Road safety in schools
Road safety learning available to children
Brighton & Hove City Council is keen to work with schools.
We provide schools with several road safety services, including:
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.
- Travel and road safety website
Contact the Travel and Road Safety Team for information about travelling around the city, road safety, and how to report issues with our roads and highways.