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//What is RoadSense- Ata Haere?//
RoadSense is a national professional development and support strategy for primary and intermediate schools, which aims to reduce the number of children [|killed and injured] on and around New Zealand roads.It’s a joint partnership between [|New Zealand Transport Agenc]y and the [|New Zealand Police.] which builds on and supports the work of police education officers around the country. At present there are 260 RoadSense schools in 12 regions. The new strategy replaces the previous RoadSense education programme, which has been introduced at more than 1500 schools since it was established in 2001.

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**//What has changed?//**
Changes in the revised RoadSense-Ata Haere strategy include:


 * providing teachers' professional development, including age-appropriate road safety messages in line with stages of child development, determining measurable outcomes and using simple assessment tools.
 * embedding a whole-school approach into school planning, with snapshot, vision and action plans.
 * aligning RoadSense-Ata Haere to the revisied New Zealand curriculum showing the link to inquiry learning and key competencies.
 * emphasising the partnership between Land Transport NZ and the NZ Police, and that police education officers and the [|Police Road Safe series]are an integral element in the strategy.
 * emphasisng practical teaching and learning in real life situations, which research shows is the most effective form of road safety education.
 * providing a matrix of learning outcomes for road safety education that outlines the knowledge and competencies that students develop through learning levels 1-4.
 * providing additional material on sustainable transport.

In October 2008, the RoadSense Handbook was updated. Here is a list of the changes

· New matrix in which the wording is aligned more closely to that of the new curriculum · Changed links in sample approaches to reflect the new matrix · Updated school snapshot · New section in key messages about riders to match exactly the wording of the cyclist skills training guidelines · Changes to sample approaches that included cyclist skills (either deleting or replacing the sections concerned) · Some additions to the glossary · Changed title of the NZ Transport Agency throughout the text · Table of contents at start of Approaches section · Updated road death/injury stats · Some small wording changes throughout text. The CD-Rom has also been updated to reflect the changes (though a few last minute small (non-critical) changes to the text of the printed handbook were too late to go on the CD-Rom – where in doubt, the printed version is the latest).

**//Resources include://**

 * Teachers handbook-resources, templates and information required by schools to implement the RoadSense-Ata Haere strategy.
 * CD-Rom-aprintable version of the handbook as well as resources and templates supplied as editable MS word documents.
 * [|Website-]information, ideas and material for teachers.
 * RoadSmart DVD-a teaching too that supports the key messages in the RoadSense-Ata Haere strategy.



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**//Snaphot, Vision and Action Templates [[file:School Snapshot V2.doc]]//**




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**//Useful websites that can be used to support Road Safety education are: //**
 * [|www.roadsense.govt.nz]
 * [|LTSA Publications.]
 * [|www.landtransport.govt.nz]
 * [|www.police.govt.nz]
 * [|www.safekids.org.nz]
 * [|www.feetfirst.govt.nz]
 * [|www.travelwise.org.nz]
 * [|www.bikewise.co.nz]
 * [|www.acc.co.nz]
 * [|EOTC]
 * [|World Health Organisation-Road Safety publications.]
 * [|Share my story site]


 * //Learn all about Wikis//**
 * [|Take a wiki walk through....]
 * [|How can wikis be used in the class...]
 * [|Why use a wiki?]
 * [|Things to consider when creating a wiki...]
 * [|Excellent short videos explaining how wikis work.]
 * Get to know this wikispace by completing this challenge...[[file:Wiki Challenge for Staff.doc]] [[file:Staff Wiki Challenge-updated..doc]]

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