This service is provided free of charge and all resources will be delivered direct to your school or organisation.

To request any of the resources on offer, simply contact the Road Safety Unit with details of your project on:-
0141 287 9043

To help plan your project, the following colour coded symbols indicate the resources most suitable for each stage.

 Pre 5      P1-P3     P4-P5      P6-P7

Children's Traffic Club

Sounds    An entertaining video teaching children to listen to traffic sounds and to recognise different vehicles - from a bicycle to a fire engine - by their sounds. This video can also be used in a quiz scenario to make the teaching of listening skills entertaining.

Let's Be Safe Out And About   This is an early reading big book which incorporates a number of play safe messages. The book is divided into seven sections, each covering a number of safety issues, with worksheets for children to complete.

Flipchart    A class viewing A2 flipchart with colourful illustrations of road safety themes. Teachers’ notes highlight the road safety content.

Look Out On The Road   This is a comprehensive first information book that shows how to avoid some of the dangers while out walking or cycling in a way that reassures rather than frightens young children.

First Steps - Peter's Journey    This is an enjoyable interactive CD Rom which illustrates safe pedestrian behaviour for young road users. Activity sheets and a certificate can also be downloaded.

Letters In The Snow    Letters in the Snow is a pack designed for younger children to develop listening skills. Three different stories on an audio tape highlight important road safety points. A storybook with colourful illustrations accompanies the tape.

Ace Monkey's Road Safety CD ROM    Infant stage pupils can use the mouse to guide Ace Monkey along a virtual street scene, learning all about road safety on the way. Watch real life video footage on the CD and take part in Ace Monkey’s fun road safety game.

Singing Kettle Busy Road Show    A video and audio cassette that reproduces the award winning tour of the Singing Kettle’s Busy Road Show.

Wooden Vehicles And Play Mat     A set of wooden vehicles and road play mat which enables children to develop imaginative play related to road safety scenarios.

Dominoes     This game includes 28 giant pieces featuring illustrations relating to road safety and on the reverse side the traditional numbered dominoes.

Pre-5 Sequences     A colourful set of 3 sequences which cover crossing the road, travelling on the bus and going to the ice-cream van. Designed to develop sequencing skills and language development through a road safety theme.

Lollipop Lady Hand Puppet     This colourful hand puppet is ideal for role play activities and creative play. It is a great way to help the development of public speaking and storytelling skills with a road safety theme.

Role Play Set     This set includes a child size school crossing patrol, fluorescent waistcoat and a zebra crossing, making it an excellent resource for role play activities.

Let's Go Driving     Young children can pull the tabs on this colourful book to enjoy a make believe trip to the seaside. Pupils can start the engine, turn the steering wheel, fill up with petrol or even change the tyre if there is a puncture.

Felt Road Safety Set     A fun story board for use with sets of road safety pieces is ideal in language development. The board can stand on the table top, lay flat or hang on the wall to enable young children to create their own road safety scenarios.

Traffic Floor Puzzle     A large floor puzzle with 8 pieces of street and road showing all the familiar sights of a town. The puzzle also includes 8 stand up pieces and 2 cars to allow simple road safety scenarios to be set up on the board.

Stepping Out Together     A pictorial resource that, on each page, has information to assist and encourage parents to discuss with their children safety on the road, in the car and on the bus. Colourful and bright stories that both children and parents can enjoy.

Street Feet     The Street Feet pack is designed to be used as a training aid for pupils learning about the basics of road safety. In the pack you’ll find 2 ‘roads’, 15 tabards, 3 destination mats and some road signs. The resource gives the children an opportunity to practise crossing the road in a safe environment using role play. They should acquire an awareness of road use patterns and start to think about their responsibilities as a road user.

Match Ups     This pack contains 4 colourful boards with 36 large pieces to match the boards. This activity can be used in a variety of ways e.g. to develop matching skills. The illustrations feature safe places to play, vehicles, people who help us etc.

Sequences    A colourful set of cards depicting seven common road safety sequences which are designed to encourage language development within the framework of road safety education.

Junior Road Safety Officers (JRSO)   This major scheme involves the appointment of JRSOs from P6 or P7 to raise awareness of road safety issues in their local community. The children have to apply for the job, giving reasons why they feel they would be suitable for the role. JRSOs are responsible for maintaining a road safety notice board, running competitions within the school and talking to assemblies or classes on road safety. They are fully supported by the Road Safety Unit who supplies them with an information pack and various posters and leaflets.

Four In A Row    This is an exciting road safety big book designed to develop literacy skills. The book features four children who attend the fictitious Castlethorpe Primary School. A variety of road safety issues are highlighted in a host of media styles, including a television interview, radio script and newspaper front page. Class sets of an A4 version of the book are also available.

Road Signs Activity Pack   The pack includes a set of 20 felt road signs and a felt board, a copy of the Highway Code and activity sheets which can be photocopied. The aim of the pack is to examine the purpose, design and usage of signs and is a useful complement to cycle training.

Safer Route Pursuit Game    This huge game combines education and entertainment in an experience that is fun but also highlights the importance of road safety when travelling to school. Measuring some 30 feet across, this game is ideal for use in a playground or gym hall and uses the children as human counters. The class can play the game in teams of up to 5 players as an exciting finale to a road safety project.

Today's Fear     ‘Today’s Fear’ is a presentation featuring ten stand up cartoon characters and is a fully interactive learning experience.

Portable Pelican Crossing    A portable pelican crossing training model is available to enable a demonstration of this crossing facility in an ‘off-road’ situation.

Interactive Road Safety Kit    This set aims to make learning interactive and entertaining and can be used as “stand alone” or as part of interrelated topics, such as a Health Awareness Week. The unique approach to hands-on learning encourages children to explore the issues for themselves but it can be used by family groups or as part of a display.

Traffic Trail      A Traffic Trail is also available for every stage as a cross-curricular aid to road safety. It is a fieldwork exercise designed to be used in the area surrounding the school to develop observation and recording skills. A Traffic Trail is beneficial in applying and discussing road safety issues in the real road environment.

Streetsense     Streetsense is an exciting new approach to teaching road safety in the primary classroom. The activities are fun and varied, covering individual, pair and group work. Activities include discussion, role play, investigations, ICT, worksheets, artwork, fieldwork and practical work. Streetsense aligns with Health Education 5-14 National Guidelines as Levels A to E are covered within the pack. Many activities in Streetsense link to Citizenship and also fit into the concept of a Health Promoting School. Every school in Scotland has been issued with the above resource as an important part of the national strategy for Road Safety Education.

Our Town Play Mat      This is a true-to-life large scale aerial photograph that gives a birds’ eye view of the real world. It has easy-to-recognise features and shows a busy street with all the street markings, traffic lights etc. Children can drive their toy cars or imagine they are walking to the town centre. An added attraction of the laminated surface of the play mat is that it can be used with water-based marker pens to explore topics such as ‘Safer Routes to School’.

Dim Family Seatbelt Demo      The Dim family consists of dolls that have been enlisted to persuade children to belt up in the car. The family are placed in a model car which hurtles down an 8ft ramp crashing at the bottom as the Dims smash straight through the paper tissue windscreen of their car. When the dolls wear their little seatbelts they remain securely fastened and this teaches the children about the transfer of energy as well as the road safety message.

Visual Aids       These are colourful posters which are produced by RoSPA and cover themes to match project work.

Leaflets      A variety of leaflets are also available to support project work e.g. Green Cross Code, Annual Statistics, Starting School.

Presentations      The Road Safety Unit can offer presentations to suit every stage within educational establishments. Each presentation features key teaching points relevant to that stage and is available to reinforce project work. Presentations can be booked by contacting the Road Safety Unit.

For further information on the services provided by the Road Safety Unit, contact:-

Glasgow City Council
Road Safety Unit
Land and Environmental Services
Richmond Exchange
20 Cadogan Street
Glasgow
G2 7AD
Tel: 0141 287 9043 or email land@glasgow.gov.uk

Feedback on the service of the Road Safety Unit is always welcome. If you have any comments we would be pleased to hear from you.

Useful Contacts

Scottish Road Safety Campaign 0131 472 9200
http://www.srsc.org.uk/

Department for Transport 020 7944 3000
www.dft.gov.uk/roadsafety

Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents 0131 455 7457
(RoSPA) http://www.rospa.org.uk/

Sustrans 01738 476 564
(information on Safer Routes to Schools) http://www.saferoutestoschools.org.uk/
http://www.sustrans.org.uk/

Child Accident Prevention Trust 020 7608 3828
(CAPT) http://www.capt.org.uk/