Learn to Drive with Confidence
Our approach is to spend the time necessary to ensure that the student is fully comfortable with the car before getting them out into traffic. We try to build confidence with skills such as negotiating turns, smooth acceleration and braking, smooth and confident quick stops, emergency stops, and looking far enough ahead to avoid most of the surprises on the road.
Once a driver has mastered those things, then when they get out into traffic, they’re no longer thinking about “the car,” and they can more easily focus on “the traffic.” As a result, we find that students who have completed our driving school course become safer and more confident on the road.
Our driving instructors are both provinces certified and trained to teach to our strict standards. But we’re not just teachers, we are driving enthusiasts! We appreciate the privilege of driving a car and everything that entails.
We want to share our enthusiasm for driving PROPERLY with a new generation, and that is why we do this. As a result, we’re teaching more than just the bare minimum of “how to drive a car” or “how to pass your license test.” We teach our students how to be safe, confident, and courteous drivers at their core.
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Our Methods
At 1st Driving School, our unique “Drive Safe For Life” Safe Driving System, will allow your child to learn how to be:
- Safe
- Responsible
- Skilled
- Proficient
- Alert
- Respectful
The last thing, you want, is your child ending up on the 6 o’clock news as another statistic in the frightening road toll for young drivers.
Your child will learn not just HOW to Drive Safely by second nature but how to THINK AHEAD on the road about traffic conditions, potential dangers, and accident/collision avoidance.
[mks_separator style=”solid” height=”1″Our approach to driver education is a personal and practical one. Our in-car lessons emphasize driver confidence and safety. We start by evaluating the actual skills and abilities of the student in the car with them driving. Students who have never started a car before, much less a driven one, are going to need a far more basic approach than other students who may be looking to fine-tune their skills before taking the road test for their license.
A student who is already licensed and may be looking to enhance confidence or general skills will require yet another approach. No matter what, we’ll adjust the flavor of our in-car lessons to match students’ experiences and goals.
So, if we’re teaching an in-car lesson with a student who is a new driver, we’ll spend the time necessary to ensure that the student is fully comfortable with the car before getting them driving. Proper seat and steering wheel adjustment, hand placement, and mirror adjustment might be our starting points. For a more experienced student, we may try to build confidence with skills such as negotiating turns, smooth acceleration and braking, smooth and sure quick stops, emergency stops, lane management, and looking far enough ahead to avoid most of the surprises on the road. The only way to learn these things is with in-car lessons, behind the wheel, with an experienced and patient instructor.
No matter what level of skill, we try to explain the “why” behind the instructions that we provide during our in-car lessons. Whether the reason is rooted in physics, in the mechanical capability of the car, province driving laws, or in common courtesy, we believe that it is important to understand why.
We’ve found that when students understand why they are doing something, they are likely to remember more of that information. We try to make our directions and the explanations simple and understandable, and if students don’t understand, we explain it another way, we demonstrate it, we practice it… it’s worth the time that it takes at every step in the process!
As a result, we find that students who have completed a course of in-car lessons with us become safer and more confident more quickly. Teach a driver thoroughly from the beginning, you get a better driver!
What we DO:
Our services are simple, we offer driving lessons! We teach folks to drive. We primarily do in-car behind-the-wheel driving instruction throughout our province. You can purchase a package of lessons, or just do individual lessons, you decide how many lessons you want your driving course to include!
We mostly teach beginning drivers (of any age). But, we’re happy to offer refresher lessons to experienced drivers, or to anyone who wants to improve or expand their driving skill set. We teach everything from beginning to advanced, parking lots to interstates, and everything in-between!
If you’ve been in a car crash (whether you were at fault or not), we can help you understand what went wrong, and what actions you might take in the future to help prevent future crashes.
We try to keep things as simple as we can. But, it still gets a little complex. We’ve done our best to explain and answer most of your questions below.
Actual Cost
If you purchase 6 or more, the discount is $5 per lesson! And if you purchase 10 or more, we discount $10 per lesson.
Each lesson is 60-minutes. Example packages are below. Single lessons and 8 or 12-lesson packages are easily purchased through our online scheduler form. Custom packages of any size are available if you call first.
| Package Size | Full Rate | Pkg Rate | You Save | |
| 1 Lesson | $75 | – | – | |
| 2 Lessons | $150 | – | – | |
| 3 Lessons | $225 | – | – | |
| 6 Lessons | $450 | $420 | $30 | |
| 8 Lessons | $600 | $560 | $40 | |
| 12 Lessons | $900 | $780 | $120 |
Driving Lesson Packages
Yes, we can sell driving lesson packages! To purchase lessons as a package, you must purchase at least 4 lessons and you can do it right in the scheduler worm. You decide how many lessons you want! Here are our recommendations on How Many Lessons to take.
Don’t hesitate to Contact Us, give us some background, and let us help you decide how many lessons you might need.
Contact us
Our services are simple, we offer driving lessons! We teach folks to drive. We primarily do in-car behind-the-wheel driving instruction throughout our province. You can purchase a package of lessons, or just do individual lessons, you decide how many lessons you want your driving course to include!
We mostly teach beginning drivers (of any age). But, we’re happy to offer refresher lessons to experienced drivers, or to anyone who wants to improve or expand their driving skill set. We teach everything from beginning to advanced, parking lots to interstates, and everything in-between!
If you’ve been in a car crash (whether you were at fault or not), we can help you understand what went wrong, and what actions you might take in the future to help prevent future crashes.
