Our Junior Road Safety Officers for Session 2024/2025
Hello, we are Reuben, Erica, Charlotte and Daniel from Primary 6 and we are your JRSO Team for this year. Miss McMillan, one of our Pupil Support Assistants, will be helping us throughout our JRSO journey.
We would like to highlight to our school the dangers on and near the roads and learn different ways to make sure that everyone stays safe.
To do this, we will be attending seminars with other schools to share ideas as well as having competitions, creating posters and having a notice board for all to see. We will be speaking at an assembly and having some roleplay scenarios at playtime for everyone to join in. Our mascot Ziggy will also be helping to keep us focussed.
Firstly, and most importantly, we need your help in agreeing to adhere to our Road Safety Charter that we have created as a place to start our JRSO journey. Since our return to school last month, we have been very aware of the dangers that have occurred with parking in and around the school. Please have a read through it and help us pledge to our school that we will all do our best to keep Nether Robertland families safe.
Click below to see our Road Safety Charter.
Thank you.
Reuben, Erica, Charlotte and Daniel
BE AWARE, TAKE CARE
JUNIOR ROAD SAFETY OFFICERS SEMINAR
On Tuesday 24th September 2024, we went to Kay Park Church Hall for our seminar. This is the event that helps train us for our roles as Nether Roberlands’ Junior Road Safety Officers.
We arrived early to school on the Tuesday so that we could get the bus to take us to Kilmarnock. We left school at 8.45am and we walked to the bus stop on the Robertland Hill. When the bus came, we got on and sat together up at the back and it took us to the bus station.
We used all the correct crossings when we got off the bus to keep us safe and when we arrived at the hall, we were met by a lady who registered us and gave us a goody bag which included our JRSO notebooks.
Lots of other schools were attending and we were in the green group with 2 other schools.
The first activity that we were doing was with Barbara, who works for Ayrshire Roads Alliance. She talked to us about The Green Cross Code and got us to make posters. We used different coloured paper and we had the choice of lots of crafty items to use.
The next station we went to was to listen to a new initiative that JRSO’s are being asked to join in with. It’s called ‘STARS, we strive for 5’. We are being asked to do 5 things over the year and aim to get 5 starts. The things we have to aim for are….
- Sustainable Travel Initiative.
- Bikeability/Cycling
- Road Safety Campaign
- Run a school travel or road safety competition.
- Create and maintain a noticeboard or school blog.
We are looking forward to the challenge and hope to earn the 5 stars.
We then stopped for a snack. There was juice and biscuits provided for us and we were extra lucky as Miss McMillan bought us snacks too!!
After snack time, we joined Chloe who asked us how we arrived at school. We were asked if there was different ways we could encourage pupils to walk, cycle etc, rather than taking the car.
We had to use our imaginations for her next task. We were to come up with crazy ideas to get to school without using electricity! Water slides, trampolines, jet packs and flying carpets were just a few of the funny ideas!!!
Before we knew it, our morning was over. It had been really enjoyable and we have taken lots of new ideas away with us.
It was time for us to get the bus back to school. When the ladies heard that we were using public transport, they were very impressed that we hadn’t used cars or taxi’s to get there…..a big gold star for us!
Our JRSO Green Cross Code Competition – Watch this space!
Be Bright Be Seen Day: Keeping Safe in the Winter Months
On Friday 22nd November, the JRSO Team organised BE BRIGHT BE SEEN DAY. Thank you to everyone who joined in making this a successful day.
We wanted to highlight the importance of being seen in the dark. When the clocks changed a few weeks ago, it gets darker in the morning, and gets darker quicker when we finish school.
We want to give you some hints and tips so that drivers can see us when we are going to and from school.
We need to be bright and be seen. Why is this important?
It is important because it is darker in the winter months, we may have poor weather. It may be misty or foggy, or it might even snow.
When light is low and visibility is poor, we might not be as visible to motorists, as we are also smaller – and less easy to see from the windscreen of a car.
So being bright and visible is important to keep us safe.
What can we do to be bright and seen?
What can we do to make sure that we are seen when we are:
Walking – we can wear bright colours.
Cycling – make sure we have lights on our bike.
Scooting – we could wear something reflective.
Here are some more ideas:
- Brightly coloured hoodies / jumpers
- High visibility vests with reflective stripes
- Brightly coloured and reflective coats
- Reflective key chains for our school bags and reflective stickers for our bike or scooter
JRSO Competition Winners
We would like to take this opportunity to say a massive big THANK YOU to everyone who sent in a mascot competition entry. We had just under 130 entrants and it took us a long time to decide on our winners.
We would like to congratulate Ana and Lucia who both won with their fabulous mascots. Their winning pictures will be displayed in the gym hall next to our Green Cross Code display.
We also decided to have 2 runners up, so well done to Finlay and Grace.
Thank you to everyone and hopefully we can organise another competition next year.
Thank you from Daniel, Erica, Reuben & Charlotte.
