Driving School in Sutton

Green Badge Driving school in Sutton offers competitively priced driving lessons in Sutton and Wallington, from £34 per hour in the following areas Sutton, Wallington, Carshalton and surrounding areas.

We guarantee that we only use DVSA approved driving instructors (ADI’s) with over 20 years of experience, ensuring that your tuition is of the highest quality, We will guide you through every aspect of safe driving for life, the show me tell me questions and the independent element including the use of the satellite navigation. Once you have passed your test we guarantee that should you wish to improve your skills further with advanced lessons, they will be conducted by the same instructor.

Green Badge caters for all levels and ages of learner from complete beginners to refresher courses, the re-education of existing qualified drivers and disqualified drivers requiring an extended test

We are committed to providing you with the highest quality driving lessons in Wallington, Sutton, Carshalton and the surrounding areas, to help you to pass your test first time as quickly as possible. We also offer a fast track option, we provide more that one driving lessons a week to help you pass quicker.

Once you have booked your first lesson, we will arrange a suitable time and location to meet you.

On your first lesson your instructor will carry out an eyesight test and verify your provisional license details are correct, to confirm that you are legal to take lessons, if you need glasses bring them with you.

Your instructor will then drive you to a nearby safe and suitable location within the Sutton, Wallington or Morden area where your lesson will begin.

The first lesson will consist of a cockpit drill, we will make sure your seating position allows you to reach and operate the pedal controls and steering wheel comfortably, discuss the legalities of the seatbelt and your responsibilities to any passengers. Your instructor will ask you to adjust the mirrors to a suitable position for effective observations and discuss the use of mirrors and blind spots. We will then move on to the foot controls from right to left Accelerator, Brake, Clutch (ABC) and advise what the pedals do, what foot you use for each pedal, when you use them and our instructional terminology. We will then discuss the gears, steering, handbrake, indicators and the vehicles instrument panel, your instructor will then discuss his dual controls and when he may use them, and our best dual control is our vocal instruction.

Before you drive the car we will give you a briefing on how to move off with car control, effective observations and signals if necessary, manoeuvre the vehicle into the correct road position then locate a suitable place to pull up on the left. Once you have found a suitable place on the left, we will then guide you through manoeuvring the vehicle with effective observations, signalling if necessary to park the car reasonably close to the kerb.

Once your instructor has completed the briefing it’s time for you to drive the car. We use three levels of tuition, talk through, prompt and independent.

You will move the car off under instruction, drive along a road, change gears and pull over on the left, reasonably close to the kerb a few times under full instruction, then with prompting and finally independently. Hopefully by the end of the lesson you will be able to complete the lesson plan without any help from your instructor. Don’t worry if you can’t though, your driving test is not the next day. Your instructor will then drive you back, discuss your progress and outline the next lesson plan, which will involve turning into and out of side roads.

We have extensive knowledge of the Sutton, Morden, Carshalton and Wallington test routes, we will guide you through the more complex areas such as the Sutton and Morden one way system, where bus lanes are in constant use, rosehill roundabout and the many ways you can approach and leave the roundabout, Morden and Wallington high streets as well as the speed limits in Carshalton Lane and Sutton Lane, where the national speed limit applies.