Appendix A: Summary of Stories and Road Safety Messages
Appendix A: Summary of Stories and Road Safety Messages
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Ziggy and the Lollipop: The main story covers the family’s journey to school accompanied by Ziggy. This story covers safe walking on the pavement as well as safe road crossing behaviour/use of a lollipop person/crossing patrol officer. |
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Ziggy’s Halloween Wish: The story focusses on the importance of visibility when walking/travelling at night. The story revolves around a night-time journey made at Halloween and the need for pedestrians and road users to make themselves seen to traffic. |
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Ziggy Visits Granny: The story specifically addresses use of size/age appropriate car seats and proper use of seatbelts. The book also focusses on walking in the countryside and the need to face oncoming traffic when walking and standing back when cars pass. There are also messages around holding hands where there is no pavement, finding a safe place to cross and ensuring that you are visible to traffic. |
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Ziggy Goes Zab-a-ding-a-Wheeeee: The book has three main sections: the first introduces the importance of wearing a protective helmet, the second focusses on use of the pedestrian crossings and the final section demonstrates that wearing a helmet allows children to safely enjoy using bikes/scooters. |
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Ziggy’s Sunny Holiday: The story focusses on the dangers of getting out of the car/using the ‘safe side’ and safe behaviours in car parking areas. The initial part of the book also builds logically on the main messages presented in the previous books. A further theme that is introduced is inappropriate driving, and teaching children that not all drivers follow the rules of the road/stop at traffic lights. |
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Ziggy and Maggie Start School: The book does not have a single road safety message, nor does it introduce any ‘new’ road safety messages, but instead reiterates almost all of the learning from previous books in the series. |
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