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Road safety a priority for preschoolers!
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By Michelle Crean
Within the surreal year of 2020, the children of Scallywags Preschool are keeping the normality going as they learned to stay safe recently during Road Safety Week.
From making their own upcycled cars from cardboard boxes, to stacking tyres and crossing roads, another bunch of Scallywags are safe and seen.
"We have been practicing road safety and Beep Beep Day for 10 years now," Patricia Quigley from Scallywags Preschool told the Killarney Advertiser.
"It's important for young children to understand that just by 'Stop, Look, Listen', and holding hands that they have the ability to aid their own safety. Being rural, the children learn through actually being taken on the road with no footpaths and how to be attentive to what is happening around them. But the highlight is often when a passing motorist gives an encouraging hoot of the horn, especially if they are driving a big truck!"
Throughout the years, past parents love to see the preschool continuing the hands-on skills their own children learnt in Scallywags, she added.
"Wearing a helmet when on anything with wheels is another message that is part of our road safety and we practice that in our outdoor area. We relate the whole week to learning through play, with the children painting their own zebra crossing, making their own mini traffic lights, and upcycling some cardboard boxes into cars. There were a lot of shouts of "stop" and "go" all at the same time, and very, very young recruits of the guards directing traffic, but it all flowed better than a Bank Holiday in Killarney!"
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