Wellbeing Report 

Year 10 Road Safety Excursion

On Wednesday 4 December, all Year 10 students will be participating in the RYDA Road Safety Education Program. This will take place at Sandown Park Greyhound Racing Facility.

Many of our students will soon be learner drivers, or passengers in a car with newly licensed drivers, so thinking about individual behaviour in cars from both a driver and a passenger’s perspective is timely.

RYDA gives students an extensive introduction to road safety across a number of topics from understanding how personality impacts risk to buying and maintaining a safe car.

In the RYDA workshop, students work with their peers to come up with strategies to be better prepared and make good decisions, both as drivers and as highly influential passengers. These resources have been developed to help you support your child as they navigate through a time in their lives when they are at increased risk of injury.

The RYDA program is a full day of workshops, with highly engaging practical demonstrations, real life narratives, video quizzes and interactive role play. The program takes students on a journey from understanding and identifying crash factors, to appreciating how personal factors affect risk, developing personal strategies and plans and finally the motivation to approach driving as a social responsibility and recognise protective measures such as the graduated licensing and safe system approaches.

You can find more information in this brochure, or on their website https://rse.org.au/

Ms Jackie Kol

Director of Wellbeing