges to allow students to attend the production at the Millfield theatre. The reports from around the UK where this has been delivered are so positive and powerful we are working at establishing it as a regular event in our road safety calendar too.

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Get Clued Up - Drug driving… you'd be off your head!

The campaign resources have been delivered to all of our secondary schools to be used during their PSHE lessons.

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. The results from the collection of data from the campaign will be available soon.

Any school or college interested in this resource should contact:

  • The Smarter Travel Team on 020 8489 5351

Please also see the external links section at the bottom of this page to visit the Get Clued Up site.

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Busology Competition Launch 8 November 2012

Competition Launching on 8 November at Vue Cinema, Wood Green N22 - 4pm.

Prize winners will be announced in March 2013 when the winning entry will be developed by a professional production team.

Following on from the pilot scheme developed with the help of Park View Academy and and Rockall Media, we are excitedly planning the launch.

All secondary schools are invited to attend the launch to hear from Cllr Canver and the production team at Rockall Media who will detail their support for this competition.

  • For more information please contact The Smarter Travel Team on 020 8489 1417/1371
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Walk to School Week 2013

Walk to School Week is an action-packed awareness week held in the summer term. Resources will be supplied to schools and more are available from the Living Streets website (external link). Schools can choose to run it whenever it is convenient to them.

The aim of the week is try to encourage as many parents and carers as possible to walk their children to school, with the overall aim of encouraging a long term change in their travel patterns on the journey to school.

The Living Streets website has free lesson plans and resources for key stage 1 and 2 to accompany this and the other walking campaigns.

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 a scheme 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 Walk to school website (external link). They have many free online 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.

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Haringey School Crossing Patrol Service

Since 2000 local authorities have been responsible for the operation of the School Crossing Patrol Service (SCP).

There are approximately 17 School Crossing Sites in the borough - please see our web page listing the locations.

  • Any one interested should contact Parking Service Operations on 020 8489 2102 or visit the school travel page
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Sustainable Travel Accredited and Recognised Schools

We are actively encouraging all of our state and independent schools to complete the new School Travel Plan online form. This has proved very successful across London.

The Smarter Travel Team are aiming at increasing the number of accredited schools in the borough. Currently we have two Gold and five Silver Accredited Schools and several bronze achievers.

Schools with an Accredited school travel plan (STP) have shown a 9.41% decrease on average in car use since 2004. For the higher achieving schools the decrease in car use stands at an exceptional 12.36%.

The STAR Accreditation scheme guides a school through several processes to implement a successful STP that can provide both short and long term benefits to the school community.

  • More information about Accreditation can be found by clicking following the external links section at the bottom of this page
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Projects

Motorcycling Campaign - Free courses and support available

Motorcyclists and moped riders account for 1 percent of traffic on our roads but make up 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 Smarter Travel Team 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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Page Last Updated: 26 March 2013

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