Exeter pupils win prizes for road safety project

Every class at Stoke Hill Junior School worked hard and had fun learning about road safety during this year’s Road Safety Week campaign (November 20-26, 2017).

Their challenge was to think about how to make the roads around their school safer, and to create a poster promoting road safety.

The national awareness week is the flagship event of Brake, the road safety charity, and has been running for 20 years.  The theme, Speed Down Save Lives, was chosen because speeding remains a huge problem in the UK; the risk of injury increases massively with impact speed, and speeding is a factor in nearly a quarter of fatal road crashes in the UK.

Local Brain Injury Group member firm Enable Law supported the school’s activity and got involved in judging the poster entries and awarding prizes.

“We work with families badly affected by avoidable accidents all the time, and campaigns like this are a great way to get the message out there that we can all do a bit more to make our streets safer and reduce accidents,” said Lindsey Connett of Enable Law.  “The creativity of the children is always impressive, and demonstrates that they’ve had fun learning about a very serious message.”

The winning entries each received WHSmith vouchers, and all children taking part received a fluorescent pencil.

“Road Safety Week is about raising awareness that will keep everyone alert and safe on the roads. If we can make the message fun, we can make it last”, said Claire McKimm, Assistant Headteacher at Stoke Hill Juniors.  “This is a campaign we’ve supported for several years, and the children’s enthusiasm never waivers.”

The Brain Injury Group is a national network of specialist brain injury lawyers and support services.  If you have been affected by brain injury visit braininjurygroup.co.uk for help and signposting to services. 

Pictuted: Lyndsey Connet of Enable Law (middle row) and Claire McKimm of Stoke Hill (back row) with the children who submitted the winning posters.