Big Yellow Truck...

The Totally Travel Committee organised a visit from the DHL Truck and Child Safety Team.

Ian and Andy came along bringing a 44-tonne DHL delivery truck - they brought it the night before, as you need to be a very skilful driver to thread it through the school gates! (We thought it would be best if there were no children and parents in the way!)

During the day, every child had the chance to see the truck close-up - it's really big! - and to learn about how to keep themselves safe around really large vehicles.



A whole class of 30 children can fit out of the driver's sight below the cab, and with the engine running all 30 children can shout loudly and not be heard. Everyone got the message about how dangerous it would be around the front of the truck!

We also saw what would happen if a balloon got caught under one of the massive wheels. If that had been a football or person, they would get very badly damaged and the truck would be perfectly fine. So we learned not to go anywhere near the wheels as well...

Some of the teachers managed to get a ride in the cab too!

Thanks to DHL and to members of our Totally Travel Committee who organised the day!