Bay of Plenty school road safety stories
Be inspired and gain fresh ideas from other schools about how you can support road and rail safety. Here you'll find examples of schools working through the curriculum, enhancing their ethos and organisation, and building community partnerships.
Search by region to see what the schools in your area, and throughout New Zealand, are doing. You can submit your own stories too.
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Colourful competition reinforces bicycle helmet checks
June 10 2013. A competition for school students to decorate cycle helmets saw its biggest number of entries this year.
http://education.nzta.govt.nz/stories/bay-of-plenty/colourful-competition-reinforces-bicycle-helmet-checks -
View student road safety banners
June 10 2013. Examples of student road safety inquiry and artwork available in a single document.
http://education.nzta.govt.nz/stories/bay-of-plenty/view-student-road-safety-banners -
Road safety messages on parade
Primary students marched through Tauranga in a parade that was the culmination of inquiry projects looking at community road safety.
http://education.nzta.govt.nz/stories/bay-of-plenty/road-safety-messages-on-parade -
“Ata haere” – slowly does it, say kura students
Students create a sign to ensure visitors enter school grounds slowly.
http://education.nzta.govt.nz/stories/bay-of-plenty/ata-haere-slowly-does-it,-say-kura-students -
Travel Safe, Tauranga recently held a Primary Schools Teacher Workshop.
http://education.nzta.govt.nz/stories/bay-of-plenty/travel-safe,-tauranga-recently-held-a-primary-schools-teacher-workshop. -
Lucky winners for cycle helmet designs!
http://education.nzta.govt.nz/stories/bay-of-plenty/lucky-winners-for-cycle-helmet-designs! -
Feet First Day Fairhaven School
http://education.nzta.govt.nz/stories/bay-of-plenty/feet-first-pyjama-day-@fairfield-school -
Katikati School's Walking Song
If your journey’s short you could walk to school, Walking can be really cool.
http://education.nzta.govt.nz/stories/bay-of-plenty/katikati-schools-walkiing-song -
How far have we walked this year?
Gate Pa School, Tauranga operate 7 walking school buses. .
http://education.nzta.govt.nz/stories/bay-of-plenty/how-far-have-we-walked-this-yearv -
Orange Day Parade 2011
Road Safety messages depicted on Orange Day Parade banners.
http://education.nzta.govt.nz/stories/bay-of-plenty/orange-day-parade-2011-a-great-success