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Kerbcraft

Kerbcraft teaches children aged from 5-7 how to be safer pedestrians by taking them onto real roads and showing them how the right decision-making and behaviour can really help them to keep safe. The children are taken out of school by trained volunteers, in groups of no more than three, to learn three mail skills:

1. Choosing Safe Places and Routes to Cross the Road- Children are helped to recognise dangers and hazards and identify alternative crossing places.
2. Crossing Safely at Parked Cars- Children are taught how to use a safe strategy for crossing near parked cars- when avoiding them is impossible.
3. Crossing Safely Near Junctions- Children are introduced to the problems of simple and complex junctions, and taughta strategy for looking systematically in all directions.

Young children should always be accompanied by a responsible adult when near the road- even after training. Your encouragement of these road safety skills will help your child to regularly practice them.