Category Archives: Brightkidz Blog

‘Shine bright like a diamond’... how can a lyric from a Rihanna song inspire a child to become a road safety competition winner? Teaching children how to be safe and seen near traffic is much easier if you hand the creative reins over to them and get them to convey the messages in a way...

Are you ready for a story? National Storytelling Week starts tomorrow (27 January... until 3 February), and World Book Day is coming up (1 March). The flexibility of these popular events means they can be used by educators to inspire learning and interest in many different areas… including how pupils travel to school. We love...

Are you a teacher or a parent keen to get children to walk, cycle or scoot to school, but concerned about road safety? We know fear of traffic is one of the biggest barriers to parents letting their children travel in active ways to school. Here are some ideas on how to promote road safety...

Road Safety Week is approaching fast (but keeping within the speed limits of course!). This year it runs from 20 to 26 November; a few weeks after the clocks will have gone back and the evenings will be drawing in. Here at Brightkidz we'll be out and about working with local schools to show pupils...

Are you ready for a science lesson? This week we invite you to take a look behind the scenes and see how reflectors are made. We’ll show you what’s inside a reflector and how the special materials and processes help to make them so bright. Finally, we've some fun 'reflector' tasks you can try in...

Welcome to October... Did you know every October is International Walk to School (iWalk) Month? Here in the UK it’s an ideal time of year to be organising walk to school events and launching initiatives; pupils and teachers have settled in with their new classes, outdoors autumn colours are enticing and the colder weather hasn’t...

Guest Post from Modeshift by Ross Butcher, Modeshift Chair Happy Birthday Modeshift This year Modeshift is celebrating 15 years of helping our members to support people to travel actively, safely and responsibly. From our humble beginnings mainly working with a small group of local authorities we have grown into a national organisation supporting a large...