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Walk to school and safe routes to school This section is packed with quizzes, puzzles and information about walking to school. This material will help you to develop your own campaign to encourage pupils and parents to walk to school.

You can carry out a survey of how pupils travel to school by using the Travel Survey sheet. Once you have collected the information, you may like to show the results in a graph format. You could then display it on your notice board or even do a presentation in assembly.

There are a variety of leaflets available for this campaign. Please see samples sent with this information. You may like to think of some ideas for encouraging pupils and parents to walk to school.

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What is ‘Safer Routes to School’?

Safer Routes to School is a partnership between Casualty Reduction and the School Travel Plan Team, schools, governors, parents, pupils and others in the community. They work together to improve the safety of children on their journeys to and from school by using a variety of measures including road safety education, traffic calming, improved crossing facilities, and environmental improvements.

What are the aims?

* To provide a safer environment for children to walk and cycle to and from school by reducing road danger along the route

* To increase the number of walked or cycled trips to and from school

* To involve schools, parents, children and drivers in improving safety on routes around schools through a process of education, training and publicity

The School Travel Plan Team can provide a map of the school area to enable pupils to identify their routes to school. For more information please contact the Road Safety Team on 01803 207677.

Walk to school

Walking to school is good for you! It’s a great way to get all-round exercise and to keep fit.

We need to encourage more pupils to walk to school (with an adult if they are too young to travel alone).

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Assembly plan - walking to school We need to get all pupils to think about the way that they get to and the route that they take on the way to school.

What should you say in your school assembly?

What will you need to get across:

* Who the competition winners were

* The Green Cross Code

Always remember to SMILE

On the next page there is a script that you could use if you cannot think of anything to say. You could just use the script as a guide and develop your own ideas.

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the Green Cross Code:

* Find a safe place to cross, then stop

* Stand on the pavement near the kerb

* Look all around for traffic, and listen

* If traffic is coming, let it pass, look all around again

, walk straight across the road

* When there is no traffic near

* Keep looking and listening for traffic while you cross

We have more competitions for you, which the teachers may run in the

classroom, but if not extra forms will be on our notice board. We have

stickers for the best entries.

Remember that you should keep yourself safe when you are travelling besid

the road.

Follow the Green Cross Code whenever you have to

cross the road.

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Activities There are many different activities that you can complete within the topic of walking to school.

Over the next couple of pages you will find a travel survey, a competition about the green cross code, poem writing and road safety questions.

You may want to display the activities on your noticeboard for other pupils to see and use.

Also there are some answer sheets for your own information.

Remember - keep a record of all the work you do

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Road Safety Noticeboard

Travel Survey School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

I normally travel to school: (circle the appropriate answer)

on foot by bike by car by bus by taxi by train

I normally travel to school with: (circle the appropriate answer)

parents friends other parents brother/ sister alone

If I was able to choose a different way of travelling to school, I would prefer to . . . . . . . . .

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The Green Cross Code

When walking to school you should always use the Green

Cross Code.

Do you know the whole of the code?

Use one of the two-lettered words in the box to complete

The Green Cross Code.

Some words are used more than once.

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F_ _ d a safe place to cross, t_ _n s_ _p.

St_ _d on the pave_ _nt near t_ _ kerb.

Look all round f_ _ traffic, _ _ d l_ _ten.

If traffic is com_ _g, let it p_ _s, look all round aga_ _.

W_ _n t_ _re’s no traffic near, walk straight across t_ _ road.

Keep look_ _g _ _d l_ _ten_ _g f_ _ traffic while you cross.

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Road Safety Quiz 1. Name four safe crossing places.

2. Why should you walk straight across the road when crossing?

3. To make sure that other road users can see you what type of material should you wear in daylight and at dusk?

4. What should you remember when walking dogs near traffic?

5. When there is no pavement or footpath, where should you walk?

6. When should you use the “Green Cross Code”?

7. To make sure that other road users can see you, what type of material should you wear or carry at night?

8. Where should you cross when traffic is controlled by a school crossing patrol or police officer?

9. If you have to cross the road between parked cars, what should you do?

10. What is the safest way of getting in or out of cars?

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The Green Cross Code Answers: Find a safe place to cross, then stop.

Stand on the pavement near the kerb.

Look all round for traffic, and listen.

If traffic is coming, let it pass, look all round again.

When there’s no traffic near, walk straight across the road.

Keep looking and listening for traffic while you cross.

Road Safety Quiz Answers: 1. Any four of the following: Zebra Crossing, Pelican Crossing, Subway, Footbridge,

Puffin Crossing,Toucan Crossing,Traffic Lights, Island, Lollipop Person, Police Officer.

2. Because this is the shortest distance to cross and you will spend less time on the road.

3. Fluorescent

4. Dogs should be properly trained; keep them on a short lead; keep between the dog and the traffic.

5. You should walk on the right hand side of the road facing the traffic, one behind the other.

6. Every time you have to cross the road.

7. Reflective

8. Wait until they signal to you, then walk in front of them.

9. Choose a large gap between two cars, making sure that neither is about to move off. Using the edge of the cars as the kerb, stop, look and listen, then cross when it is safe to do so.

10. Use the door nearest the pavement; get in/out of the car when told to do so; make sure it is safe

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Acrostic Poem Complete this poem about walking to school. The first word of each new line must start with the letter given.

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This document can be made available in other languages, on tape, in Braille and in other formats. For more information please contact 01803 207678.

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