The RAA’s Street Smart Primary programme provides South Australian schools with specially trained teachers to pass on the road safety message.
Road safety is an important life skill that we use almost every day in one form or another. It is important to reinforce the rules of the road and correct strategies to use when crossing a road, riding a bike, walking on the pavement, reading road signs and when using crossings for a train.
This session together with subsequent activities have been part of the programme as students in our year levels can often have a lack of knowledge and understanding of traffic and the road environment. Their sight and listening skills are still developing. They have difficulty judging speed and distance accurately. Perception, attention, memory and coordination are still being developed.
Road safety is most effectively learnt by combining first-hand experiences of real-life traffic situations with classroom activities. Of course this learning is on-going to develop good road safety habits. We trust you will see your children developing and using these road safety skills.
