Activity 2: Is it safe?
Time:
10-15 minutes
Resources:
- None
Circle time can be used to emphasise key safety messages about playing more safely near traffic:
- Ask pupils to sit in a circle. Name an outdoor game or fun activity that children play and ask the class to take it in turns to add to the list. This could include playing in a park, playing football, walking a dog, skating etc.
- Suggest a game or outdoor play activity and a place it could be played. Pupils respond with thumbs up or down to show whether this is a good place for that activity or not. Here are some suggestions:
- Playing football in a car park.
- Playing with toys in your back garden.
- Walking a dog through some woods.
- Playing catch on a beach.
- Skating on the pavement.
- Riding a scooter outside some shops.
- Pushing a bike along a footpath.
- Having running races in a park.
- Going on swings in a playground.
- Bouncing a ball in a front garden.
- Rollerblading on the road.
- Ask children to say what they should do in certain situations:
- If a ball rolls onto a road (ask an adult you know to get it).
- How they can stay safer with a scooter near traffic (carry it).
- If a dog runs across a road (tell an adult you know).
- If the park or play area where you are playing frisbee is near busy traffic (move as far away from the traffic as you can).
