Barnsley
Driving Lessons
Getting Started
You can apply for your provisional driving licence three months before you are 17 (or 16 if receiving disability living allowance). You obtain your licence by sending the relevant D1 or D750 form (available at the Post Office) with either your passport or birth certificate and a passport sized photo.
Standard Driving Course
Fisher's Driving School instructors will follow the DSA syllabus to give the pupil a structured programme of learning and at a pace that will push you and that you can follow. Feedback will be given at the end of every lesson and will be recorded in the "pupil log" chart. This will be used to assess progress and formulate future learning plans.
Intensive Course
We recognise that sometimes due to circumstances one needs to pass their driving test quicker than normal and we have become the area's leading experts in crash courses or intensive courses. An intensive course normally takes 1 to 4 weeks.
Pass Plus
So much more than just a few extra lessons, Pass Plus is a specially composed course of lessons worked out in conjunction with the DSA and leading insurers. Taken within the first year of passing your test this module of 6 lessons covers:
- driving in town
- all weather driving
- rural road driving
- night time driving
- dual-carriageways
- motorway driving
This course can save up to 25% on your insurance.
Motorway Lesson
Until you pass your test learner drivers are prohibited from driving on motorways. Therefore newly qualified drivers will have no experience of how to use the motorway network. A motorway lesson with an ADI will help you to plan your journey with confidence using:
- slip roads to join and exit
- observation skills
- overtaking and lane discipline
- breakdown procedures
Refresher Lesson
Passed your test then went to university and haven't driven for a while? Been abroad for a couple of years? Had a baby and stopped driving for a while? Whatever the reason if you are in need of that confidence boost when you get back behind the wheel try a 2 hour lesson with a professional ADI at your side and get back on the road again!
How many lessons?
The old favourite question: "How many lessons will I need to pass my test?" The honest answer is that we don't know. We do know that it takes an average of 1.5 hours per year of your life, so if you are 20 years old then the average learner requires 30 hours of tuition, a 50 year old on average will require 75 hours of tuition. Tuition can be both from an ADI or friend, parent or relative as long as they are over 21 and have held a full licence for three years. This is an average guide and you may require more or less tuition. Fisher's Driving School instructors can give a fairly reasonable assessment of the length of tuition you are likely to require after your first lesson.