A Helderberg and Grabouw high school are among three that will represent the province in a national road safety education competition in October.
Nomzamo High School and Groenberg Secondary School, along with the Batavia Special Skills School in Claremont, Cape Town, will compete in the Participatory Educational Techniques (PET) competition to be held in North West from Sunday 1 to Saturday 7 October.
Sterling performances by the schools in the provincial round, arranged by the provincial Department of Transport and Public Works, took place on Saturday 29 July, resulting in selections for the nationals. The competition gave young people an opportunity to express their views on road safety, and to actively contribute to solving road safety problems in their communities.
Nomzamo High claimed the title of urban category winner, while Groenberg Secondary was named rural category winner. Batavia Special Skill School won the disability category.
The competition is a technology transfer project aimed at changing pupil attitudes towards road safety through participatory education.
The project challenges pupils in grades 10 and 11 to identify road safety problems in their communities, and to find research-based solutions. Competing schools were and will, during the upcoming competition, be adjudicated on: the quality of their models (displays) and their presentations on research-based solutions to road safety problems in their communities.
The department’s road safety officers and architects will be assisting the schools in the following weeks to prepare them for the national PET competition.
