Training School Safety Patrollers

Here are a few tips to make sure your training goes smoothly: 

• Keep training duration short (about 60 minutes), ideally during school hours. Students will be more receptive that way. 
• If your school has more than one type of patrol, plan to hold multiple training sessions. 
• Before the session, assign watch posts to the patrollers, and set their schedules if possible. That way the students can get a feel for how things work first. 
• Be enthusiastic in telling them how much you care about safety and how proud you are of your School Safety Patrol.

Here’s what you should cover in the training: 

• The School Safety Patrol rules and patroller pledge. 
• The different types of patrols at the school and the responsibilities of the patrollers on each type of patrol. 
• Wearing and taking care of the safety patroller belt. 

Patroller swearing-in ceremony

A great motivational kick-off is to have a short ceremony to swear your students in as patrollers. It doesn’t have to be a big event—it’s a symbolic gesture.