City Road Safety Event - 7th May

There is a Family Road safety event on 7^th May, 10am-3pm at the Guildhall Square, Southampton.  All children, young people and their families and carers are welcome to attend. This is a multi-agency partnership event where there will be a lot of experiential learning and opportunities to talk to experts on road safety.

Scare the cars

A huge well done to Millie Cowdrey. After entering the poem competition, her poem was picked as winner from 3000 entries.

Scare the cars away

Across the school this week we have worked hard for road safety week. The BUG group have worked really well and as a nice ending to the week we had a scare the cars day. All the children across the school created masks. They all looked amazing. Well done everyone.
Mrs Carter and Mrs Rice

Scare the Cars Away!

On the 27th November. we are inviting children to take part in a "Scare the Cars Away" initiative run by Southampton City. The aim of this day is to encourage the children to travel actively to school, to celebrate Road Safety Week and to ‘scare the cars away’. We hope to see a dramatic reduction in car numbers on the day and most importantly teach the children that active travel can be a lot of fun! 

Obviously, it is not our intention to encourage children to actually scare cars...!

Instead, we will be asking the children to make 'scary' mask and writing an acrostic poem. Please watch out for our letter in the next few days for the details! We would like you to encourage your children to take part in the poetry competition – the closing date is Friday 18th November - and there's a chance to win a prize scooter!

Thank you for taking part.

Keep Pedalling!

Keep up the good work everyone - we are doing amazingly well with our 'Big Pedal' events. Thanks for all your support!

The Bike Doctor at work!

Bitterne Manor had a visit from the 'Bike Doctor' this week. We invited pupils to bring in their bikes and scooters and to allow them to be checked for safety. The Bike Doctor - his real name is Tim - runs his own cycle repair shop in the area but also visits schools to support and encourage pupils and parents to get to school in a healthy and sustainable way. His visit coincided with the completion of our new scooter shelter and bike rack which will provide pupils with a sensible place to keep them.
We will also be encouraging pupils to follow our 'wheels code':

Remember when you’re on wheels:

Wear sensible clothes that can be seen

Have a helmet

Examine your bike/Scooter

Each time you ride

Look, listen and concentrate

& Stay Safe!

While we think getting to school on a bike and scooter is a great idea - remember that children have to know how to do that safely before they can do so. We will be offering bike training for pupils in Year 5 and 6 in the Autumn term.

Road Safety Training...

Safety clubs have started today! Our team of JRSOs from Year 6 are supporting younger children in learning how to cross the road safely. They set up a pretend road in the playground with safe places to cross and children practised following the Green Cross Code.
Find the safest place to cross.
Stop just before you get to the kerb.
Look all around for traffic and listen.
If traffic is coming let it pass.
When it is safe, go straight across the road - do not run!

JRSO...?

Representatives of schools and local services in
Southampton

This stands for Junior Road Safety Officer! Here we are at St Mary's stadium along with other schools finding out more about Southampton's new scheme to keep children safe when out and about. It's actually simple -  get the children themselves to be the safety champions and let them spread the message about keeping safe! Southampton city council, along with Hampshire police and fire will be supporting pupils in getting this important message across. Sadly, the majority of accidents on the roads involve children aged 10-14 either on their bikes or as passengers or pedestrians. We hope this scheme will help keep our pupils safer!

Lucy and Daniel at St Mary's Stadium

Biodiversity

Our Green Team work is almost finished! Last Friday, biodiversity group went out into the school grounds and started to find suitable places for their mouse mansions and beetle hotels. Here are some pictures to show what we've been up to...

School Crossing Pledge

We were joined by special visitors from the Council today: Dave Harrison, School Crossing Co-ordinator and our own Lollypop lady, Lyn. Dave led an assembly on keeping safe when crossing the roads and we all pledged to respect our School Crossing Patrol Officer by follwing the safe crossing rules:

• Be polite
• Don't run
• Wait for the patrol's instructions
• Dismount from bikes or scooters whilst crossing

We were presented with a special certificate which is on display in the office.