Kids had been handled to a particular storytelling session at Calderglen Nation Park in East Kilbride from loveable Highway Security Scotland character Ziggy.
The go to was a part of a nationwide, Ziggy’s Huge Day Out, tour of nation parks in Scotland.
It should assist equip kids and oldsters with the abilities, information and attitudes that can hold kids protected on our roads now and in later life.
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After a enjoyable, interactive storytelling session with their favorite alien, and many goodies up for grabs, kids put their new abilities into apply on a stroll across the park with Ziggy, serving to to deliver actual street security conditions to life in a protected, enjoyable and memorable approach.
Michael McDonnell, Highway Security Scotland director, mentioned: “Kids needs to be immersed in constructive street security attitudes from a younger age and it has been broadly recognised amongst behavioural psychologists that early experiences form kids’s future behaviour, reiterating the significance of practising and instructing protected street habits from the very starting.
“Ziggy is a enjoyable character with an essential position and the Ziggy’s Huge Day Out tour of nation parks will assist put these invaluable abilities into apply and create lasting reminiscences for kids and oldsters alike.”
Written by kids’s writer Lynda Kennedy and illustrated by Lynn Taylor, the Go Secure with Ziggy books are freely accessible to all Early Studying and Childcare centres and Major 1 lessons in Scotland, and oldsters and academics have entry to on-line sources and exercise concepts. The Ziggy collection can also be accessible in Scots and Gaelic.
Books may be ordered on roadsafety.scot/ziggy-order.
This summer season Ziggy visited nation parks throughout Scotland, together with Chatelherault Nation Park in Hamilton.
Particulars can be found on Highway Security Scotland’s social media channels: Fb and Twitter
For extra details about Go Secure with Ziggy, go to the web site.
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