Your Instructor
About Your Instructor
Your instructor, Peter, is highly experienced. He holds The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) GOLD standard, which is the highest civilian driving qualification in the country. He is also a member of the Institute of Advanced Motorists practicing advanced driving for over 25 years and has given advanced driving instruction for several years. In addition to being a fully qualified driving instructor, he is also a DSA registered fleet trainer and as you can see on the right hand side of this page, is accredited by Edexel. He has recently received a Special Recognition Award by The AA for outstanding customer service.
He served in the Police for many years and, during that time, undertook driving courses of all different descriptions. Of course, in addition to his driving skills, parents can rest assured that their teenage children will be well looked-after and he encourages parents to become involved with the learning to drive process.
When giving lessons to learners, Peter’s knowledge and experience really shows, making it easy for his pupils to learn to drive and, at the same time, making lessons fun and enjoyable.
Learn with an Expert
We are franchised by the AA and therefore we comply with all of their rules. All AA instructors display a green DSA (Driving Standards Agency) badge in their windscreen to prove they’ve completed 12 to 18 months (on average) of training, and passed an exam testing their ability to teach you.
Check that there’s a green badge in the windscreen of your instruction car. This means your instructor is fully-qualified. Some driving schools place learners with a trainee instructor – with a pink DSA badge, and still charge full lesson rates without revealing that the instructor isn’t fully qualified.
The AA is the only national driving school exclusively using fully qualified instructors. The green badge in the windscreen of your AA Driving School car assures you that your instructor is a fully qualified expert.
Get the best possible tuition
AA instructors work to a strict code of conduct to help you get the best possible tuition.
It guarantees that your instructor:
- is fully qualified
- uses an AA driver development card to track your progress
- adapts your tuition for you
- gives you a full lesson of one-to-one tuition
- does not smoke or use a mobile phone during your lessons
- does not carry passengers on your lesson
- And AA instructors have a friendly, patient approach to teaching. They believe the more you relax, the more you can learn. And if you enjoy your lessons, chances are you’ll build up your confidence and your driving skills more quickly.
Be Careful.
Some driving schools advertise that they have ‘qualified’ driving instructors, but this doesn’t always mean that they are ‘FULLY QUALIFIED’. All fully qualified driving instructors display a green badge in their windscreen. This shows that they have passed all 3 exams necessary to become a fully qualified instructor.
Be careful if you may see a pink badge in the windscreen of a driving school car, Many other driving schools in the area have what they call ‘trainee’ instructors or PDI’s (Potential Driving Instructors).
These trainee instructors display a pink badge in their windscreen. The pink badge indicates that they have passed the first exam which is the theory test (containing 100 questions & the hazard perception test) and the second exam which is an hour long high standard driving test. These instructors HAVEN’T passed the 3rd exam which is the Instructional Ability test. In fact, some of these trainee instructors may have had very little, if any, training in instructional ability at all.
