Other road safety activity

Other road safety activity

About this activity

Suitable for all schools and nurseries.

We know that your schools and nurseries are creative places and your pupils, staff and communities are bursting with ideas of how to get young London moving!

This is your chance to share your school’s own original road safety activity, different to anything else already listed on the STARS site.  

Work with your TFL Pioneers/Ambassadors, your school travel working group and colleagues to make a real difference to your school community's awareness of road safety. Also include and involve yourf Borough Travel Planning Officer.

Consider ideas to get pupils thinking, for example: a road safety bear dressed in its own hi-vis jacket to encourage pupils to learn the green cross code or gather pupils to work together in view of creating a giant montage in the playground displaying key road safety messages. This is an oppotunity to get creative!

Tell your story now! 

How to evidence your activity

  • Involve your borough travel planning officer: Share your ideas, agree your objectives and discuss any challenges you face
  • Record the impact of your activity. Are more pupils behaving more safely on their way to school as a result? Do they have an increased awareness of how to stay safe? 
  • Sign in to TFL Travel for Life account to add your story. Explain the activity, add photos, include pupils’ feedback and any promotional materials you produced

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

Activity steps

1
Identify the issues
Determine which travel issue or behaviour are you trying to resolve or change and discuss your ideas with your head teacher and borough travel planning officer
2
Working together
Work with your school travel working group, TFL Pioneer/Ambassadors, colleagues and borough travel planning officer to develop and plan your road safety activity
3
Promote
Promote your activity to have the biggest impact possible! Take photos, write an article to include in the school’s newsletter or on its website or consider a competition with entries displayed.
4
Measure the Success
Check the impact your activity had on the school community’s awareness of road safety and measure it's success. Record feedback and note your observations
5
Tell your story
Add your story to the TFL Travel for Life website and feedback to your borough travel planning officer

Tags

  • Road safety

This activity counts towards:

  • Travel activity

How it helps

  • Encourages road safety and awareness
  • Promotes positive travel behaviours

Resources

Useful links, templates and case studies to support this activity