Over to You - Your Choice road safety programme launches
Are you looking for an engaging way to teach road safety?
Introducing Over to You - Your Choice (O2U), a comprehensive road safety program for secondary school students of all ages.
Why choose O2U?
O2U empowers students to make informed, safe choices about road safety through engaging drama activities, practical lessons, and interactive scenarios. Focusing on behaviour change and improving capability, we help students develop lifelong road safety skills. This resource also links to areas of the PSHE curriculum supporting schools to achieve some of their PSHE outcomes.
Key focus areas
- Peer Pressure: Promoting positive peer interactions.
- Seatbelt and In-Car Safety: Emphasising seatbelt use.
- Distraction from mobile phone use: Highlighting the importance of staying focussed.
- Journey Planning: Teaching safe, efficient journey planning.
- Speed and Safe Control of Vehicles: Educating on the risks of speeding.
- Passenger Safety: Promoting safe passenger behaviour.
- Active Travel: Highlighting the health benefits of walking, wheeling, and cycling.
- Highway Code and Public Transport: Introducing the Highway Code and safe use of public transport.
Free resource pack
The O2U resource pack is free for secondary schools and integrates easily into the curriculum in-particular PSHE lessons.
Incentives for engagement
Participating schools can win exciting prizes * like bike lights and learning-to-drive starter kits.
Each term, schools who can demonstrate use of this resource by completing the feedback form included in the pack, will be entered into a prize draw to win an Active Travel Pack worth £50.
Positive feedback from students and educators highlights increased confidence in making safe choices and the effectiveness of interactive activities.
Join us in making a difference!
Help us create a safer environment for young people by integrating the Over to You - Your Choice intervention into your curriculum to promote a culture of safety and responsibility.
Request your free Over to you - Your Choice resources pack, by emailing roadsafety@norfolk.gov.uk.