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Road safety charity urges Primary Schools to join Brake’s Giant Walk in 2015
Brake, the road safety charity, is encouraging teachers to register for Brake’s Giant Walk, to promote the benefits of walking to school and to help teach road safety. This annual event takes place on Wednesday 10 June 2015, and every year sees tens of thousands of kids learning about road safety in their classroom, promoting the benefits of safe walking and cycling to school, and walking for safer roads in their community.
Brake’s Giant Walk involves children across the UK taking part in a walk from their school gates to call for safer roads around their school and to promote safe walking and cycling. The event is a great focal point for schools to teach road safety in class using resources and advice from Brake – road safety can be used to teach lessons on a range of subjects. Schools can use their walk to call on drivers to slow down in their community or call for other local road safety measures. The project also raises funds for Brake's work to improve road safety and care for families devastated by a death or injury on roads, because most schools fundraise on the day.
Brake’s Giant Walk empowers children and schools to make their communities safer, healthier, and greener, while preventing devastating child casualties.
Three giant reasons for schools to register today:
- Learning about road safety: schools can use the event as a focal point for running lessons about road safety. Children could learn about travel to school around the world in geography, find out about the forces in road crashes in science, or learn about travel through the ages in history. Brake provides resources advice and guidance to help teachers plan lessons around their Giant Walk.
- Slow down drivers and get kids walking: Brake’s Giant Walk can be used to help schools call for safer roads in their community. The walk allows children to call for drivers to slow down and look out for kidspaign. Brake can help schools get publicity through local media, and promote the event in their newsletter or website, to get the road safety message out.
- Help bereaved and injured families: Children can be sponsored by family and friends to take part, or schools can run other fundraising events with advice from Brake, helping Brake campaign for road safety and support families bereaved and injured by road crashes.
Julie Townsend, Brake deputy chief executive, says: “Brake’s Giant Walk is a great way for schools to call for safer roads in their community for children to be able to walk or cycle without fear or threat from traffic. Every year as part of this great event schools use resources and support from Brake to run fantastic lessons across a variety of subjects around the theme of road safety and active travel. It’s a chance to teach children about road safety and why walking is healthy and eco-friendly, and also to call on local drivers to make a big difference by slowing down to protect children on foot and bike. We’re urging schools to sign up now to take full advantage of the resources and support Brake offers to help schools get involved.”
Brake is urging primary schools to register to take part in this great event.
To register, click here