Over To You - Your Choice

Over to you - Your choice is a teacher-led, flexible resource pack. It includes six road safety scenarios.

All scenarios in the resource pack:

• Are suitable for secondary school students from year 7 to year 11
• Can link into the key stage 3 and key stage 4 curriculum. This includes Drama, English, Sociology, Philosophy and Ethics and PSHE lessons.
• Are suitable for a range of different sized groups. For example, a full assembly, class activities, smaller group work or on a one-to-one basis.
• Are suitable for youth workers, family workers and home educators to use
• Align with our Flourish principles. This is through empowering students to learn in a safe, facilitator-led environment. It helps students to foster road safety independence and resilience.

The scenarios focus on road safety and active travel. They allow students to explore different choices through:

• Discussion
• Debate
• Role play
• Drama productions
• Creative writing
• Creative arts

Aims of the resource pack

Students can observe and reflect on the results of their decisions or behaviours. This will be from the safety of a controlled space.

It can motivate them to consider the immediate and future impacts of their actions.

Students will have an improved understanding of:

• Distraction and the importance of staying focused when using roads and paths
• Speed limits and judging the speed of vehicles
• Safe road safety skills and behaviours when in control of a vehicle. This includes riding a scooter or bicycle.
• Safe choices when you're a passenger in a vehicle
• Skills and safe behaviours when using roads and paths
• Avoiding peer pressure to take part in risky road safety behaviours
• Personal responsibility to keep yourself and others safe when using roads and paths
• The importance of making a travel plan and independent travelling
• Personal health and community benefits to active travel
• Introduction to the highway code
• Using public transport in a safe and considerate way

Cost

The Over to you - Your choice resource pack is free.

Our Public Health department funds this resource.

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