Today Year 9 had a passenger safety performance. The performance follows Sam’s sister and father who are left behind to deal with the trauma of losing a family member as they try to find out what happened in the last few minutes of Sam’s life. The focus is on being a passenger in a car with a young driver. The project is designed to:
- Examine the responsibilities of passengers – challenging perceptions and preconceptions around being ‘just a passenger’ with no influence over how a car is driven
- Investigate the consequences of poor attitudes and behaviour as a passenger
- Demonstrate and develop effective ways to challenge anti-social driving
- Explore strategies for managing their own behaviour
- Encourage personal responsibility
- Identify and investigate effective ways to challenge peer pressure and peer influence
- Highlight the importance of wearing a seatbelt at all times within a vehicle
- Consider the trauma and suffering that would occur to family and friends left behind after a fatal road incident