High Vis Fashion Parade for Assembly

As part of our 'Be Bright Northants' project I went to Victoria Infants School in Wellingbrough to do an assembly last week. Here are some of the kids kitted out in BrightKidz fluorescent, reflective clothing etc for the 'mini fashion show' at the end.

We talked about different jobs where people wear fluorescent, reflective clothing and why they need to be seen. Walking to school is high on the agenda for the school so it was also a good chance to plug walking to school and the 'park and stride' idea which the school is trying to promote.

It's not that difficult to explain to four+ year olds that reflective (shiny) shows up at night and fluorescent (bright colours) show up in the day (I wish adults would understand it that easily). And yes, I know 'fluorescent' is a very long word for a 4 year old - but it is surprising how keen they were to learn it once I told them lots of adults don't know what it means!