{:en}PRESS RELEASE (4/18/2017)
Thursday, April 20, a Loano, the initiative “Playing is learning”, promoted by the’Municipal Police Department and coordinated by the P.M. Command. in collaboration with the Loano public and private elementary school.
The traffic education day in the Don Leone Grossi Park in Petrarch Street will see the presence and collaboration of the’Autoscuola Matteucci of Savona and of the Pedibus Volunteers.
The morning will be devoted to games and educational activities On the highway code and the pedibus projects and Eco-schools. Children will be involved in walking road routes, road routes with bikes and gocarts, recycling game, sack race, bell game and child-size goose game with traffic education questions, speed race in putting on seat belt, balancing game with special goggles, speed experiment, game to understand the importance of wearing helmet.
“It will be a morning full of activities," says Councillor Enrica Rocca - and race courses that will test children's learned knowledge of traffic regulations. Through games and active routes, pupils will be able to test their skills and knowledge with respect to the topics proposed in class during the year: road signs and rules of behavior, civic sense, rules of coexistence, common sense and tolerance, behavior in case of a road accident, first aid and respect for the environment. With respect to the latter theme, elementary school pupils. Valerga and Milanesi have implemented the project “Recycle to Art”, an awareness-raising course on the issue of waste aimed at ensuring active participation by schoolchildren and citizens in recycling programs. The project closed with an exhibition on recycling set up in Palazzo Doria.”.
In case of bad weather, the initiative will be held on the April 27.
The program of events, organized by the Municipal Police Command and dedicated to promoting compliance with traffic regulations, will continue the May 18 with the “Crash-test simulation” which will be offered to older children. The courtyard of the Falcone Institute will feature a TIR set up for a show lesson with the Crasch-test, a rollover simulator in a road accident, and other equipment for prevention activities. The show lesson will be attended by young people from the second and third classes of the Falcone Institute, first and second graders from the Mazzini-Ramella Secondary School, and children from the fifth grades of the elementary school.{:}
