Pedestrian safety

The Safety Education Team is working towards reducing child pedestrian casualties through a series of education, training and publicity initiatives. We visit nursery schools and playgroups, and have training available in all borough schools for children from Reception to Year 3.

Nurseries and pre-schools

Through role-play and story telling pre-school age children learn the safety basics – holding hands with a grown up, stopping, looking and listening for traffic.
A lollipop person and police officer can help the children across the road on the zebra crossing.

Key Stage One

All borough schools now have a “Streetfeet”road safety resource for use with infant aged children.This fun activity stresses the importance of finding and using safe places to cross the road such as pelican and zebra crossings, and working out safe routes to and from school.This project is funded by Transport for London.

Staying Alive pedestrian training

In year 3 children can take part in the “Staying Alive” pedestrian training scheme. This is a practical road side training course which encourages children to think about the dangers of traffic; to understand the hazards and learn to deal with them and to plan routes that make use of crossing facilities where they are available. This project has been running for several years and to date over 1200 children have been trained.

These children are working out the best strategy for dealing with potentially dangerous situations - near to parked cars and at a junction.