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When I look around I see lots of happy faces. A lot of parents walking their kids.
Some know me name, some say the lollipop man, I've got a few that call me their friend...
that is fact!
There's enormous queues of traffic all over the borough, particularly school run time.
Whether it is parents dropping off or just people just going about their everyday business.
If all of those cars were taken off the road and children, and parents were walking,...
then that has to help with these congestion problems, it has to help with pollution problems.
I think we've been lucky in that we've had a real, real keen champion in our school,...
I mean Liz has been absolutely brilliant.
I think the STARS scheme has given us a chance to show what can be done in a school, in a poor area of London...
where children don't have bikes and scooters, they don't own a lot of things...
and we've been able to get lots of bikes here for them to use where they wouldn't have had a chance any other time.
To start with I rang Transport for London and asked how I would get some money to buy some more bikes for the school and they said "get a travel plan."
Not all schools appreciate what is available through the STARS scheme...
but as soon as they are willing to engage with the STARS programe I think they will come to realise just what's on offer.
We can help schools access all these different funding streams. As well as support from different organisations.
It's a mixture of money, it's a mixture of things like all the badges which I'm sure are quite cheap,...
but also things like, we have redeveloped our playground...
to make it something that is much more friendly for cycles, less potholes, much smoother.
Things like that require an awful lot of money and we were helped by TfL to do that.
Now can anyone tell me where the brakes are on a scooter?
Right stand on it, stand right on the back wheel.
Now that's how you put the break on, it will stop you.
Who can tell me why we put the brakes on?
Because when someone stops in front of you, and you need to stop because if you bash them and then another person bashes you.
We're encouraging all the children to get out of the cars, get to school under their own steam...
and use their own energy to move around.
Right, put your breaks on!
And if we've taught them the basic safety rules of riding on a scooter, they'll be safe out on the pavements.
Welcome to our Travel Ambassador's safety assembly, we hope you enjoy it.
They did a little bit of drama about somebody wandering along, not looking, chatting on their phone when crossing the road,...
and also driver who wasn't paying attention.
Argh!
Police! Police! We need help!
Get out of the car.
They also wanted to get the message home to the children to take home with them to say to their parents ...
please don't talk on the phone when you're in the car because it's not safe.
Nobody wants to have an accident because they hurt, so we tell children that they should listen to us ...
and that you should cross the road safely and if they don't then it won't be good for them.
Thank you for watching our assembly.
***Clapping***
A lot of them live in flats so this is a great opportunity for them to learn to cycle ...
and they don't have room, definitely not and most of them don't really have bikes, because most of the bikes belong to the school.
It is very good, it is very healthy and as you can see they love it.
They do enjoy it very much.
Are you racing me again?
What we do in the bike club, getting 50% of the school involved and on bikes is what gives us a gold level in the STARS scheme ...
and I think it also encourages lots of other schools to do the same.
After Liz had done much, much work in training the children how to cycle,...
setting up all our cycling resources and also training other teachers round the borough...
and this is what we very proudly received: East London School of the Region for Sustainable Travel.
Because we've got the STARS accreditation we can find out about things and people are more willing to give us money...
to increase the facilities here, for the sake of the children through the travel plan.
When a school has embedded the school travel plan so deeply as with New City...
they are often coming up with ideas all of their own about how we can encourage sustainable travel and improve road safety.
So for me coming here is a learning process in itself.
We are trying to get the children to think about their futures,...
to think about how they're going to travel when they leave this school,...
how they're going to travel when they are adults, so they're learning to cycle from a very early age.
At year 2 and 3 they're learning to read the maps and find their way about in London...
on the tubes and the buses and make them ready to go out and do something on their own.