Road Safety

At our school, we are surrounded by busy, inner-city roads and intersections. As we await the installation of our new school crossings by the Newcastle City Council, we continue to remind our students that crossing the roads near the school must be done so extremely carefully.

It is our collective responsibility to continually teach our kids about the safe use of our roads.  We believe it is important to share road safety information with parents and carers, so you can reinforce safe behaviours when out and about with your children and reinforce the messages we teach at school about safety.

Parents and carers are a child's first teacher and are responsible for modelling safe road-user behaviours, as children naturally imitate the adults around them. As such, we ask that all parents drive safely and park in designated areas that are legal to support the safety of our students and community. The median strip of Parkway Avenue is a no-parking area and we remind the community not to drive on this area.

We all need to reinforce and practice the following behaviours:

• using safe travel routes
• modelling how to be a safe road user
• following road rules and the road signs
• creating safe environments
• assisting students to become independent travellers.

Whether your child walks, rides a vehicle, travels by car or catches a bus, train, ferry or tram – please ensure you are discussing safe travel to and from school regularly.  We thank our P&C for their on-going advocacy to have pedestrian crossings installed around our school, with details of this campaign found on our website HERE.  We also send you our gratitude for your support in this collective responsibility to reinforce safe travel.

Useful links:

• Definitions of pedestrian crossings (Transport for NSW)
• Traffic signs (Transport for NSW)
• Demerit points (Transport for NSW)
• Top 10 misunderstood road rules in NSW (Transport for NSW)