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Strictly Road Safety

Suitable for early years and primary school pupils.

Overview

Programme

TfL Explorers Logo

Education phase

Early years Key stage 1 Key stage 2

Categories of activity

Travel

Types of activity

Road Safety

How it helps

  • Improves road safety
  • Opportunity for TfL Explorers Ambassadors
  • Encourages interaction with other pupils

About the activity

Strictly Road Safety is a fun activity in which pupils' road-crossing skills are judged by their classmates in a TV-gameshow style scenario, helping to practically develop their road safety awareness.

Set up a road situation in the playground including roads, pavements, other road users and traffic lights. You can use markers, ropes and other PE apparatus to do this and ask the class to pretend to be other pedestrians, drivers and cyclists. Then, ask your pupils to practice crossing roads safely in small groups.

Follow the activity with a ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ style questioning by a panel of judges including your TfL Explorers Ambassadors team. Encourage the panel to pick out where the pupil teams did well and not so well, focusing on looking both ways, using safer crossing points and other elements of the Green Cross Code (see Resources). Reward the winning team with a certificate and, if your budget allows, a trophy or other prize.

The activity can be adapted to your pupils’ needs but just remember to take photos, capture feedback and save your work to help you evidence your activity.

This activity supports the Vision Zero target to eliminate death and serious injuries on London’s streets.

Activity steps

Step 1

Prepare. Work with your working group to set a date for the activity, decide how you will run it, and plan the playground layout.

Step 2

Explain the activity. Talk the class through how the Strictly Road Safety activity works

Step 3

Get crossing! Ask judges to watch while pupils cross the road and note down their observations

Step 4

Strictly Road Safety. Work with the judges to give pupils constructive feedback and decide who’s won!

Step 5

Check for success. Ask your pupils how they found the activity. What key messages made them think and what did they find useful or enjoy?

Step 6

Tell your story. Upload evidence in "my activities".