About 250 children from 15 cities and provinces nationwide took partin the National Traffic Safety Contest for Primary School Pupils inHCM City on April 2-3. The teams were selected from local contests that had a total participation of 4,000 pupils.
"Traffic safety education is considered to be the most important,urgent issue for the education sector," said Tran Quang Quy, DeputyMinister of Education and Training.
The contest consistedof four main parts, including traffic safety knowledge, drawingpictures, performing role plays and composing poems, and writing andperforming folk songs with new lyrics.
Interesting games related to traffic safety and other activities were created to create a fun, joyful learning atmosphere.
The contest is part of the Toyota and I Learn About Traffic (TSEP)programme, organised by Toyota Vietnam Foundation (TVF) in cooperationwith the MinistryTraffic Safety Committee of Education and Training(MOET) and the National Traffic Safety Committee
TSEP hasbeen implemented since the school year 2005-2006. It provides teachermanuals and teaching materials on traffic safety for teachers and pupilsin all primary schools.
Role plays are performed andseminars are organised for teachers and education officers to introduceTSEP and explain its deeper social impact.
After fiveyears of implementation, the programme has provided more than 7.5million traffic-safety publications to first graders over the past fiveyears since 2005.
It freely distributed 82,000 VCDs and82,000 guidebooks to teach traffic safety to elementary teachers, and 32seminars for 5,000 key managers and teachers.
Around 20provincial traffic safety contests, with a total of 10,000 pupils andthree national contests for 7,000 elementary students, were organised.
Ten provinces have performed hand puppet shows in 700 primary schools before 427,000 students.
"In order to reach the Government's target of preventing bad trafficaccidents, we must mobilise all social resources and politicalorganisations as well as individuals. Toyota Vietnam Foundation is thepioneer in traffic safety education with new ideas and methods," saidThan Van Thanh, Deputy Head of National Traffic Safety Committee. /.
"Traffic safety education is considered to be the most important,urgent issue for the education sector," said Tran Quang Quy, DeputyMinister of Education and Training.
The contest consistedof four main parts, including traffic safety knowledge, drawingpictures, performing role plays and composing poems, and writing andperforming folk songs with new lyrics.
Interesting games related to traffic safety and other activities were created to create a fun, joyful learning atmosphere.
The contest is part of the Toyota and I Learn About Traffic (TSEP)programme, organised by Toyota Vietnam Foundation (TVF) in cooperationwith the MinistryTraffic Safety Committee of Education and Training(MOET) and the National Traffic Safety Committee
TSEP hasbeen implemented since the school year 2005-2006. It provides teachermanuals and teaching materials on traffic safety for teachers and pupilsin all primary schools.
Role plays are performed andseminars are organised for teachers and education officers to introduceTSEP and explain its deeper social impact.
After fiveyears of implementation, the programme has provided more than 7.5million traffic-safety publications to first graders over the past fiveyears since 2005.
It freely distributed 82,000 VCDs and82,000 guidebooks to teach traffic safety to elementary teachers, and 32seminars for 5,000 key managers and teachers.
Around 20provincial traffic safety contests, with a total of 10,000 pupils andthree national contests for 7,000 elementary students, were organised.
Ten provinces have performed hand puppet shows in 700 primary schools before 427,000 students.
"In order to reach the Government's target of preventing bad trafficaccidents, we must mobilise all social resources and politicalorganisations as well as individuals. Toyota Vietnam Foundation is thepioneer in traffic safety education with new ideas and methods," saidThan Van Thanh, Deputy Head of National Traffic Safety Committee. /.
