The Road Safety Authority (RSA) has launched the Safe Cross Code Dance Competition 2019 for primary school students.

Now entering its fifth year, the competition encourages children to demonstrate to all pedestrians how to cross the road safely. Along with their teachers, students nationwide from junior infants to sixth class recreate the dance, performing the song in either Irish or English, for a chance to win great prizes for their school. Schools not only get to have fun but also to learn valuable life lessons.

To enter the competition schools must record their students doing the Safe Cross Code dance – this can be done on a phone or tablet by sending the video directly to safecrosscode@rsa.ie along with a short description of the dance routine and some details on how the school actively promotes road safety. The closing date for entries is May 10, 2019 at 5pm.

Moyagh Murdock, Chief Executive Officer, RSA said: “The Safe Cross Code song was written back in 1974 but its core road safety message is still as relevant today as it was more than 40 years ago. With the Safe Cross Code song comes a Safe Cross Code dance, a fun way to learn using visual, aural, verbal and physical learning styles to teach school-children serious and valuable messages around good road behaviour.”

Last year Castletown Girl’s School in Dundalk, Co. Louth were the English category winners and Scoil Mologa in Dublin was the Irish category winners. The winning school in each category will receive 30 x 7 inch tablets for the school while the teacher of the winning classes will each receive a €200 voucher.