What is the Junior Road Safety Officer programme?
The Junior Road Safety Officer (JRSO) programme in Scotland puts children in control of highlighting road safety issues within their own school. A particularly empowering programme, it gives senior pupils the opportunity to become JRSOs for a year. Their task is to organise a road safety noticeboard, deliver safety presentations to classes or assemblies and run school road safety competitions.
This can include:
- Preparing and maintaining a JRSO noticeboard.
- Providing information on a variety of road safety related activities.
- Facilitating with competitions.
JRSOs encourage teachers and young people to engage in activities which will help put pupils on a path to becoming confident individuals.
They also help to:
- Assess risk
- Relate to others
- Manage themselves
- Pursue a healthy lifestyle
- Promote health and wellbeing to young people
JRSO Committee
This is a position held by Primary 6 and each year we hold elections to choose our Officers.
Class representatives from P6 attend regular meetings. The Officers will feedback to the school on different initiatives and assist in the organisation of safe and active travel activities.
This year the pupils on the Committee are: Mitchell, Zoe, Lily, Anna, Blair and Lyla
What is a JRSO?
JRSO stands for Junior Road Safety Officer.
JRSOs are a very important part of the primary school as they help raise road safety awareness and promote road safety issues to everyone in the school and the wider community.
JRSOs may talk at assemblies and to classes on road safety topics.
JRSOs help to run competitions in the school and get prizes for the winners.
Article 17: You have the right to get information that is important to your well-being.
Article 28: Your education should help you use your talents and abilities. It should also help you to learn to live peacefully, protect the environment and respect other people.
Giffnock Primary School is officially recognized by Cycling Scotland as a ‘Cycle Friendly School’. P6 pupils participate annually in Bikeability Level 2 cycle training, gaining proficiency in cycling safely both within the school grounds and in the wider community. Some of our P7 children also now participate in Bikeability Level 3.
Giffnock Primary School Travel Plan
The JRSO Committee is actively involved in the creation and implementation of the school’s travel plan. The travel plan contains information on road safety, the green cross code, cycling, walking to school and ‘park and stride’.
Giffnock Primary School Travel Plan 2019 to 2022
Green Travel Map – Giffnock Schools
More Information
You can find out more from this leaflet:
JRSO: Helping children to understand the JRSO programme and ideas for JRSO activities.
Road Safety Scotland: Provides information on road safety resources developed specifically to support Curriculum for Excellence.
http://www.roadsafetyscotland.org.uk/
Bikeability Scotland: Bikeability Scotland is a cycle training scheme designed to give children the skills and confidence they need both to cycle safely on the roads, and to encourage them to carry on cycling into adulthood.
http://bikeabilityscotland.org/
