Policy

Do you know what your responsibilities are?

The department's Curriculum planning and programming, assessing and reporting to parents K-12 policy (2025) states:

1.1.3 Road safety education is taught in each stage of learning in the Personal Development, Health and Physical Education (PDHPE) syllabus Kindergarten to Year 10 and the 25-hour mandatory course for stage 6 students, Life Ready.

The Road safety education procedures provide detailed direction and guidance for effective implementation of road safety education in NSW public schools, Kindergarten to Year 12. It also clearly explains roles and responsibilities for principals, teachers, students parents and carers.

Teaching and learning

Do you know what content to teach?

The department provides documents that identify road safety content to support planning, programming and assessing for each stage of learning.

• PDHPE K-6 Syllabus (2024) - road safety explicit content
• PDHPE 7-10 Syllabus (2024) - road safety explicit content
• PDHPE K-10 Syllabus (2018) - road safety explicit content
• PDHPE HMS Stage 6 Life skills syllabus - road safety content

Have you explored available resources?

Transport for NSW

Safety Town – an online road safety education resource for teachers, students and families. It provides a variety of interactive learning activities for students from K- 6. Teachers are provided with comprehensive teaching notes to support the use of the interactive activities, and support learning as part of PDHPE.

On the Move – a suite of activities and resources that aim to challenge 7-12 students' thinking and actions as a road user to help reduce the number of young people killed and injured on NSW roads.

Department of Education

Teaching and learning resources – sample teaching and learning resources that can be contextualised to meet the road safety needs of your students. Use the ‘School level’ filter to search for resources by stage. Use the ‘Additional needs’ filter to explore resources that support students with specific needs.

Support

What professional learning is available?

Road safety education: SSP and support unit teachers K-12 - This professional learning supports teachers to consider the road user challenges students with disability face daily and provide appropriate support and guidance through individualised teaching and learning programs.

Who can I contact?

Contact your local department Road Safety Education Officer for school-specific advice and support.