Being safe on the road

Today we read a story called Teddy Takes a Tumble. It's about a teddy who doesn't have his seatbelt on in the car and falls over when the car has to stop suddenly. We talked about how to stay safe in the car by always wearing a seatbelt and then discussed some other ways of staying safe on the road when you are a pedestrian - someone who is walking.

We agreed that you shouldn't run near the road and you shouldn't walk too close to the curb. When you need to cross you have to "look left and right" (Emily) and "listen for cars that are coming" (Dexter).

We drew a road on the playground and practised walking alongside the road safely and then crossing safely. We talked about different types of crossing and how you always have to make sure a car has stopped before you cross. Sometimes at crossings there are signs with green and red men - red means stop and green means go, but you still have to check to make sure it's safe.

Then we got a car out and practised crossing the road safely when a car has stopped. We drew some more road on with chalk, including roundabouts and crossings, and got the rest of the bikes and scooters out. We took it in turns to be drivers and pedestrians and made sure we were being safe on the road!

We dressed up as police officers and practised stopping the traffic. We had to keep an eye out for people not obeying the rules of the road or being safe - if people didn't drive safely we had to write them a ticket! We also made some 'stop' signs - here is Dexter with his stop sign - brilliant writing Dexter!