Road Safety
Thank you to our school community who worked hard together to make the surrounding roads safer at the start and end of the school day.
In 2024, we consulted with parents, staff, children and the local residents in an effort to change the route into school. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive and have far less complaints from our stakeholders about this.
- Breakfast Club is available at 7:30-8:30am.
- Walking Bus is available daily from 8:20 am outside St Paul's Convent, supervised by school staff.
Both of the initiatives have significantly reduced the congestion around the school in the mornings.
Road Safety Week is acknowledged annually in November. As a school, we use this opportunity to raise awareness of the dangers through assemblies and activities undertaken in school. Last year our school council stood on Greenland and Selly Park School, raising awareness with their banners. This led to the change in route and times of the opening and closing of school.
Dangers
Every day, five people are killed and more than 60 people are seriously injured on UK roads [1][2]. There are an estimated further 29,000 deaths from particulate matter pollution in the UK [3], 5,000 of which are attributable to road transport [4], and an additional 23,500 deaths from NO2 [5]. Brake asked everyone to help end this needless suffering by spreading the word in Road Safety Week about the life-saving importance of the Pledge.
For media enquiries, interviews with Brake, and to find out about regional Road Safety Week launch events across the UK, contact news@brake.org.uk.
Find out more about Road Safety Week Tweet your support: @Brakecharity, #RoadSafetyWeek, #brakepledge.
Brake
Brake is a national road safety charity that exists to stop the needless deaths and serious injuries that happen on roads every day, make streets and communities safer for everyone, and care for families bereaved and injured in road crashes. Brake promotes road safety awareness, safe and sustainable road use, and effective road safety policies. We do this through national campaigns, community education, services for road safety professionals and employers, and by coordinating the UK's flagship road safety event every November, Road Safety Week. Brake is a national, government-funded provider of support to families and individuals devastated by road death and serious injury, including through a helpline and support packs.
Brake was founded in the UK in 1995, and now has domestic operations in the UK and New Zealand, and works globally to promote action on road safety.
Road crashes are not accidents; they are devastating and preventable events, not chance mishaps. Calling them accidents undermines work to make roads safer, and can cause insult to families whose lives have been torn apart by needless casualties.