Our Junior Road Safety Officers for Session 2025/2026
Hello Everyone,
After a successful interview process conducted by last years’ JRSO Team, we am very proud to introduce you to your new JRSO Team for 2025/2026.
Welcome to our 1st post. We are Harry, Travis, Amber and Grace and we are in Primary 6. We are looking forward to representing Nether Robertland in our new leadership role and are very excited to get started on our journey with Miss McMillan supporting us.
We would like to continue the excellent work done by last years’ team by continuing to highlight the importance of Road Safety and look at different things we can do to keep ourselves safe. Last year a ‘5 star award’ was introduced for all schools to strive to, and our school EASILY gained this award. We would like to do the same and hope to be rewarded for our efforts come June next year.
To help us gain this award, we will be attending a seminar in September with other schools to learn new skills and share ideas. We will have a competition, create informative displays in the gym hall as well as speaking at assemblies throughout the year. We will be taking part in Walk to School Week as well as other initiatives throughout the year. Our mascot Ziggy will also be there to keep us focused on our leadership role.
Our journey will be documented in a floor book that we will keep updated as well as here on the school website. We have a noticeboard in the gym hall that will have useful information for all to see.
Finally, we would like you to have a read and adhere to the JRSO Charter that is attached. Please remember the slogan at the bottom of the charter if this applies to you and
Show us you care, park elsewhere!
Thank you from Harry, Travis, Amber and Grace
JRSO Seminar 2025 – Update
We would like to start off by saying a BIG THANK YOU to Travis’s Mum for dropping us off in Troon to meet Miss McMillan for our JRSO Seminar that was attended by various schools throughout the 3 Ayrshire Authorities.
We all had a great morning learning lots of new things all related to road safety. When we arrived, we were put into the yellow group with other schools. There were 6 different stations that we would spend time at.
The first session was spent talking about how to be safe around large vehicles such as lorries and buses. We watched a slide show and had a good discussion with our group about the dangers these large vehicles pose to us.
We then went onto the stage for some drama/role play. At first it was a bit embarrassing doing it, but then we got stuck in and it was our favourite part!! We were playing traffic light games and buzz games. It was really fun, and it helped us become friends with the other school pupils.
After being on the stage, it was time to go outside with Fiona who is one of the staff members from Ayrshire Roads Alliance. We had to wear a Hi-Viz vest and we were given a clipboard with road signs and pictures. We went out and discussed all the signs we could see as well as looking at various places that would be safe to cross. We looked at junctions as well as the lines painted on the road and the importance of them.
Snack time…..phew, we were all thirsty and hungry at this point, so we were provided with a snack and Miss McMillan also brought something for us too!
Next up was us receiving this year’s challenge. Last year, the JRSO Team were challenged with the 5 Star Award. This year is a Challenge Campaign. The 3 Ayrshire Authorities have come together to highlight the dangers of 3 topics, so look out for our information throughout the year. Our first one will be about the dangers of E-Scooters.
After receiving our challenge, we then went to the Digital station. This is where we accessed the JRSO website on Glow. It is available for all pupils, so feel free to have a nosey at the useful website. It is full of very useful hints and tips about road safety. There’s a member’s section that only we can access. This is where we can reach out to the other JRSO Teams and share ideas and good practice.
Our last station before heading back to school was the arts and crafts area. This is where we were to create a poster highlighting the importance of seat belts.
As you can see, we were involved in an action-packed morning that is vital for our journey. The information we received will be used throughout our road safety journey and we cant wait to share lots of things with you all…..including a competition that we are already planning!!
Thank you to all the Ayrshire Road Alliance staff that put on the great seminar and thank you to Mrs Beveridge who picked us up to bring us back to school.
We look forward to sharing our learning with you
From Travis, Grace, Harry & Amber.
Click below to see our Road Safety Charter.
Thank you.
GREAT NEWS UPDATE
The previous JRSO Team attended a webinar on Teams before the summer with other JRSO pupils across Ayrshire. Daniel, Erica, Reuben and Charlotte were to design a poster about Distractions.
They came up with the slogan ‘Arrive Alive, Stay Alert to Survive’ to go on their poster to highlight some distractions when near a road. They drew someone on their phone and someone with headphones on. I’m sure you will agree that these items can definitely cause distractions when near the road.
The panel of judges decided that our poster was the best and Nether Robertland JRSO Team were announced the winners!!!
They won some road safety games that were given to us at last week’s seminar. These are great resources for us to continue to promote road safety. Unfortunately, we had to send the poster away, so we don’t have the winning poster to show you.
Congratulations Erica, Daniel, Charlotte and Reuben!
