Elmo Stays Safe
Sesame Street's Elmo and Grover Help Keep Kids Safe In New South Australian Road Safety Program
We were excited to roll out the Elmo Stays Safe road safety education program to all early childhood sites across SA during 2015. The program, developed by Kidsafe in partnership with Sesame Workshop (the non-profit educational organisation behind Sesame Street), and supported by the Motor Accident Commission, Holden, Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure and RAA, teaches pre-school aged children about safe road practices including child restraints, crossing the road, carpark safety, driveway safety and walking down the street.
The program was officially be launched by Minister for Road Safety, the Hon Tony Piccolo MP and Minister for Education and Child Development, the Hon Susan Close MP during Global Road Safety Week – Monday 4th May 2015.
Featuring Elmo, Grover and our favourite friends from Sesame Street, the storybook was written to help educators involve children in learning and discussion about staying safe while on the go. Throughout the storybook, keep an eye out for Crossing Supervisor Grover icons! They appear to indicate learning activities that will reinforce a road safety message on that page. While reading with children and completing the activities on the cards, you can guide children’s learning by helping them to reflect on the importance of certain road safety practices.
The learning opportunities presented in the Elmo Stays Safe resources are designed to link with the philosophy of the National Quality Framework - namely the Early Years Learning Framework and the National Practices for Early Childhood Road Safety Education.
The Elmo Stays Safe resource packs were distributed to 2000 early childhood sites across South Australia.
This program enables children an early, consistent, and unambiguous presentation of road safety messages, and influence their knowledge and attitude toward road safety now and into the future.
Elmo Stays Safe T.V. Community Service Announcement
Storybook, Learning Experiences and Resources
As part of the program, a storybook and range of learning experiences have been developed to reinforce key messages to children and their families on how to be safe in vehicles and around roads, driveways and car parks. You can download these for free below!
Elmo Stays Safe Story BookIpad App and E-Book
