A Term 1 workshop recap
Over the course of term 1, Kaitiaki o Ara Delivery Leads have been out and about visiting schools and presenting term 1 workshops. Reflection is always a good tool to check our understanding and learning, so we thought this blog was a good opportunity to do just that.
If you missed out on a workshop; this blog should have some helpful information as well. We’ve also included the slides that our delivery team used, so you can have a look at what was talked about. If you have any questions, reach out to your local delivery lead. You can find our details here: https://www.sadd.org.nz/contact-us
Key talking points:
Kaitiaki o Ara
Over the last wee while you may have noticed that we have started calling ourselves Kaitiaki o Ara as well as SADD. In the term 1 workshop, we wanted to emphasise that you can use either name or switch between both. We are massively proud of our new name and encourage everyone to use it!
Peer to peer, youth led education
At this time of year, we like to emphasise that Kaitiaki o Ara is led by young people. We want to encourage, empower and enable SADD rangatahi to have positive road safety education conversations with their peers. As staff, our role is to support young people with mentoring, encouragement, resources and community connections to run road safety education activities & events. However young people go about this is totally down to them as they know their communities best.
SADD’s new programme aspirations
If you’ve been involved with Kaitiaki o Ara for a while you may be familiar with SADD’s six principles: sober driving, safe speeds, no distractions, avoiding risks, driving to the conditions, building experience. As part of our rebrand, we consulted with rangatahi who helped us develop our new programme aspirations which include and expand on the six principles. These aspirations are a great way to find out what SADD is all about and to help SADD students plan activities. You can read all about them here: https://www.sadd.org.nz/our-programme-aspirations Check out the links down the bottom of the page for activities related to each aspiration as well as resources such as posters which you can order for free! https://www.sadd.org.nz/get-free-stuff
Activity time
A term one workshop is always a great opportunity to try an activity to see how easy it can be to set something up to get our peers talking about road safety. Our activity “fast and furious” challenges participants to do something with a strict time limit such as 30 seconds. For round two, the challenge has a much more generous time limit. The point of this activity? The more time we have, the better our decision making skills are. Slowing down and taking our time produces better and safer results. Check out the activity video for more details here: https://www.sadd.org.nz/activities-resource-hub/obstaclescourse
Conference and other leadership opportunities
You’ve probably heard us talk a lot about conference over the last few weeks, if you are reading this and have not yet registered - the time is now! All of the important information can be found here: https://www.sadd.org.nz/conference
If you’re interested in further leadership opportunities with SADD such as the National Leadership, Regional Leadership or our Māori Advisory Rōpū then check out the ‘student leaders’ section of our website: https://www.sadd.org.nz/our-student-leaders
Jordan, Helen, Mira and Zyon all attended term 1 workshops in their region. Read on to see what they thought!
Q: Which workshop did you attend?
Jordan: Invercargill
Helen: New Plymouth
Mira: Gore
Zyon: Timaru
Q: What was your favourite thing about the workshop?
Jordan: It was a good way to connect with other SADD students from different schools.
Helen: The team bonding with the papers and stranded Island disaster activity.
Mira: Snacks and talking about my leadership role to other students.
Zyon: The ice breaker and the conversations and shared ideas.
Q: What is something new that you learned?
Jordan: More about the SADD rebrand and the new framework.
Mira: New quick activities, such as the portrait one that I will be able to use at my school.
Zyon: New ideas for activities to run at school, like competitions within the school.
Q: Which activities are your SADD group thinking of running this year?
Helen: Having guest speakers, impairment goggles and obstacle courses, seatbelt/crash simulator.
Mira: Drunk goggles activity, what would you miss car, having outside partners come in to talk to students.
Zyon: Competitions, vision impairments, what would you miss, quizzes, kahoots, fundraiser.
Q: What road safety issues are you looking to address this year?
Jordan: Speeding, especially on country roads. Knowing how to take care of your car.
Helen: Licence breaches.
Mira: Speeding, licence breaches, vehicle safety and maintenance.
Zyon: Learning about the road rules and licensing. But also the restrictions around licences.
Q: What does an ideal year look like for you and your group?
Jordan: 1 small activity a term, more for SAFER September.
Helen: Meeting up every now and then to discuss what we're doing and what's coming up and how to help each other out with activities.
Mira: Meeting a few times a term, holding at least 3 activities a term, having plans for road safety week and SAFER September.
Zyon: Being more active and organised, getting more people involved this year.
A massive thanks to Jordan, Helen, Mira and Zyon for taking the time to tell us what they thought of the workshops! If you would like to view the workshop slides you can view them here: