Now entering its 4th year in the Bay of Plenty RYDA planning for 2022 is well underway with now Six Rotary clubs forming our Rotary Collective.All actively supporting and funding the delivery of RYDA courses to our Year 12’s, from Paeroa down to Papamoa.
Young people continue to be overrepresented in road deaths and serious injuries. RYDA is the leading and only national road safety education programme for youth in New Zealand, providing young people with the skills and strategies they need to stay safe on the roads.
The RYDA workshop features highly engaging practical demonstrations, real-life narratives, videos, quizzes, and interactive role-play. The RYDA approach supports youth development in several areas including social resilience and anticipating and managing risk.
Created for senior high schools, RYDA gives students a unique opportunity to set road safety goals and build strategies alongside the friends they will most likely be riding with, as drivers or passengers. Our goal is to reach every Y12 student in 2021, RSE / RYDA despite disruptions again from Covid we successfully facilitated 5 RYDA courses for the Year 12 cohorts for Mount Maunganui College, Katikati College, Whangamata College, Paeroa College, Waihi College and Tauranga Girls college. The Year 12 cohort from Tauranga Boys College were supposed to have their first course at the beginning of term 3, but this was cancelled due to Covid issues. Course planning for the 2022 course season is progressing.
We have Year 12 cohorts from Mount Maunganui, Papamoa, Katikati, ACG, Whangamata and Otumoetai all confirmed with course dates established between the 10th of February to the 18th of February 2022. Waihi, Paeroa along with Tauranga Boys and Tauranga Girls colleges are in the process of obtaining firm dates as well as Te Puke College with their courses looking like being facilitated in March 2022.
2022 is therefore shaping up to be the culmination of 4 years of hard leg work with us being close to achieving a rollout to most of our catchment high schools with some 1210 Y12’s being budgeted attending during the 2022 rollout.
Rotary’s contribution to each course remains as a flat fee of $2000-00, which is identical to the 2020 and 2021 course funding model agreed to by the six Rotary Clubs (The Collective). The balance of each course fee of some $8000-00 is funded from the participating college at on average $10-00 - $15-00 per head with the balance being met from funding sourced by Road Safety Education NZ. (RSE)
Jerry Cowper, Convenor