Thursday 4 July 2019

Road Safety walk for Class LH


Class LH went for Road Safety walk around Framlingham today.  As part of our ‘Bright Lights, Big City’ topic, we also compared the signs, lampposts and post boxes to some that we had seen at the East Anglian Transport Museum on our school trip.  

There were some houses that reminded us of the houses in the ‘Great Fire of London’ with the wooden beams and white painted fronts.  We talked about how London would have been full of similar houses before the fire.  At the top of Double Street,  we noted the VR on the letter box and were able to compare this to the letter box on the Market hill with EIIR on it.


Back to the Road Safety, we identified good places to cross and also talked about places which were not safe to cross.  We found the zebra crossing and identified the flashing beacon lights and the tactile paving on each side.  We spotted double yellow lines, single white lines and talked about the road signs and how they have changed from the 'olden' days ie they were much bigger and used colour.

On Double Street, we were able to practise crossing the road in pairs on our own.   When we finally arrived back on New Road, we then crossed this on our own using the ‘Stop, Look. Listen, Stay Alive’ slogan to remind us what to do.  This was a little bit trickier as it was busier but we used our ears carefully to listen for oncoming traffic and were all able to cross the road safely.