The Municipality of Alhama de Murcia has been developing since 1985 a Road Safety Education Program for schoolchildren in the municipality which aims to motivate learning and compliance with traffic laws and raise awareness and raise their awareness on the prevention of accidents since the early ages .
Councillor for Local Police, Angela Sanchez, highlighting the work being done with children in the Children's Traffic Park and emphasized that next June will take place on local championship.
Local Competition Road Safety Education is targeted at students from 6 th year of primary education, who are the future drivers, the younger population about to be mainly affect any preventive intervention.
The competition takes place among students who have attended the Traffic Park during the current school year through the program being carried out between local police officers who are the teachers of the park, and the schools themselves.
The contest will be both theoretical and practical and will focus on traffic rules and road signs.
To do this, the tutor responsible for each classroom will be given the ratio of students who passed the 1st theory test and the dates of successive stages of the competition.
Specifically, there will be three phases: Phase 1: Heat.
All students who pass with 9 to 10 points, the test performed in the classroom Traffic Park, pass directly to stage 2.
Phase 2: Heat.
Be held in the classroom Traffic Park on April 14 and will consist of conducting a test of 24 questions and an essay on traffic in a maximum of 1 hour.
Participants are classified exceed 25 points.
Finally, there will be Phase 3: Theoretical and practical that will be final.
Be held at the Traffic Park on June 2, where participants will be tested in the classroom theory and a practical test of movement, both common bikes and karts.
The winners will be eligible for the following prizes:
1 st Place: Trophy and laptop
2 ° Prize: Trophy and DSi XL
3 ° Prize: Trophy and portable DVD
4 th Place: Tablet Touchscreen LCD
5 ° Prize: Digital Camera
6 th Prize: Voucher school supplies
7 ° Prize: Voucher school supplies
All contestants will receive a T-shirt for participation.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alhama de Murcia