As a part of our previous unit of Inquiry about Safety, our class visited the Road Safety Centre at Thebarton. We went on our excursion with the children in Mrs Chick’s Year 2 class.
We travelled to the Road Safety Centre by bus and we were met by Police Officer Rob when we arrived. We had a quick tour of the centre and then watched some Safety videos in the school area.
We learnt about:
- Helmet safety
- Car passenger safety
- Safety equipment when riding bikes
- Road crossing rules
- Bike safety
- Pedestrian safety
Then we went outside and fitted our bike helmets and chose a bike to ride around. Mrs Chick’s class were the pedestrians. After 45 minutes we swapped over and our class became the pedestrians and Mrs Chick’s class rode the bikes.
We had a lot of fun practising the road rules and safety rules while we rode our bikes on the mini road set up. We had to stop at the red lights, go on the green lights, stop if the railway signals were flashing on and off, stop for pedestrians at emu and school crossings, remember which way to go around the roundabout and most importantly to ride on the left side of the road.
When we were pedestrians we needed to wait at the lights for the green pedestrian man to light up so we knew it was safe to cross the road, look right, left and then right to cross the road safely, use the emu crossing and watch out for speeding bikes!!
We LOVED all of the activities at the Road Safety Centre.
Then we had lunch in Bonython Park and we played on the most amazing playground. It was so exciting to see so many different pieces of equipment to play on.
We were all really excited to hear that you can visit the Road Safety School on the weekend for free and use the roads, signs and park areas anytime you like. We can’t wait to go back there.
We’d like to say a huge thank you to Mrs Chick for organising our day and to the 3 mums who helped our class – Alison, Candi and Kim. You were all a great help for us.
Here’s some photos of our day!!! Enjoy.
Road Safety Excursion – Part 1 on PhotoPeach
Road Safety Excursion – Part 2 on PhotoPeach
Road Safety Excursion – Part 3 on PhotoPeach
What did you enjoy about our excursion today?
I thought the Road Safety Centre was a great learning opportunity for all the children.
It was good to see you all following the road rules, and being sensible road users!
It was also wonderful to see you having so much fun at the amazing playgrounds!
Thank you all for being so well behaved, and for representing Craigburn Primary School in a positive way!
The Road Safety Centre is fantastic. I’m sure everyone has learnt some really important things about their bike and scooter riding on the roads and being safe.
Didn’t you all have an amazing time at the playground as well. I think we will go back and explore that another time. Its awesome.
Was nice that we also got to see the Lions and Horses from the circus. An unexpected treat.
Thanks Aiden for feeding my afternoon tea apple to one of the horses… It must have been a yummy apple as he slobbered lots of it on you…
You were all so wonderfully behaved. Thanks for allowing me to share in such a fun day. allison
Wow! Looks like a really fun day with heaps of interesting activities.
I think we’ll definitely need to check out that playground at some stage.