Transitioning to Secondary School

Teaching length: 11-20 minutes

Transitioning to Secondary School

Road casualty data shows that the number of child pedestrian casualties doubles between the ages of 9 and 11, with incidents more likely to happen during drop-off and pick up times. 

This free, printable activity sheet helps parents prepare their children for more independent travel, especially as they start thinking about the move to secondary school. The sheet includes simple tips for parents to share on practice journeys and an interactive Safe Adventures quiz for children. 

Click on the icons above to download the activity sheet.

We’ve also teamed up with The National College to launch a new guide for parents and educators, designed to help children build essential road safety skills as they gain independence. Get the resource here.

Our Tales of the Road resource remains a key tool for empowering children with the knowledge to stay safe and is especially useful as they transition to more independent travel. A print-friendly version of the booklet is also available, condensed for easy use but packed with the same helpful advice and information. 

For more information on supporting children’s road safety as they move to secondary school, visit our Safe Adventures page.  

In this lesson students will learn the importance of speaking up in potentially dangerous situations.

Students will have informal scripts to help them develop confidence, so that they know what to say to challenge people’s attitudes and behaviours.

This is lesson plan 1.

Learning Objectives

  1. I know my responsibilities as a pedestrian, a passenger and a future driver and can manage difficult situations with my peers
  2. I know about issues affecting young drivers – such as peer pressure, speeding, seat belts, inexperience and over confidence
  3. I have the communication skills that allow me to speak up in potentially dangerous and difficult road safety scenarios to influence a safer outcome

This pack contains everything you need for lesson plan 1, Speak up. Please note that interactive slides are not currently available.

Students will understand  the benefits of sustainable travel, alongside the ways of how to do so safely. Many students will have thought about how they can improve their travel, to make it more sustainable to benefitt them, their families and their local communities.

Students will also work on school campaigns to encourage others to make more sustainable choices about travelling to and from school.

This is lesson plan 6.

Learning Objectives

1. I know how to travel safely independently and understand the benefits of sustainable travel.

This pack contains everything you need for lesson plan 6, Small changes.

Safer journeys anthem

In this lesson, school children learn the Safer Journeys anthem.

To download, click here which will take you to Vimeo’s website. From there, simply click on the ‘Download’ button.

Use these resources to teach pupils the song:

The Safer Journey anthem is also available with Welsh subtitles this is shown below. If you wish to download this version, click here again this will take you to Vimeo’s website. From, there simply click on the “Download” button.