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During session A there were two separate activities running.

JRSOs and their adult helper were given a tour around South Ayrshire’s Road Safety Glow Group, after which they were then asked to take part in a specially designed web quest relating to Road Safety. For this the pupils navigated through Glow and various other websites such as the new JRSO page and Tales of the Road.

What is a web quest? A web quest is a task which asks the pupils to use the world wide web to learn about a specific  topic and then complete questions on it.

JRSOs along with the help of their adult supervisor were given the theme of “Be Bright, Be Seen” along with the new Tales of the Road Poster and were asked to complete one of the following tasks.

Design a t-shirt using a range of bright fabrics and materials provided.

Or

Design a notice board.

Everyone worked really hard and the JRSO’s came up with some great works of art, all of which were taken back to their school at the end of the day.

The job of JRSO is very important and we rely on all our JRSOs to help us get the messages of Road Safety across to their fellow pupils and even members of the community out with the school. There are lots of ways to do this but it is important that our JRSOs are confident with speaking and presenting to others.

We thought we would help out the JRSOs and give them the opportunity to expand on all their great skills and learn a bit more about presenting, through a drama workshop and role play.  This is an additional way of getting the road safety message across at school assemblies rather than just speaking.

JRSOs were given a short story relating to Road Safety taken from the Streetsense assembly pack and they were asked to come up with an ending of their own. They had no props other than the use of drawing materials such as pens and paper. Some wonderful works of art!  They were given time to put their ideas on paper and then practice their play.  After 20 minutes they all had the opportunity to “perform” their play in front of the other schools in their group.

This was enjoyed greatly by all, and we were treated to some master class performances by some possible future Oscar winning  pupils!

Streetsense Story  - My Kid Sister’s A Menace!

Older brother narrates the story of his annoying sister who is always hanging around and getting in the way. He even has to take her to school and is getting really fed up and embarrassed by the way she acts. He plans to lose her on the way to school tomorrow so that he can walk with his pals.

SCENE

Older brother or sister in bedroom writing in diary.

“Dear Diary, what a day it’s been! If I have to take my kid sister to school again I’m going to die of shame!  I can’t believe how embarrassing she is. Just because she walks to school with me, she thinks she can be one of my gang – I don’t think so!  She interrupts all the time and tells stupid stories.  Tomorrow I’m going to leave my lunch box at home and get her to run back for it. That’ll get rid of her for a while!”

Forehill Primary were  part of a Road Safety Scotland focus group working with website developers, One O'clock Gun and were included in a DVD highlighting the great job JRSOs do and what it’s like to be a JRSO.

Barr Primary made a tree out of various materials and designed it with leaves and ladybirds to represent the different travel modes of their pupils.

Red Ladybirds represented – Car Travel

Orange Ladybirds represented – Bus/Taxi/Car Sharing/Park & Stride

Green Ladybirds represented – Walking/Cycling/Scooter/skates or any other form of active travel.