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DVLA code challenge.jpgSchool children design game to promote cycle safety
School children in Abergavenny are in the final of a DVLA competition with their invention - a cycle safety simulator.
Hywel Lewis, 10, Ella Gribbin, 10 and Sophia Elias, nine, of Our Lady and St Michael’s Primary School, created a game about cycle safety in response to a DVLA call to make a road safety game using Scratch, a coding language for learners.
The DVLA code challenge, in association with Code Club and the STEM Ambassador hub Wales, Incredible Oceans, Brake, The four Police Forces in Wales and School Beat, Road Safety Wales, The Fire and rescue Service and the British Army, asks young people to build a game that highlights how young people can spot hazards and stay safe while cycling.
First prize is £3000 of IT equipment for the school.
The group of talented pupils are one of just five groups to have made it through to the final of the competition, which will take place on Tuesday, November 28.
They have already earned their school £750 worth of IT equipment by making the final.
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it feels a conveniant donkey to put the tail on imo, and Im not saying some members didnt quit BC because of the Shell thing, but Im not entirely...
- espressodan 4 hours 20 min ago
I'm never convinced how helmets with built in cameras and lights can be acceptable safe. Sounds like a good way to get a camera embedded in your...
- Rendel Harris 4 hours 28 min ago
Did I mention that it costs £580?
- chrisonabike 4 hours 28 min ago
Yeah - and one of the passengers had the gall to say that the *driver* had taken a wrong turn!...
- chrisonabike 4 hours 45 min ago
Don't worry! They've got plenty of others they can use!...
- Rendel Harris 5 hours 1 min ago
Well what is that way? Are you suggesting that every bend on every descent can be barriered over a 180km mountain stage?
- slappop 9 hours 14 min ago
Hopefully it'll still be allowed for recreational use.
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Well Gloucestershire are getting better. I'm being told whether or not action is to be taken, but not what action, within a few days of each report...
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Churnalism nowadays - mostly clickbait stuff and regurgitation in the local rags/comics and beyond.
- DogOfOB 12 hours 47 min ago
I'm glad the barrier wasn't damaged. Whew, close one there! \s
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The high vis is for the teachers benefit, it's easier to spot when one of the little darlings is in the wrong place / doing the wrong thing. Also makes it less likely that someone gets left behind or traded in for a different model.
I hadn't thought of that; I guess that's the same reasoning behind when you see a school party trip and they're all wearing an identical fuschia backpack with the name of their school on the back...
(Or any club team in uniform...)
It's fine until you get 3 or 4 school trips in the same place, all in the same bright yelliw tabards. Great fun to watch...
But given the frequency with which drivers round here hit trees, buildings, and 100 year old stone walls, yes, i think some of them might well not see 30 kids.
School uniform does exactly the same thing, the main point about it is to identify pupils by them wearing it.
As for kids getting lost, this wasn't an issue before so it's yet more bs and you fell for it hook line and sinker
So the school trips I saw at Alton towers when i was last there were all in high vis for the benefit of drivers? I side the theme park?
I even remember when my children wete younger them all being kitted out in bright red t shirts to be easier to identify at the beach. Also not all schools have uniform.
They could use the less obtrusive, yet equally effective, number plate system.
Jus' sayin'.
How about DVLA get kids to do this for their parents driving motors first, yet again pushing the onus on the vuklnerable by snide, underhanded tactics. Even last week that was supposedly road safety week THINK had their usual victim blaming nonsense telling kids on foot to wear hi-vis etc.
and all the while still feck all done to curb the killers!
My office window overlooks a road that leads to a primary school. Every couple of days they take a class of kids out on foot for something. With staff and kids all wearing fluorescent yellow tabards with reflective strips, in the middle of the day (even when it was bright sunshine). As if someone would fail to notice a snake of thirty odd primary school kids ...