Road Safety Week – Best 2024 ideas and resources
Educate children about staying safe on our roads during this annual event in November…
- by Teachwire
Find out everything you need to know about Road Safety Week, including key dates, engaging resources and activity ideas for your classroom…
When is Road Safety Week?
Road Safety Week 2024 takes place between 17th-23rd November.
What is Road Safety Week?
Every day, five people die on roads. Road Safety Week is an annual campaign run by the charity Brake. Every year, thousands of schools take part to share important safety messages, remember people affected by road death and injury, and raise funds for the charity.
What is the theme for 2024?
The theme for 2024 is ‘After the crash, every road victim counts’. The focus is on raising awareness of the devastating toll of road crashes, and celebrating the work of those who support families after a road death or serious injury.
Road Safety Week resources and ideas
Official resources
The Brake website has loads of great teaching resources to help you engage children. Browse assemblies, lesson plans, factsheets, games and activity sheets.
Help children understand why safe speeds are so vital for safe and healthy journeys. Register for a Road Safety Week action pack, full of ideas and activities for schools.
Printable road templates
This free cut-out road template pack is a great way to teach shape recognition and motor skills. It can also serve as a valuable tool for teaching essential lessons about road safety.
Road safety education pack
The award-winning EASST Road Safety Education Pack contains engaging activities to introduce road safety messages to kids.
Take part in a Beep Beep! Day
Beep Beep! Day is a special aimed at schools and nurseries to teach important safety basics to very young children. The next one takes place in March 2025.
Host a Brake Kids Walk
Last year, more than 79,000 children took part in a Brake Kids Walk, calling for their right to make safe and healthy journeys without fear or threat from traffic. The next one takes place on 11th June 2025.
Road safety school trips
SafetyWorks! in Newcastle is a fully interactive learning environment that aims to teach children about health and safety. A popular option is its road safety day. Here, pupils will talk through many different safety precautions, as well as discussing more complex topics like drink-driving.
Lifeskills Learning for Living Centre in Bristol uses realistic scenarios to allow visitors to experience difficult and dangerous situations in a safe environment. One of the topics it covers is staying safe on the roads.
Browse resources for Child Safety Week.
