Key Focuses Include:

• A holistic approach to road safety education including presentation, child-directed play, hands-on learning:

• Pedestrian – holding hands, stop look listen think, road crossings, traffic lights and signs.

• Passenger – driver distractions, car seats, seat belts, safety door.

• Pedals/wheels - helmets, footpaths, bright clothing, shoes, where to ride.

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Victorian Early Years Learning & Development Framework Connections:

 

Children have a strong sense of identity

• Confidently explore and engage with social and physical environments through relationships and play.

• Take a considered risk in their decision making and cope with the unexpected.

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Children are connected with and contribute to their world

• Develop a sense of belonging to groups and communities and an understanding of the reciprocal rights and responsibilities necessary for active community participation.

• Broaden their understanding of the world in which they live.

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Children have a strong sense of wellbeing

• Demonstrate spatial awareness and orient themselves, moving around and through their environments confidently and safely.

• Show enthusiasm for participating in physical play and negotiate play spaces to ensure the safety and wellbeing of themselves and others.

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Children are confident and involved learners

• Resource their own learning through connecting with people, place and technologies of the external environment.

• Use reflective thinking to consider why things happen and what can be learnt from these experiences.

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Children are effective communicators

• Contribute their ideas and experiences in play, small and large group discussions.

• Develop an understanding that symbols are a powerful means of communication and that ideas, thoughts and concepts can be represented through them.