Client: Land Transport NZ
Project: RoadSense – Ata Haere
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I've found Educating NZ both flexible and extremely professional to deal with, in sometimes difficult circumstances. When the RoadSense – Ata Haere programme was launched in late 2001, Educating NZ managed to get it up and running successfully in a very short time.
Michael Cummins, Manager Education, Land Transport Safety Authority
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Objectives:
RoadSense is the road safety education strategy managed by Land Transport New Zealand in partnership with the New Zealand Police. It aims to help reduce the number of children killed and injured on NZ roads, and provides children with the skills to protect themselves as passengers, pedestrians and riders.
RoadSense is targeted at primary and intermediate schools in areas with high rates of child death and injury on the road. At present there are 266 schools involved in the strategy.
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Project update:
2008
Our facilitators are using the new teachers’ handbook to work in schools in Otago, Southland, Manawatu/Wanganui, Taranaki, Hawke's Bay/Gisborne, Waikato, Tauranga, Gisborne, Auckland and Northland.
These RoadSense schools are benefiting from:
- professional support to use the new teachers’ handbook to implement road safety education school-wide
- TRD funding to cover the cost of teacher release and involvement
- the opportunity to be part of a road safety education strategy for both the school and the wider community.
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Client background:
Land Transport New Zealand (Land Transport NZ) is a Crown entity formed to promote land transport sustainability and safety, and allocate government funding for land transport.
The Youth Education Service of New Zealand Police promotes individual safety to young people, families, teachers and school communities to help create safer communities. Police Education Officers are working in partnership with teachers in the classroom to achieve this goal.Top
Archive:
2007 (Feb–June)
Educating NZ worked to redevelop the RoadSense strategy and to revise the approach to professional support for schools. This involved developing/upgrading a range of resources, including a teachers’ handbook and CD-ROM, to be incorporated into classroom teachers’ learning programmes.
From July 2007 to December 2008, the focus was on the implementation of the redeveloped strategy, based on the new teachers’ handbook. This was delivered nationwide by Educating NZ facilitators.2006–2007
The strategy was trialled in 150 schools in the following regions: Otago, Southland, Manawatu/Wanganui, Taranaki, Hawke's Bay/Gisborne, Waikato, Auckland and Northland, to determine the best ways to integrate and sustain road safety education in NZ primary schools. These schools trialled various learning approaches and provided feedback and information that assisted in shaping the project.
2006 (Dec)
Educating NZ was awarded a contract to redevelop and deliver RoadSense for the next three years, and to continue building teacher capability in road safety education in NZ primary schools (years 1–8).
2002–2006
Educating NZ worked in over 1000 primary and intermediate schools to train teachers to add road safety education into their school curriculum and teaching and learning programmes.