Road Safety Week at Storth primary

4:05pm Monday 10th November 2008

CHILDREN in Storth will spend this week travelling to school on a “walking bus” as part of National Road Safety Week.

Pupils at Storth Primary School will walk to school every day in a bid to encourage exercise and traffic awareness.

Today the spent the day with road safety charity, Better Ways to School, to learn about the importance of seatbelts.

“We get the children to put eggs in toy cars, one with a seatbelt and one without and then smash the cars against the wall. It’s fun for the kids and hopefully it illustrates the importance of wearing a seatbelt,” says Pam Edmondson, advisor at Better Ways to School.

The charity has donated 50 high visibility vests to the school so the children can safely walk through the village in the winter months.

“A lot of parents are concerned about the idea of children walking to school because the roads are busy so they take them in the car, but they don’t realise that taking them in cars is what makes the roads busy,” said Ms Edmondson. “We asked the children if they would like to walk to school and they said yes, so we’re trying to encourage the idea.”