Youth and Community

Our Bicycle Education and Safety Training is designed to be challenging, educational, rewarding and enjoyable. The programme has been designed to accommodate Year 4 to 6 students.

The programme involves a three step process:

Step 1: Our road safety instructors will visit your school to introduce themselves and talk to your children about general road safety, which lasts approximately one hour. This step usually involves a Police Officer accompanying our trained staff.

Step 2: The students attend the Redcliffe PCYC facility, where our trained instructors deliver a programme supported by our Police Officers. The programme aims to improve the students bicycle skills and most importantly teach road rules & safety.

Step 3: Your students demonstrate their new abilities and knowledge on our road simulation bicycle track, which has working traffic lights, street signs and markings; all within the safety of the PCYC fence line.

Bicycle Education & Safety Training is designed to highlight:

• Safe bicycle riding
• Scanning – Look, listen & think
• Road sign identification and understanding
• Road rules and regulations
• Reaction time & stopping distance
• Helmets & the importance of wearing them
• Planning & reactive riding
• Personal responsibility and legal obligations
• Public transport safety
• General road safety

Prep and Year 1: Little voices, big choices

Focus on pedestrian safety

Topics covered:

• Road signs
• Crossing the road
• Passenger safety
• Bicycle safety
• Stop, drop and go

Year 2 and 3: Watching you, watching me

Focus on bus safety

Topics covered:

• Bus safety
• Crossing the road
• Road signs
• Safe journeys
• Blind spots

Short practical exercises to practice following road rules at road signs

Project Booyah, which translates to an expression for ‘joy, excitement or triumph’, is a police run leadership and mentor program that utilises adventure based learning, decision making/problem solving exercises, resilience training, policing strategies and family inclusive principles to help young people aged 15-16 years make better life choices!