Secondary school programs
As Queensland’s largest advocate for road safety education, RACQ have several secondary school programs that teach young people skills and behaviours they can adopt to reach their full potential.
RACQ Docudrama Road Safety Program
The RACQ Docudrama is a two-and-a-half hour road safety education program that is offered free of charge to Year 11 and 12 students in Queensland. Docudrama is designed to be engaging, interactive and aims to empower your students to make safer, well-informed choices both as a driver and passenger. Students explore, and are equipped with, real world strategies for combating the ‘Fatal Five’ road safety issues; Drink and Drug Driving, Fatigue, Seatbelt Use, Speeding and Distraction.
The Program is divided into two sessions
Session 1: The Prequel
Students are immersed in an emotive mock car crash scene* which serves as a catalyst for discussion enabling the exploration of the actions and decisions of the people involved prior to the car crash. The session weaves relevant facts and statistics into the conversation in addressing ‘The Fatal Five’ (seat belt use, speeding, fatigue, drink and drug driving, distraction).Session 2: The Sequel
‘The Sequel’ involves developing strategies to empower students to make safer choices and decisions when they are either a driver or passenger of a vehicle. These strategies focus on planning ahead and the recognition of potentially unsafe situations with tangible ideas to manage these moments safely and responsibly.
*The mock car crash scene is either a cinematic, filmed crash or a physical crash scene involving actors and emergency personnel. The teaching portion of the Docudrama is the same for both.
RACQ Docudrama Road Safety Program
RACQ Driver IQ program
The RACQ Driver IQ Program is a one hour road safety awareness program that is offered free of charge to Year 10, 11 and 12 students in Queensland. The program is both interactive and engaging and utilises a resilience-based approach to empower novice drivers to survive and thrive throughout their driving journey. Key aspects of each stage of this journey are explored including the required 100 Learner hours, being a passenger and effectively dealing with them as a driver and handling breakdowns and accidents. Students are equipped with tangible, real-world strategies to enable them to maximise the Learner phase in preparation for progression to the Provisional driving phase and thriving beyond this. The two available programs are:
- The Provisional (P) Program: for Year 11 Semester 2 students and Year 12 Semesters 1 and 2
- The Learner (L) Program: for Year 10 students in Term 4 and Year 11 Semester 1 students
Driver IQ
Provisional (P) Program
By creating awareness about the ongoing driver journey and associated responsibilities, this program aims to empower provisional drivers to survive and thrive in this phase. Students will explore practical, real-world strategies for dealing with passengers as drivers and discuss the crash triangle. The differences between breakdowns and accidents will be examined and tangible strategies for what to do in such events will be unpacked.Learner (L) Program
This program explores the phases of learning to drive and provides real-world approaches to improve the quality of and access to driving lessons. Students will discover practical information and strategies to assist them in passing their practical driving test and unpack what it means to be a good mate in the passenger seat, brainstorming tangible strategies to do so.
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RACQ Driver Distraction program
The RACQ Driver Distraction Program is a 70-minute road safety awareness initiative that is offered free of charge to Year 11 and 12 students in Queensland. Driver distraction is one of the Fatal 5 that is becoming an increasing concern. This new program is designed to equip participants with tangible strategies to empower them to take greater control over their own road safety.
In the Driver Distraction program, students will view a mock crash scenario that occurred as a result of distracted driving. This film provides a catalyst to explore the key themes of brain development, the social nature of adolescents, technology and the young, novice driver space, to examine the interrelated and inextricably linked concepts of feelings, friends, phones and cognitive overload as they relate to travelling in a vehicle.
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RACQ Cash IQ
The RACQ Cash IQ Program is a one hour financial wellness program that is offered free of charge to Year 11 and 12 students in Queensland. The program is interactive, engaging and utilises an empowering approach to enable students to evaluate their current financial behaviours and challenge mindsets commonly associated with financial freedom. To support students to make informed financial decisions and improve their financial wellbeing, Cash IQ has separate offerings for Years 11 and 12; both of which aim to promote positive financial behaviours with simple, actionable strategies which can be implemented immediately by students. The two available programs are:
1. Cut the Cord; for Year 12 students
2. The Money Whisperer; for Year 11 students
Cut the Cord
This program explores the connection between financial control, personal relationships and goals as students are introduced to the Golden Triangle of Happiness. Modern society presents numerous challenges to maintaining balance, so students will work through interactive financial dilemmas to evaluate the impact of their choices on their happiness. Throughout the session students are involved in developing strategies to empower them to exhibit positive financial behaviours to make responsible financial decisions now and into their future.
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The Money Whisperer
This program provides opportunities for students to explore their relationship with their Money Whisperer and the impact this has on their financial control. Using interactive technology, students will evaluate some of their current financial behaviours, what it means to be a conscious spender and the role their ‘inner voice’ (the Money Whisperer) may be playing. Strategies for managing their Money Whisperer will be explored to empower students to make positive financial decisions which consider the bigger picture of their lives.