Road safety in schools

Brighton & Hove City Council is keen to work with schools.

We provide schools with several road safety services, including:

• Child Pedestrian Training
• Cycle Training
• School Travel Plans
• School Crossing Patrols

We have had theatre in education tours in both secondary and primary schools. These highlighted issues related to travelling to school for potential new drivers/riders and their passengers.

Road safety resources for schools

Nursery schools

Nurseries can play a vital role in educating children from an early age and help to promote road safety in the local community.

Road safety resources online include: Explore education resources – THINK!.

Primary schools

Download Piers the meerkat's road safety posters: Stop, look, listen poster (PDF 643KB) and Be bright, be seen poster (PDF 947KB).

Schools can get free road safety posters and leaflets from the Department for Transport.

If you plan to use road safety as a topic in the classroom, download free lesson plans and worksheets.

Road safety is an excellent topic in assemblies. Download our road safety assembly plans for 4 to 7 year olds (PDF 370KB).

Download a road safety information card which illustrates, using symbols, how to cross the road safely using a pedestrian and zebra crossing.

Secondary schools

You can get resources from the Think website by the Department for Transport and uksafetystore.

With Sussex Safer Roads Partnership, we offer Theatre in Education:

• at year 7: streetwise (pedestrian safety - students at higher risk as new to independent travel)
• at year 11: passenger (where students are more likely to be passengers in peers' cars, learning how they can manage risk on roads and take control of risky situations). 

Secondary schools have limited time for PHSE, so we concentrate resources on these two productions, but we'll help with projects where we can, on request.

Tertiary and 6th form colleges

The Fire Service run Safe Drive Stay Alive sessions for colleges, focused on driver and passenger awareness on the 4 fatal factors:

• drink/drugs
• speed
• distraction
• seatbelts 

We offer complimentary New Driver Awareness sessions, which facilitate discussion on effectively minimising risk as a new driver or passenger.

We also attend college day events on:

• drink/drug awareness
• active travel
• being a new driver/biker

More information

Contact the Road Safety Team for more information.