Road Safety

School Educational Project

Abstract
The World Health Organization in the year of 2013,
reported 186,300 death of pupils under eighteen.
This number is being repeated almost every year.
In Europe, road accidents are amongst the top five
causes of death for kids over five and the primary
cause between the 15 17 year olds.
In the European Union sector those numbers they
become less year by year and European Union in now
the safest sector universally on road safety
issues.
In Cyprus, road deaths amongst kids have been
increased according to the statistical data that were
collected by the Traffic Department Police in Cyprus
in the last few years (Police of Cyprus, 2015).
WHY?????
Aim of project
The European Union is a huge success story. Road
deaths between youngsters have been reduced by
more than 30% between any other age group in the
last twenty years and under fifteens are nowadays
by far the safest road user group in The European
Union (European Commission, 2015).
The aims of this project was to:
Offer public awareness to pupils on road safety issues
Improve of pupils attitudes, knowledge and behaviour on
road safety issues and
Learn how to avoid vehicle pedestrian collisions as
road users or pedestrians.
Introduction
Based on statistics by the ministry
of Ministry of Justice and Public
Order we were a school of high risk
in traffic delinquency.
The program, called , was
being run in 7 different schools
around Cyprus with the
collaboration of Ministry of
Education, through the field of
Home Economics.
Home Economics
Another name being used for this
field is Family and Consumer
Sciences since it covers subjects
that have to do with economics and
management of the home and
community (IFHE, 2015).
This sector deals with the issues
that involve individuals, families and
communities and the environment in
which they exist.
Programme
It lasted 12 months ( January 2015 December
2015) and about 250 pupils took part.
Road safety learning is a life-long development from
primary to secondary school, so that protection
becomes well-established as part of the tradition
and practice of our kids.
Training pupils to distinguish and understand audio
and visual clues is vital.
As these types of skills are developed, pupils become
more conscious of applicable signs and appraise
traffic situations more capably. Students are not
yet aware of the thought of danger and must be
taught to comprehend the risks inherent in the road
society. A realistic experience is essential to enable
road safety skills to develop.
The road users needed to develop:
Familiarization and understanding of
road traffic
Behaviour skills essential to survive in
traffic
An understanding of their own
responsibilities for keeping themselves
safe
Awareness of the cause and effects
of road accidents
A sensible attitude regarding their
own safety and the safety of others
Skills to be established:
Recognition of the presence of traffic
Optical timing judgement
Coordination of information from
different directions
Coordination of perception and action
Cognitive ability to assess the traffic
situation
Methods of internalizing traffic
negotiation
 ACTIONS TAKEN TO
IMPROVE OUR SCHOOL
Theory of practise
The students had four workshops in order to
learn the theory behind road safety
Two sessions outside school (on the road) to
identify sensible and insensible attitudes
regarding their own road safety and the road
safety of others.
Pupils should experience the world beyond the
classroom as a vital part of personal and
learning development, whatever their ability,
circumstances or age.
After the theory they had to come up with
ideas that could help their school/community
to become a safer place for them and their
families.
Seminars given by The Police
Presentation by Mr. Kyriako Panteli,
who is the person in charge for
Road Safety Issues in the district
of Larnaca.
Workshop seminars by the
Organization of Reaction
Participated in the program
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Meeting with the major of Larnaca
Had a meeting with the major of
Larnaca, Mr. Andrea Louroutziate
and discussed the issues concerning
our school. The students presented
him with a short movie maker film
pointing out the problems we are
facing as a school.

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 By Benjamin Franklin

TELL ME AND I FORGET,

TEACH ME AND I MAY REMEMBER,
INVOLVE ME AND I LEARN.
Sponsors of the project
We had the cooperation of