Today the Road Safety Officers launched the Big walk or wheel to school week. So please make sure over the next two weeks you walk as much of the journey you can!

Today in assembly the road safety officers launched their new competitions! It is called ‘Shine Bright’ and it is all about wearing bright clothes. Key Stage 1 need to design a super bright outfit and Key Stage 2 are to design a ‘Be Bright Be Seen’ poster! Please make sure to add information about why it is important to wear bright clothing.

The deadline for this competition is Monday 31st October!

We want you all to keep safe!

Our advice to you as road safety officers is:

1. Wear bright colours so you can be seen in the dark - Be visible!
2. If you have anything reflective that is also good to wear
3. Cross in a safe place, never between cars
4. Hold a grown ups hand, walking to school and crossing roads if you are little, to keep extra safe
5. Look carefully and listen for traffic from all directions
6. Tell your parents where you are going, they need to know 
7. If you are on your bike and it is dark you must have lights on
8. When crossing the road: STOP, LOOK, LISTEN, LIVE! Remember this to help you keep safe

KEEPING SAFE AROUND ROADS!

Take a look at 2 short videos our Road Safety officers decided to make as part of road safety awareness week.

It is so important to stay safe when walking near any road and crossing them.

Remember: STOP, THINK, LISTEN, LOOK and LIVE!

Road Safety Week Competition Winners

Well done to our road safety competition winners!

They were presented with their certificates in a special assembly today by the Road Safety Officers. The whole school were impressed with their unique and vibrant designs. The competition was so hard to judge, we had three runners up, who also got a certificate and a special mention. Top work everyone!

Thank you to all our other entries, there really were some wonderful designs, that if put into production, would certainly help children be seen on the darker nights and ensure they looked super trendy!

Road Safety Competition Winners

Our Road Safety Officers launched a competition a while back and today in assembly the winners were announced. We asked out children to design some posters that could be displayed at the front of school, to promote road safety for pedestrians and drivers. There were some super entries, but here are our winners and you can see the posters at the front and rear of the school and hopefully everyone takes note!

Well done to all our winners!

COMPETITION WINNERS! 

Well done to our poster and helmet design winners!

There were some great entries, but these children had some wonderful ideas and the time and care that they had taken into their designs clearly impressed the judges. Remember everyone, we all need to keep safe and it is important that we wear the right equipment and also follow the green cross code and other rules that keep us out of danger. 

Special Visitors - With An Important Message

We have had some very special visitors in school today, PC Smith and PC Sarah. They delivered some really important messages about keeping ourselves safe, both in and out of school. We loved having them with us and would like to say a big thank you to them both for giving up their time

Sponsored Walk

As Road Safety Officers, we have been out measuring the course and have ensured it is measured accurately. We have used tour maths knowledge on finding averages, as Mrs Cox and  ourselves all recorded measurements and then worked out the average distance of each section of the walk.

We will also be helping set up the course tomorrow ... fingers crossed for a fine day!

Keeping Safe - Design A Helmet Competition

After Christmas, our school Road Safety Officers noticed lots of their friends at school had received bikes and scooters. They wanted to make sure that everyone was staying safe when out and about on their new toys. 

Isobelle and Breaze sprung into action, preparing and presenting a whole school assembly about the importance of being highly visible and wearing protective gear when out and about on scooters, bikes and skateboards. In order to demonstrate the importance of wearing a helmet they used an egg to show how easily you can damage your skull if you fell if you didn't wear one.

They then launched a competition across the whole school for children to design their own cycling helmet. The response was fantastic and the officers had a hard time judging who would win. However, a winner and runner up was chosen from each class and they were all superb! The children were able to explain their designs and some even had additional safety features, like glow in the dark paint and safety spots to absorb impact. 

What a great way to teach the children about keeping safe and well done to the Road Safety Officers for delivering that all important message.