Road Safety

Being in the busy university district is a great place to learn, but it also brings lots of traffic to the roads. We work closely with the local authority, the university and the police to ensure the roads around school are safe for all users. Recently, we had a PhD student from the School of Psychology at Lincoln University researching the crossing outside of school at the beginning and the end of the school day. Over 4000 observations of crossings were made over an 8 week period and a report was handed to me by the researcher, Amal Baswail. Its main recommendation was a simple one; “remind students about the dangers of using a mobile phone when crossing the road”. We will be stressing this in school in forthcoming assemblies – it is an important ‘keeping safe’ issue when crossing any road not just travelling to and from school.

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