Road Safety Week

WALT write within the persuasive writing structure.

I strongly believe that we should have kea patrol in the afternoons.
My reasons for this are, we are on a State Highway that is very busy. I think
we need kea patrol because having this keeps everyone safe, and the seniors
become role models and set examples to the juniors. Accidents happen on the
road that are out of our control, and this adds to the hazards on the road.

Firstly, when it rains the roads and children become more hazarders.  This is
because when the rain hits the windshield the rain makes things  harder to see.
When it rains, the sky is quite often darker an things are less visible. We need to
realise that where the cars park, problems become even more dangerous. When
the cars are parked along the side of the school, some kids will step out onto the
road to see if there’s cars coming. This is dangerous because if they are stepping
out onto the road, the children become dangerous for the drivers, because they
might swerve out of the way to avoid a child and hit another car.

One more reason is that the Highway gets a lot busier at 3 p.m. This is because
there are parents picking up kids and parents driving past to and from other schools.
The State highway is also the only way into town from south. Lots of dangerous
vehicles drive past, like huge trucks, motorbikes, vans, and many cars. Not long ago
someone did a U turn and crashed into another car, and only just the other day, three
cars smashed into each other. One car stopped for a kid and there were cars behind
and they hit the car in front. This becomes easy to see why we need kea patrol, the
highway is very busy!

I think it’s very important that we have kea patrol because kea patrol keeps everyone
safe. I think that kea patrol keeps the younger kids and seniors safe because they are
excited and are not paying attention. A lot of the time the juniors are talking and
laughing with each other and they completely rely on the kea patrolers. The signs
stop the cars completely and they are in between the cars and children, acting like

a safety net. I think that kea patrol is very effective, and drivers should be able to
see what is happening because there are bright orange signs and neon flags on
either side of the road.

Finally, kea patrol helps everyone. I strongly believe that road patrol helps the
seniors. Doing road patrol counts as community service. We also have a chance
to be role models to younger kids. Kea patrol helps out teachers because without
volunteers the teachers would struggle to do everything.  Road patrol also helps
the juniors get across the road safely, and if they do trip, no cars are moving so
they can get up and still be safe. I believe that kea patrol prevents accidents from
happening.

In conclusion I think it’s obvious that we need kea patrol because the signs, teachers
and the kea patrol monitors keep people safe and prevent accidents from happening.
I think the road would be more dangerous if there was no road patrol and kids
would be in much more danger. I personally believe we should have kea patrol
because kea patrol helps everyone stay safe.