Children at Wester Coates Nursery School learned how to Go Safe with Ziggy on Thursday.
The Road Safety Scotland character paid them a visit to explain how important it is to stay safe on the city’s roads.
This is part of a road safety tour of Early Learning & Childcare Centres (ELCs) in Scotland which will teach young children the skills, knowledge and attitudes to help keep them safe both now and as they grown older.
Together with Ziggy – an alien visiting Earth to learn about road safety – children enjoyed an interactive performance which brings to life road safety messages combining song, role play and crafts.
The tour uses many immersive learning activity stations, and card games, and then tested children on their understanding of road safety symbols, noises they would hear on the roads, and steps to take to cross the road safely.
Ziggy uses a playmat featuring the layout of a town with traffic lights and a zebra crossing to emphasise and teach road safety skills through imaginative play.
Alison Hawkins, Head at Wester Coates Nursery school, said: “The children were very delighted to welcome Ziggy to Wester Coates Nursery School. Visits such as these reinforce our own road safety programme, strengthening the important road safety messages we teach and practice. Having fun with Ziggy was a great reminder about safety.”
Debbie Nicol, Assistant Director, Road Safety Scotland, said: “It is important that children are immersed in positive road safety attitudes from a young age, both in the classroom and at home, and we know that early experiences shape children’s future behaviour.
“Ziggy is a fun character with an important message and visits like these help create lasting memories about road safety.”
The Ziggy tour will include visits to Early Learning & Childcare Centres across Glasgow, Edinburgh, Fife, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire, South Ayrshire, East Ayrshire, Dundee and Renfrewshire.
Written by children’s author Lynda Kennedy and illustrated by Lynn Taylor, the Go Safe with Ziggy books are a free resource available to all Early Learning and Childcare centres and Primary 1 classes in Scotland, and parents, carers and teachers have access to online resources and activity ideas. The Ziggy series is also available in Scots and Gaelic.
Books can be ordered for free on roadsafety.scot/ziggy-order
For more information about Go Safe with Ziggy, click here
