During this week we had a visit from the Road Safety Officials at the centre to talk to our children. The officers got down to children's level to explain to them about Road safety. Children were explained the importance of putting their helmets on while going for a bike ride, scooter ride and on skates to protect their heads because heads are the very important part of our body.Children liked the idea of wearing helmets and they some of them said that they did not wear hats. At their response ,the officer requested them to talk to their parents and teachers about this too.
The second point she talked about was the importance of wearing seat belts and having safe car seats while traveling by cars. She reminded children of simple road rules like not playing on the road or alongside it, walking on the footrpath always, check for driveways fro any reversing cars, not to play around parked cars and to be safe on roads.The teaching fromsuch important people had good influnece on childrens learnings.
The other imporatne discussion she had with the children was crossing roads. The best place to cross is at the pedestrian crossing. She asked the children what was the other name for the crossing and one child said ,white lines and the other child said zebra lines. Childrens attention, and listen skills were admirable.sh the Officer informed children on ways to crosss roads like holding hands of an adult before crossing.This fascinated children and they contributed to her discussion. As she asked them why was it important to hold an adults hand when about to cross, and most children gave the answer and said that they will be knocked down by the cars,and can get hurt and die.
The use of traffic lights on the road was also highlighted on as children were asked lots of question about the use of lights and they had a good knowledge of it.One child said "iknow the lights,red is stop,green is go and orange means go very very slow.The officers wes rather pleased that children paid attention to their environment and community.Here they all sang the traffic light song.
To Further emphasis the points the Officer had many photos that showed the children in cars, on bikes and at crossing.Children had to pick the picture that they think displayed the best road safety rules and they enjoyed explaining them as they were asked individually to explain if they liked the photo .Children were quick in picking out the wrongs and the rights on them.A good teaching strategy was used by the officer .
It was amasing to note how children relate to imporant poeple in the community. They talked about the road safety uniform their were wearing and also related to importance of Police and Road Safety Police vehicles. Children understood that they are there to protect and help them.They paid lots of attention to what the Officers were saying and also felt free to ask questions and give their opinions too.
This lead to lots of learning for children. They participated in a drawing competition ,they drew pictures of road safety and explained their picture stories to the Officers and as a result some of them received prizes of road safety T/shirts. The significance of the presene of imporant people of the community has an inflence on the laerningand development for children and The use of technology here is for the safety of people.This reflects the well being for the children " children experience an environemnt where they are kept safe from harm"( Ministryor Eduation,1996). " the adults raise children's awareness about what is safe and what si harmful and the probable consequences of ceratin actions ".
Such a wonderful learning experience for children as road safety is part of their everyday life. Apart from educating children this can be a good reminder for parents and us teachers as well to include in our teaching.
ReplyDeleteAn excellent drawing above. Children have to understand the importance of road safety. Good to have a road safety staff came in and talked about this with children.
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