Term 3 Number 79 SDERA August 2016 NEWS Positive Schools Award winner! RESILIENCE IN THE CLASSROOM NEW ONLINE DRUG EDUCATION KIT HOW CANNABIS USE NOW MAY AFFECT OUR FUTURE GeneraTIONS ROAD SAFETY COMMIssION COMMUNITY GranTS AVAILABLE FOR SCHOOLS Front EDITORIAL cover footpaths in Western Australia. story The previous rules only permitted I have attended several sessions with people under the age of 12 to SDERA and I always leave feeling revived and ride on footpaths. Cycling groups required to prove that they are believe the changes will give less motivated. The professional learning allows all staff capable of cycling safely. Traffic “ confident and less experienced to have a comprehensive understanding and develop education lessons continue into riders the opportunity to ride secondary school. more and avoid busy roads where common language associated with resilience education. of cycling is often put down to There are several similarities no cycling facilities are provided. it being a cheap, convenient and between the Amsterdam road While the aim of the new rule is healthy mode of transport which safety education model and the is made easier by the city’s focused on safety for cyclists, Award-winning road safety education programs we need to continue to include 500km network of cycle paths offered by SDERA with funding cycling safety education in and flat landscape. provided by the Road Safety our health programs. I would teacher promotes Commission. While sitting back watching this encourage schools to try some bike dominated city I watched Smart Steps, our early childhood of the interactive bicycle safety how it all works! Cyclists, program is about children, parents, activities with their students using resilience in the Dear readers, pedestrians and motor vehicles carers and early childhood Smart Steps or Challenges and all share the road and paths educators working together Choices and to come along to a Last year I spent some time responsibly and effectively. SDERA professional development classroom travelling around Europe. One to guide children’s learning in Cyclists are allowed to cycle workshop – Safer Kids, Safer Teens of the places I visited was being and becoming safe and SDERA was delighted to find that Rachael was nominated for the on roads in Amsterdam with a or Keys for Life. Amsterdam which is well known independent road users. It focuses Rachael Robertson, one our former award by deputy principal Tom 30km/h speed limit, which is on safe cycling under supervision for many things including its To find out how much you know participants, had won the 2016 Hills. “Rachael organised a Grow around 90% of all roads, and on of a parent or carer and also safe narrow and decorative houses, about the cycling road rules in WA Positive Teacher of the Year award Your Mind Day at our school the dedicated cycle paths which walking and passenger travel. elaborate canal system and run alongside the majority of you might like to try answering at the recent Positive Schools after seeing the success Geelong coffee shops that shouldn’t be roads with a 50km/h speed limit. Road safety education continues these quiz questions. conference. Grammar had experienced. The day included exercise, inspiration, confused with cafes (that’s for If there isn’t a separate cycle into the primary years with our Rachael, a Year 2 teacher at North 1. Are cyclists permitted to ride mindfulness and fun. It was another editorial). path, cycle lanes are marked Challenges and Choices program. Woodvale Primary School and two or more abreast on a featured on Nine News, further out on the road. Cyclists are just It has a teacher resource for each team leader of Positive Education My first day of walking the footpath? spreading Positive Education with about everywhere in Amsterdam year level that is easy to use and contacted us soon after with streets of Amsterdam quickly the wider community.” had me discovering the road – except on the one motorway. linked to the WA Curriculum and 2. Does single file riding apply on details about the prestigious general capabilities, and includes the roads? award. SDERA wish to congratulate rules. While waiting to cross at Amsterdam is dedicated to teaching and learning activities Rachael on her impressive efforts the traffic signals, I was politely improving cycling safety by 3. Do cyclists have the right of “All our classes are required to about safety on wheels, pedestrian to lead the positive schools but firmly told by a cyclist to making adjustments to the road way on footpaths? implement resilience education and passenger safety. initiative, using the resilience- ‘please move’ while a finger infrastructure and focusing on using the SDERA resources. 4. Can you ride an electric bike on based resources and tools indicated where I should have safer conduct while cycling. Finally in the secondary years, our We have found the resources the footpath? provided at our professional been standing on the footpath. Challenges and Choices and Keys to be extremely successful and Road safety education starts in learning workshops. You can I hadn’t realised that I was for Life programs have students 5. Is there a speed limit on meaningful to the students at our nursery school as Amsterdam’s find out more about SDERA standing in the lane used only finding out more about the footpaths? school. by cyclists – a lesson learnt that road safety motto is ‘what’s responsibility of being a road user professional learning and day! learnt in the cradle lasts until including complying with the road 6. Can you ride without a helmet “We formed a Positive Education resources at www.sdera.wa.edu.au. the grave’. Educational games rules while travelling as a cyclist, on the footpath? committee two years ago to A typical Amsterdam street are used to help children aged deal with some of the challenges passenger, pedestrian and novice 7. Do cyclists have to stop at scene sees countless cyclists 3-4 years learn about traffic and our children face today. The either heading to or from work, driver or rider. driveways? parents are involved so they committee created a scope and parents transporting young can set a good example for All of our programs have a focus 8. Do cyclists have to ring their sequence for resilience education children in small wooden carts their children. Nearly all of the on providing parents and carers bell for pedestrians on the using the SDERA resources so that attached to the front of their city’s 225 primary schools run with road safety information that same footpath? staff know what concepts have bikes, workers carrying anything as part of the curriculum, traffic is relevant to the age of their been covered prior to the students from groceries to impressive education lessons that focus on children. Fact sheets explain 9. Do gopher riders have to give entering their class.” tricky objects like big suitcases, safety and also help students to the importance of supervising way to cyclists? ladders or even bulky furniture. Rachael emphasises the learn the traffic regulations. children when they are in traffic If your school would like to know importance of building positive Everybody is on a bike. In fact environments and modelling safe A theory test can be sat when more about our road safety relationships and models this 75% of Amsterdammers own a road use such as wearing a bike children are 10-11 years and education programs, visit our new within the school. bike, in excess of 223 million bike helmet while cycling and always approximately 70% of primary website www.sdera.wa.edu.au journeys are made each year – using a seatbelt in the car. She runs a lunch time gardening schools offer a practical cycling where you can download that’s 613,000 every day, and club at the school to engage examination when students As you will have heard, from 26 classroom and family resources. around two million kilometres is students who find playtime are 11-12 years old. During the April 2016, people of all ages are Term 3 2016 Term cycled every day. The popularity Anne Miller difficult. It’s open to all students Term 3 2016 Term examination, students are now permitted to ride a bike on Manager, SDERA S but targets children who need S W another alternative at lunch W NE PS The answer to each quiz whether it’s physically, socially or NE A question is ‘no’. For more R emotionally. SDERA is proudly funded by the Mental Health Commission and A E the Road Safety Commission via the Road Trauma Trust Account information on cycling, visit the R D E S Road Safety Commission https:// Award winning teacher Rachael Robertson D S rsc.wa.gov.au/Topics/Cycling. using the SDERA resilient Bounce Back Bear. 2 3 Saving Lives Together OUT IN THE FIELD with relevant stakeholders. The conference also extended on themes including resilience and engagement so we look forward to networking at future events to State of the promote our professional learning Partnership opportunities and fantastic resilience and wellbeing resources. Community Event Generation Next: (March 2016) Local Drug Action Greg Thorne, Margaret Maxwell, Sharon Bird, Kate McConkey, Joanne Harrison and Mental Health and Brad Bird SDERA attended an interactive Groups (LDAG) Wellbeing of Young partnership event showcasing, Care Schools celebrating and exploring state conference Geraldton schools health People (June 2016) the challenges of partnership (April 2016) conference and collaboration in Western (April 2016) SDERA consultants, Melanie Australia. Rose Power attended the Local & wellbeing champions Every, Carol-Anne Bradley Drug Action Group (LDAG) The event was an opportunity SDERA attended a conference and Rose Power were at the state conference which this year to learn about the Partnership Early intervention and encourage these kids to be the hosted by the Australian Generation Next mental health focused on ‘communities in action; Forum’s Strategic Directions 2016 empowerment was the sole next future leaders and show and wellbeing of young people challenging the drinking culture’.