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.
