Students

//**Class Activities for Students**//
 * ** Debate **: Divide students into two groups to debate a topical road safety issue.
 * ** Role play **: Write a group play (or individual plays) on a chosen road safety issue.
 * ** Create ads **: Create a road safety message to explain an issue (or to support one side of the issue). This could be a poster, postcard, radio or TV, slogan, PPT etc.
 * ** Write a letter **: React to an article from your local paper by contacting the letters to the editor column.
 * ** Rewrite **: Turn a Road Safety newspaper article into a dialogue between TV actors.
 * ** Present **: Creatively present findings/research/ to your classmates.
 * ** Draw **: Create a comic strip to explain how a road safety news issue affects a community.
 * **Blog**: Students could develop an individual or class blog as a medium to voice their points of view on road safety issues. Try [|VOX]
 * **Wiki:** Class develop a road safety wiki-invite parents and wider community to add input. Try wikispaces.com or [|wetpaint.com]
 * **Survey:** Conduct a survey on the safe behaviour of Pedestrians, Passenger, Cyclists and Bus.[[file:Observation sheet.doc]]
 * **Photo Essay:** Hand the children a digital camera, and let them loose. Look at this example from [|kids around the world.]
 * **Poster Ideas:** Use word to present a safety slogan poster.[[file:Design a Road safety Poster.doc]]

//**Further Ideas**//
 * In literacy or discussion periods, expand children’s road safety vocabulary to include words like pedestrian, crossing, kerb, hazard, while talking about road safety using story books and picture books. Please see Glossary p103-in RoadSense Resource.
 * Check out interactive sites and webquests.
 * Give the children scenarios to consider. For example, ‘Henry's ball is in the road because he threw it over the fence by accident. What should he do now?’
 * Draw or paint people/footprints on footpaths, empasising that people are safer on the footpath than walking or playing on the roads. Discuss why this is true.
 * Paint an ambulance in its bright colours. Discuss why it is painted brightly – so people can see it coming, very fast. Discuss, with appropriate sensitivity, how the ambulance could be carrying someone to hospital who has been hurt on the road. You can make sure this isn’t you by staying away from the road.
 * In your largest room, arrange children in a line and tell one child to run down the line. The child at the end of the line shouts ‘stop!’ How quickly can the child stop? Another child roller skates slowly down the line and is told to ‘stop!’ They can’t stop as quickly because they are on wheels, and wheels go faster than legs. Traffic can’t always stop in time. It may hit you if you go into the road.

**//Develop a STUDENT ROAD SAFETY COUNCIL. (Thanks to Murray-RS Fac in Taupo, for these ideas)//**
//**Student Road Safety Councils mandate could be to:**//


 * Increase student exposure to road safety issues and concepts.
 * Create and foster a caring/family school culture.
 * Help enlist support from parents.
 * Provide opportunities for leadership and decision making skills.
 * Develop positive relationships with stakeholders such as city councils, Nz Police, parents, BOT etc.
 * Encourage life skills.
 * Enhance self-esteem.
 * Develop avenues where positive personal growth will occur.
 * Empower students to make sound decisions based.


 * //The council could be involved in the following responsibilities or activities://**
 * Reflect and review on all aspects within and outside the school environment with Road Safety being paramount.
 * Establish links with significant groups-BOT, Principal, RSC, PEO etc.
 * Lead/assist with the whole school events such as Feet First, Bike Wise week, WOW.
 * Develop own programmes to address the need of the school.
 * Provide a Road Safety statement to the Principal and/or BOT for the school newsletter and/or website, strengthening links with the wider community.
 * Develop a 'council' blog to post new events and strategies.
 * Encourage parents to respond to road safety issues by running competitions eg-design a road safety slogan or poem.
 * The 'council' could offer a cup of tea/coffee for parents who walk there child to school.
 * Access a large map of the school zone-see RSC-, identify possible hazards, and establish safest route to school.
 * Establish 'park and walk' zones.
 * Establish a school notice board.
 * Provide a weekly safet hint to all classes-could be linked to the value or virtue of the week.
 * Run a "Spot the Safe Student" of the week award. Acknowledge in assembly, newsletter, blog, website.etc
 * Establish students 'walk meters'. Students graph their daily distance, compare weekly against other classes.
 * Interview older people in the wider community in order to compare then and now methods of getting to school-anticipate future trends.

**//[[file:Student Road Safety Council first meeting - Ali(Isy).doc]] [[file:3 EASY Road Safety ideas for Students to run..doc]]//**

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