Children learn the distinct roles of police and traffic police officers, including community protection, basic ideas about laws and rules, road safety, and emergency equipment. Police-themed crafts, a visitor or station experience, and dramatic play are integrated with letter T and colour-green learning.
What children learn
- Describe how police officers protect communities, uphold rules, and respond when help is needed.
- Explain how traffic police officers help keep roads safe using hand signals, whistles, traffic lights, and symbols.
- Recognise the letter T and its sound and construct its symbol with varied materials.
- Recognise and explore the colour green through art, sensory, and printing activities.
Key activities
- Dress a police-officer outline with uniform and equipment pieces.
- Assemble a paper-plate police car or jeep.
- Make a coloured-rice traffic light and discuss stop, slow, and go signals.
- Meet police and traffic police officers and make appreciation badges.
- Visit or recreate a police station for dramatic play and rhyme recitation.
You’ll need
Police and traffic-police puppets and pictures, uniform and vehicle cut-outs, paper and chart paper, coloured rice, glue, crayons and paint, letter T flashcards and craft pieces, police role-play props, green objects and art materials.
Structure: 5 days; each day includes a Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, gross-motor development, integrated cognition/literacy or fine-motor work, and numeracy.