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Brake's early years road safety teaching guide

Simply by doing the fun and educational things in this guide, you can help stop deaths of children. The sooner you start, the better ?” we suggest teaching from the age of 2 ½. Teaching road safety is an active, fun and stimulating thing to do, and children LOVE toy vehicles, fire engines, and bicycles so they’re keen to learn more about them. This guide also helps you meet Foundation learning requirements! By the time you have worked through this guide you will have:

  • Created a fabulous road safety display for your wall, developing motor and creative skills
  • Taught key words, helping their communication and language skills
  • Helped develop an understanding of hard and soft, fast and slow, near and far, and the mechanics of vehicles ?” all great science and technology topics
  • Helped them understand more about the world around them, the difference between dangerous and safe, and about vehicles
  • Helped them to look after themselves with the help of their carers, helping their personal, social and emotional development

Now use the below three links to read the guide!

  1. Teach that traffic is dangerous
  2. Teach to always hold hands
  3. Teach to always buckle up
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