On your 1st driving lesson Provisional driving licence
Welcome to your first driving lesson! Make sure you bring your provisional driving licence issued by the DVLA and check that you can read a number plate from 20 metres, which is about six car lengths. If you haven’t applied for your provisional licence yet, click the link below to learn more about how to get one.
If you haven't already a provisional licence click on the link to apply for one.
Pick up location of your 1st lesson
You’re driving instructor will pick you up from your address or a place agreed on initial booking conversation.
Introduction
Your instructor will greet you and drive you to suitable location for your 1st lesson, your instructor will know your nervous and they will put you at ease.
Reading a number plate
Before you start your driving lesson your driving instructor will ask to see your provisional driving licence and ask you to read a number plate from 20m.
M.S.M routine/ or other skills
On the way to the location, they might discuss skills like using M.S.M (mirror, signal, manoeuvre), applying the pull/push method when steering the wheel, or identifying reference points at the bottom of the windscreen in front.
At the location
When you get to the training location your instructor will give you a visual reference point on the road outside your training vehicle when you are still sat in the passenger front seat, in the instance in the picture below it is a drain (white arrow is showing you where it is in the diagram below. As you can see its inline with a white centre line.
