Step Up To Travel Safely
Making the transition from primary to secondary school can be a challenging time for children, with lots of new things to think about and learn. West Yorkshire Transport
Executive wanted to provide help at this time and, following a competitive tender, chose Innovate Educate to produce a CD-Rom resource and teachers’ notes.

Called Step Up, the resource focuses on travel safety messages for 10 year olds and involves three main areas:

• Planning and preparing for journeys
• Staying safe on the journey
• Transport choices.

Schools use the resource’s core activities in the summer term, either during a single day or over a series of shorter sessions. Step Up also offers spin off ideas for teachers to stimulate further work.

Designed to appeal to different learning styles and abilities, the activities are varied and include:

• Computer-based activities, including web access
• Worksheets
• Map work
• Stimulus for creative work, including drama, dance, music and writing
• Games, challenges and puzzles
• A simple competition that synthesises the three elements of the resource.

As well as Innovate Educate’s extensive knowledge in producing safety materials for children, Step Up’s success can also be attributed to IE’s extensive research into the transition issues faced by pupils making the step from primary to high school.

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