Junior Safety Officers of the Year are announced
Cheshire West and Chester Council’s Road Safety team and Cheshire Constabulary have announced the winners of this year’s Junior Safety Officers (JSO) awards.
Every year, pupils from participating schools are nominated to promote road, community and personal safety within their school. Their role includes reading out special safety messages during assemblies and organising competitions.
The JSOs record how they raised awareness of road, personal and community safety in their school and across the community for the school year by logging it in their JSO handbook.
This year the winners of Junior Safety Officers of the Year are Joesph and Robin from Farndon Primary School.
The Council’s Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Environment, Transport and Highways, Councillor Karen Shore said:
The Council’s Road Safety team and Cheshire Constabulary work in partnership to promote the Junior Safety Officers scheme. The JSOs spread safety messages in schools, to family and friends and to their local communities to raise awareness on keeping yourself and others safe. All primary schools across Cheshire West and Chester are invited to nominate children in year six to take part each year. I’d like to congratulate the winners and finalists on their success, but also thank all of this year’s JSOs for all their hard work.
Joesph and Robin went above and beyond in their efforts to make their school environment a safer place to be. From reading out road safety stories to the younger year groups, being involved with the infants Green Cross code, and safety interventions, involving their PCSO in the speeding, parking and no idling activities. They looked for cars parking across neighbours’ driveways, on the footpaths, on the yellow zig zags and using double yellow lines without a Blue Badge.
They also encouraged more active modes of transport like walking, wheeling or cycling to school, including Walk to School Week in May, whilst in June promoting Brakes sponsored Walk to School, along with Clean Air Day.
Robin said:
I have loved being a JSO this year, helping teach the younger children to learn more about road safety. My best part though was when the PCSO came in and we got to use the speed guns outside the school gates.
Joseph said:
I really enjoyed being the school JSO but my favourite part was when the PCSO bought in the police car to the playground and we got to show all the infants around it.
Mrs Barnes, the Junior safety Officer guide, said:
We are incredible proud of how hard Robin and Joseph have worked. They have been so enthusiastic about getting the safety messages out to the school.
The Council’s Road Safety team presented the pupils with a trophy on behalf of the Council and Cheshire Constabulary. They each also received a certificate and cycle accessory vouchers.
Finalists Belle and Janessa from St. Saviour’s Catholic Primary and Nursery School, Ellesmere Port and Ava and Frankie from Over St John’s Primary School, Winsford each received certificates and vouchers too.
Congratulations go to both schools for their outstanding effort in promoting parents parking safely outside schools, St Saviours outstanding effort at March’s Bike, Walk and Wheel Month and Over St John’s tremendous effort at promoting Being Seen Being Bright along with their five point safety check to encourage everyone to be safe.