YTA Road Safety Challenge

YTA Road Safety Challenge

About this activity

Suitable for secondary school pupils (Key Stages 3 and 4).

As part of the Youth Travel Ambassadors (YTA) Challenge programme, work with your YTA team to deliver a campaign to raise awareness of road safety and proactive ways to deal with safety issues that affect your school.

If your school isn’t already part of the YTA scheme, read the YTA activity card to find out how to sign up.

Contact your borough officer or YTA coordinator on [email protected] to get started. With their support and the best practice toolkit, your YTA team will learn about:

  • Why young people are most at risk on the road
  • How to identify road dangers
  • The different types of distractions and their consequences
  • How to make good decisions regarding road safety

They will then deliver an assembly to their classmates to raise awareness of road safety and launch their campaign to help everyone become a safer pedestrian.

The YTA Road Safety Challenge is made up of three sessions and can be delivered at any time throughout the school year.

What you’ll need

  • Up to 12 YTAs
  • Support from your borough officer or YTA coordinator
  • A member of school staff to oversee and coordinate the challenge (this could be your school’s YTA Guide)

How to evidence your activity

  • Involve your borough officer: share your ideas, agree your objectives and discuss any challenges you face
  • Record the feedback from your pupils. Note how this challenge has impacted responsible travel at your school and how this has helped meet your objectives
  • Sign in to STARS to add your story. Add photos of the YTA's campaign in action. Include pupils’ feedback and any promotional materials produced

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

Activity steps

1
Get started
Contact your borough officer or a YTA coordinator for access to the full resource and help with delivery
2
Think about road safety
With your YTA team, earn more about road safety and brainstorm ideas to tackle safety issues at your school
3
Present the facts
Using the ready made presentation, ask your YTAs to deliver an assembly to raise awareness of road safety
4
Launch the campaign
Promote the campaign and get pupils involved! Spread the word on posters, the website, and in the school newsletter
5
Check for success
How effective was the campaign? Did the pupils enjoy it? What key road safety messages did they take away?
6
Tell your story
Feedback to your borough officer and YTA coordinator and add your story to the STARS website

Tags

  • Independent travel
  • Road safety

This activity counts towards:

  • Travel activity

How it helps

  • Encourages safe interaction with other road users
  • Encourages road safety and awareness
  • Encourages class participation and team work

Resources

Useful links, templates and case studies to support this activity