Education
Road Safety Education for All Ages
We deliver interactive and age-appropriate education for the residents of Bedfordshire, and all who travel within our highway networks.
Our interventions aim to reduce casualties on our roads by looking at ways to increase active travel across the county, engaging with residents, elected members, community groups.
The majority of our work involves delivering different road safety sessions to schools and other educational settings. However we also reach out to broader road user groups.
Virtual Reality
Using virtual reality (VR) headsets, we can create interactive and engaging sessions on any aspect of road safety. Our videos include pedestrian, motorcycling, and driving safety.
Incorporating a fun VR session with a factual presentation gives us more opportunity to get the students to really understand their choices and consequences when dealing with the roads.
We also use VR for education with the Vision Van.
Junior Road Safety Officers (JRSO’s)
We work with schools to recruit young students as JRSO’s. These young officers encourage and promote good road safety practices. It helps them gain confidence whilst modelling best practice for their peers.
We stage competitions, assemblies, and many other ideas created by the pupils involved in Junior Road Safety. It is exciting and empowering for these students, whilst also working towards making behavioural changes amongst their classmates, parents, and teachers.
Modeshift STARS
Modeshift STARS is the Centre of Excellence for the delivery of Effective Travel Plans in Education, Business and Community settings.
The STARS Education scheme recognises schools and other educational establishments that have shown excellence in supporting cycling, walking and other forms of sustainable and active travel.
Launched in 2008, the STARS Education scheme is supported by the Department for Transport and has seen over 1,400 schools in England achieve accreditation since its inception. In the Autumn and Spring of each year, schools, local authorities and key partners come together for the National STARS School Travel Awards which recognise the outstanding schools from each local authority.
