School and playground signs
Children cross here; be ready to stop.
Watch for children on the crosswalk and be ready to stop, even if none are visible yet.
These use fluorescent yellow green, a colour reserved for school and pedestrian signage so it reads as different from an ordinary yellow warning sign at a glance, in daylight or under headlights. Shape varies: the zone and playground signs are five sided panels, and the school crossing sign itself is a diamond in the same fluorescent colour.
A school or playground sign means children may be near or on the road. Treat the posted slower limit and the crossing itself with more caution than an ordinary pedestrian crossing, because children do not always judge traffic the way an adult does.
8 questions in our banks show this sign and ask what it requires. Here are 6, each with the answer marked and the authority it rests on.
You are driving toward a crossing marked by this sign at the start of the school day. What should you be doing on the approach?
Covering the brake and getting ready to stop for anyone crossing
The sign marks where children are expected to cross, not where they will stay. Getting your foot over the brake before you arrive is the difference between an ordinary stop and a late one.
Highway Traffic Act (Ontario)You see this sign ahead and a child is standing at the edge of the road waiting to cross. What must you do?
Slow, be ready to stop, and give way to the child crossing
The sign marks a place where children are expected to cross, and a child waiting at the edge is about to step out. Children read closing speed badly, so the safe assumption is that they will go as soon as they believe there is room, whether or not there really is.
Motor Vehicle Act (British Columbia)What does this sign mark, as against the sign that opens a school zone?
The place where children cross, rather than a length of road with a lower limit
The school zone sign opens a stretch of road where a lower limit applies. This one marks the spot where children actually step off the curb, which is where you cover the brake and look well past the parked vehicles. Two different jobs, and a driver who reads them as the same thing slows down in the wrong place.
Alberta Driver's Guide (Government of Alberta)This sign stands at a marked crossing outside a school. Children are waiting on the corner and a crossing guard steps into the road with a stop paddle raised. What do you do?
Stop before the crossing and stay stopped until the guard and everyone crossing are back on the sidewalk
The crossing is not clear until the guard has left the road too, because the guard is standing there holding traffic for children who are still coming. Moving off when the front child clears your lane means driving at whoever is behind them. Wait for the road to empty, not for your lane to empty.
Highway Safety Code (Quebec)You are in the right lane and the vehicle beside you in the left lane has stopped at a crossing marked by this sign. What should you do?
Stop as well, because the stopped vehicle is hiding someone crossing
A vehicle stopped at a crossing acts as a screen, and whoever it stopped for is walking out from behind it into your lane. The collision that follows almost always involves the driver who kept moving in the next lane over.
Highway Traffic Act (Ontario)You are approaching this sign and the car in front of you stops in its lane for no reason you can see. What should you do?
Stop as well, because it is probably yielding to somebody you cannot see
A vehicle stopped near a crossing is nearly always stopped for a person hidden from you by that vehicle. Passing a stopped car at a crossing is one of the common ways children are struck, because the stopped car hides the child from you and hides you from the child at the same time.
Motor Vehicle Act (British Columbia)The other 2 sit in the signs drills, which ask sign questions on their own with the reason for every answer.
Counted from the questions written for each province when the site is built, not typed by hand.
2 questions: 2 on the G1 knowledge test
3 questions: 2 on the ICBC knowledge test, 1 on the Class 4 knowledge test
2 questions: 2 on the Class 7 knowledge test
1 question: 1 on the SAAQ knowledge test
Signs that share this one's shape and colour rule, and are easy to confuse with it under a clock.
Children cross here; be ready to stop. Watch for children on the crosswalk and be ready to stop, even if none are visible yet.
It is a school and playground sign. A school or playground sign means children may be near or on the road. Treat the posted slower limit and the crossing itself with more caution than an ordinary pedestrian crossing, because children do not always judge traffic the way an adult does.
It appears in the Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta and Quebec practice banks on this site: 2 in Ontario, 3 in British Columbia, 2 in Alberta, 1 in Quebec. Every question is original prose citing Highway Traffic Act (Ontario), Motor Vehicle Act (British Columbia), Alberta Driver's Guide (Government of Alberta) and Highway Safety Code (Quebec).
The meaning and the action are the standard ones taught across Canada. Each question above cites the law or the guide it rests on, and the exam facts on the province pages come from the records below.
Ontario Ministry of Transportation, G1 licensing rules and DriveTest fee schedule
Verified 2026-08-27
ICBC published graduated licensing and knowledge test information
Verified 2026-08-27
ICBC, How to get your Class 4 licence (form MV2506)
Verified 2026-08-28
Question count and pass mark read from the ICBC knowledge test sheet, fees from the ICBC fee list.
Government of Alberta published Class 7 licensing and knowledge test information
Verified 2026-08-27
SAAQ published licensing, driving course and knowledge test information
Verified 2026-08-27