Category: JRSO

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JRSO Update: Parking

At our last JRSO (Junior Road Safety Officers) meeting, we all agreed that the main problem that the school has is the parking situation at the end of the day.

Our JRSOs would like to let you know that it is unsafe for children and adults to park on the grass verges, on the bends and in front of the bollards.

The service area (the area after the bollards) is also an unsafe area to park as this is an area that is used by the children for walking through to get to their cars. It is also to be kept clear as this is an area that is required to be used by the Emergency Services if they are in attendance at the school (hopefully this will never happen). As you know we may need the Emergency Services at any moment and if there are cars parked in this area then this holding back the services from doing their job. So please DO NOT PARK in this area even if the bollard has not been put back in its place.

There are 39 parking spaces that don’t get used at the football pitch grounds. It only takes just over 1 minute to walk from there to the school playground. This area has just recently been resurfaced, so there are no potholes like how there used to be.

The JRSOs feel that this is a much better place and solution to the schools car parking problem.

The JRSO s would like to ask you as parents/carers to think about your child’s safety and please park safely and responsibly.

Thank You

JRSOs

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JRSOs

Today the JRSO junior leadership went for a walk to identify safe and unsafe places to park your car.

They made a video from the school gate to the football ground car park,  to show that it is a safe place to park and then walk to school.

https://vimeo.com/296909632

The group also took photos of areas around the school car park which is an unsafe to park.

 

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Junior Leadership Teams

Our Junior Leadership Teams (JLTs) are off to a flying start this term.  Working in our JLTs helps us to live our values of positivity, understanding, support, confidence and success.

Each team met to discuss their plans for the year – these will soon be shared on each JLT’s notice boards within school.

 

House Captains

We are responsible for leading special activities, including Pumphie Pals.

 

 

Healthy Heroes

We are responsible for promoting healthy initiatives throughout the school.

 

Sporting Stars

We are responsible for raising awareness of sporting initiatives and for sharing new playground games we have learned.

 

Creativity Crew

We are responsible for investigating and sharing the ways creativity can enhance learning.

 

Pupil Council

We are responsible for representing pupil voice on all matters related to our school.

 

Global Group-Magale

We are responsible for fundraising, raising awareness and communicating with our friends in Magale.

 

Digital Directors

We are responsible for learning about how ICT can enhance our learning and sharing this with others.

 

Rights Respecting Rangers

 

We are responsible for raising awareness of the rights of the child and how these rights can be respected.

 

Junior Road Safety Officers (JRSO)

We are responsible for raising awareness of road safety issues near the school and in the wider community.

 

Literacy Leaders

We are responsible for raising awareness and enthusiasm for various literacy initiatives.

 

Green Gang

We are responsible for raising awareness of environmental issues .

 

STEM Superstars

(Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths)

We are responsible for sharing our STEM learning to raise awareness and enthusiasm for STEM across the school.

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Junior Leadership Teams

This school session every child from P1 to P7 has had the opportunity to sign up to a Junior Leadership Group. These groups will give all our children the opportunity to lead an aspect of our school improvement agenda whilst having their voice included in developments and decisions.

The groups will meet for the first time this Wednesday, at this meeting they will put an action plan together for the year ahead.

If you feel that you could contribute to supporting one of these groups please contact the school office. 

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Road Safety in the Nursery

This afternoon the PM nursery children went out to the local area for a walk. We talked about keeping safe, particularly when crossing the road. The children were able to say that they should look both ways for traffic. They demonstrated that they could cross the road safely with the support of an adult.

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Travelling to School

Our JRSOs (Junior Road Safety Officers) carried out a quick “hands-up” survey last week to see how pupils travel to school. They asked nursery -P7 pupils and they were very surprised by how many people are driven to school.

  • Walk – 58
  • Cycle – 8
  • Scooter/Skate – 13
  • Driven – 86
  • Park and stride – 38
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JRSO Parking Update

Our JRSO Team and Mrs Bonner were out again this week.  A community Police Officer joined us this week to see the problem we are having and offer advice.  

Cars are still choosing to disregard pupil safety and park in front of the bollards (the red and silver car on the right of this photo below) and – incredibly – on the pavement! (The red car on the left of the photo below).

The white car in this photo has decided to park on the pavement leading to library.

Are you parking safely?  Please stop putting us in danger for your own convenience.

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JRSO Parking Problems Continued

Our Junior Road Safety Officers (JRSOs) were out with their camera again this week and – once again – were very upset and confused by the inconsiderate and dangerous parking they saw.

This was made even more annoying because the group walked down to Drumshoreland Road where there were spaces for more than 10 cars within a 2 minute walk.

Is your children’s safety worth less than a two minute walk?

Cars parked on the pavement and on the yellow “SCHOOL NO STOPPING” road marking – both of which are criminal offenses.  

Car parked on the pavement which leads to the library – again – illegal parking as well as inconsiderate and dangerous.  


Cars parked in front of the bollards – blocking the road for emergency vehicles.  Unacceptable and unnecessary.  

 

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PARKING

Our JRSO (Junior Road Safety Officers) with Mrs Bonner have been surveying parking at school pick-up – and they are not impressed!

They have seen cars parked on the pavement and on the yellow boxes which is dangerous, inconsiderate and unnecessary.  They have photographed some particularly dangerous parking in the hope that parents and carers will think about the risk they are causing.

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