Longford County Childcare Committee continues to promote road safety with Early Years Services in the County this October.
Beep Beep Day
National “Beep Beep Day” takes place on Friday 7th October 2016 during Irish Road Safety Week. Traffic lights, hi-visibility jackets, stop signs along with road safety songs and games will be the order of the day.
Why is it important?
We know that children learn good habits from a young age and that it’s never too early to start teaching children how to be safe on our roads. So, in the lead up to ‘Beep Beep Day’ early years services across the county will be implementing a comprehensive integrated road safety education programme called ‘Simon and Friends’. The resource contains four individual storybooks with stories and characters that promote age appropriate road safety messages amongst preschool children. It focuses on road safety themes such as holding hands, stopping, looking and listening and setting a good example in an effort to make young road users aware of their safety when using the roads. This enables these important messages to be learnt in a child-friendly way that is easy to understand and interesting for children.
It’s important also for parents to reinforce these messages at home so be sure to tell parents at the end of the day what road safety theme you are currently working on.
Early Years Road Safety Activities
Activities to do in the lead up to ‘Beep Beep Day’
- Arts & crafts – traffic lights/stop signs
- Story time – don’t forget to highlight new vocabulary
- Visit from the local Gardai
- Outdoor play – building road/traffic lights/zebra crossings
- Songs
Traffic Light song
(to the tune of twinkle twinkle)
Twinkle, twinkle traffic light,
Round the corner shining bright,
Red means stop,
Green means go,
Yellow means very, very slow,
Twinkle, twinkle traffic light,
Round the corner shining bright.
Do you have any road safety activities you would like to share?
For further information on road safety tips for kids and parents visit www.rsa.ie
