The Junior Road Safety Officers for Foxton Primary School and their Head Teacher Mr Phillip Clark attended one of our JRSO Open Evenings held in October where they obtained information about the competition.

Isaac won a printed banner of his design for display at the school to encourage traffic to slow down, as well as a special Star Award for his achievement. The school also received a supply of high visibility drawstring bags and Star Writer pencils for all pupils.

Phoebe attended one of the JRSO Open Evenings in October and posted her entry along with over 200 other Junior Road Safety Officers.

Phoebe’s winning tag line “txt whilst crossing = coffin” will shortly be printed on a supply of mobile phone screen wipes and is designed to remind children of the dangers of using their mobile phone whilst crossing the road.

Thank you to Mrs McVea and the pupils at St Joseph’s for letting us attend your Achievement Assembly.

Meeting in the Council Chamber and Members’ Lounge for the launch evenings, guests were introduced to the scheme and were encouraged to take part in a range of activities hosted by the Road Safety Education Team, Travel Choice and Access Team, School Crossing Patrol Service, Community Speed Watch Team, Safety Camera Team, Police and a Medical First Response Team. Successful completion of this interactive trail gave the children the opportunity to win a bike. The school judged to have contributed most to the scheme throughout the year will win an activities day at Quorn Hall.

Bethany Clifford and Kira Palmer from Hugglescote Community Primary School were JRSOs of the year for 2010/2011. The two girls, now at high school, attended the launch evenings and gave a brief presentation about their experiences as JRSOs and how much they and their classmates enjoyed their school activity day at Quorn Hall, despite their team built raft coming apart whilst halfway across the River Soar.

Bethany and Kira have worked extremely hard this year. They were chosen for their originality, creativity and business like approach. Just one example of their achievements is the after school charity event they organised to raise money for Brake (the road safety charity). Congratulations to Bethany and Kira who won an activity day at Quorn Hall for their whole class.

Congratulations also go to our runners up who won a family ticket to Snibston Discovery Park. They are:

Measham St Charles Catholic Primary School

Grace Stewart, Anna Hopkins and Charlotte Haigh – Fantastic JRSO newsletter and hedgehog cress potatoes.

Stathern Primary School

Jacob Hughes, Fiona Johnstone and Fleur Ellingworth – Well presented Power Point presentations and popular road safety club.

Thurlaston Church of England Primary School

Carina Barber and Amy Thorne – I particularly liked your eye catching notice boards covering our road safety theme each half term.

All completed their level 3 ‘bikeability’ course and are the first in Leicestershire to do en masse. Cabinet member Lesley Pendleton, Road Safety tutor Simon Huckle and Head teacher, Richard Harris joined in the celebrations at the school and praised the children for preparing for safe cycling and being equipped with the skills and knowledge needed to remain safe on Leicestershire roads.