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Just a Stone's Throw…

A teaching pack to help children understand the dangers of dropping objects on to the motorway has been developed by the Highways Agency, in partnership with its agent Mouchel Parkman, RoSPA, Surrey Police, Surrey County Council and the Fire Service

The pack, "Just a Stone's Throw…" is aimed at 10 and 11 year olds and is designed for use at special safety events such as Junior Citizens, Danger Rangers and other LASER schemes. These events use realistic settings where children can learn about keeping safe and preventing accidents in a safe environment. Youngsters work with safety experts, such as road safety and fire safety officers, who help them to think about how they would behave in risky situations in a controlled and supervised way.

The teaching pack warns that even the lightest/smallest object dropped or thrown from a height could cause severe damage if it were to hit a vehicle at speed. Children can participate in pre session lessons and there are activities to be used in the classroom after the event has taken place.

We hope this innovative education initiative will help children to understand the implications of objects being thrown onto motorways and other main roads.

Background

LASER (Learning About Safety by Experiencing Risk) schemes have been running in England since the mid 1980's. These schemes target 10-11year olds and there are approx 200 schemes registered with RoSPA. LASER schemes enable children to experience risk in managed situations where they can practice their safety skills. These schemes encourage good citizenship and a sense of community responsibility.

Use the links below to download the main teacher's pack along with the rest of the resources available for this training.

For the full pack you will need these PDF files:

• Teacher's Notes (1028KB PDF)
• Cards 1-7 (413 KB PDF)
• Cards 8-14 (1780KB PDF)
• Smash/Dents Splats (46KB PDF)
• Questionnaire (164KB PDF)
  or alternaltively submit the online version of the questionnaire

The KS2 pack - "Just A Stones Throw" will be available on CD-Rom later this year.

If you have any comments/questions on this then please contact:

Felicity Drewett
Federated House
London Road, Dorking
Surrey, RH4 1SZ

LARSOA is a national road safety organisation that represents Road Safety Officers (RSOs) employed in local government across the UK. It supports RSOs in fulfilling their statutory role - to reduce the number and severity of road accidents through education, training and publicity policies and programmes.