Info for Teachers

Children are one of the most vulnerable groups on the road. MAC supports some key road safety programs in schools to educate students about risks and to help them make safe choices while on the road as a driver, passenger, cyclist or pedestrian.

Schools can also incorporate road safety into the curriculum by including relevant topics in Maths, English, Science and Drama classes, just to name a few . This can start from the junior primary years through to year 12.

Road safety programs in schools

MAC currently sponsors the SA Police Road Safety Education program that presents sessions in schools across the state. The program aims to shift attitudes and raise awareness to change road safety behaviour, particularly amongst novice drivers.

SA Police offer sessions that target primary school students (school monitor training, bicycle education) and high school students (learner and youth driver awareness and international students driver education).

For more information on SAPOL’s Road Safety Education Program or to make a booking, please visit the SAPOL website.

Birdwood High School

In recent years MAC supported the development of a road safety “blueprint” developed by Birdwood High School. Tragically, Birdwood High School has lost a former or current student to a road crash each year.

Birdwood sought to make road safety a key focus of the school and has embedded Road Safety across the curriculum in a range of subject areas. For further information about Birdwood’s road safety program please click here.

Road safety topics in the classroom

There are opportunities to include road safety topics in a range of subject areas. For example, graphing and interpreting speed data in mathematics classes or creative writing exercises about a peer pressure situation or conducting debates on p-plate restrictions in English classes. Further examples are available on the Birdwood High School Road Safety Education website.