School launches road safety DVD

Road safety initiative: Pupils launches DVD to promote road safety in their community.

From City Scene, published on 8 November, 2009.

May Road School in Mt Roskill - a primary school that has been involved in the council's TravelWise school travel plan programme since 2005 - launched a DVD last month to promote road safety in their community.

With 70 per cent of pupils now walking to school, the DVD was created to teach kids how to stay safe as pedestrians. It includes a strong message from kids to drivers, be they parents or other community members, on what they can do to help keep local children safe on their way to and from school.

Pupils at the school researched, scripted, filmed and edited the DVD themselves.

The council, police road safety representatives and an information technology specialist helped to assemble the product.

The DVD is dedicated to a local preschooler who died in a traffic accident in February this year. His family were very supportive of the initiative and attended the launch event, which included a screening and a shared morning tea for the school and wider community.

For more information, including possible ways schools in your community might be able to work on similar projects, visit the Road safety section or phone the council's senior road safety coordinator.