Our year 5 and 6 school councillors started off the meeting by sharing their ideas for road safety week 2019. They presented their ideas with the help of a powerpoint they had created.
- Parksafe banner design competition.
- Walk to school cards (similar to the cop swap idea).
- Early years children to practise their road safety skills by using the bikes in the playground.
- Year 1 and 2 children to learn the road safety song ‘Stop, Look, Listen and Think’.
- Year 3 and 4 children to find hidden cards in the class room, create poems and songs about road safety and create badges with road safety pledges.
- Year 5 and 6 children will be asked to write home to their parents and carers explaining how important road safety is and how important it is when walking or driving to or near to school.
We were pleased to welcome Diane Mansell, Soho BID manager to our meeting. Diane explained the role of BID in the local community and the role of the ambassadors who patrol the Soho Road and surrounding areas. The ambassadors regularly patrol Grove Lane and Dawson Road at the end of the school day and will continue to do so in the hope this will further discourage illegal parking and stopping by the school entrances. Diane listened to parents express concern that many motorists fail to stop at the zebra crossing on Grove Lane. Parents felt that cameras being placed on the zebra crossing might discourage this behaviour. Diane said she would bear this in mind when they look at funding for junctions / parking / bus stops in the near future.
Operation Parksafe – a scheme that promotes reporting illegally parked vehicles. Staff and parents would be able to take a photograph of illegally parked vehicles and send it straight to the police for possible enforcement action. There will be a competion within school for the winning design of the Parksafe banners and Diane Mansell kindly offered to donate a voucher for the winning entrant.
Thank you to all the parents and carers that came to today’s meeting and your kind support.