Traffic around Chatsworth Primary.

As you may know, there are lots of cars on Heath Road! While most drivers are very sensible, unfortunately there are a few that go too fast and this can cause problems when nearly 700 children and their parents and carers try to leave from one exit at home time.

Safety coming into and exiting from our school was an issue that came up in our recent School Council Survey and this week, members of our School Council came together to write a submission to our local council in support of a proposed 20 miles per hour speed limit in the roads around our school. This would mean that cars would be forced to go slower by law and help prevent accidents.

Here is the letter we wrote:

We are school councillors from Chatsworth Primary School and we are writing to you because we are concerned about our safety walking to and from school.

Recently, a child in our school, while walking home, was hit by a car as he crossed the road on the zebra crossing. The car was travelling too quickly to see him and hit him on his knee before stopping. Luckily he was not too badly injured however we want to make sure that no one else gets hurt. There are lots of cars that drive past Chatsworth and as we only have one entrance that people can enter and exit our school, we are worried that this could happen again.

Here are some of our ideas as to how we can improve the situation:

·         We support the idea of lowering the speed limit from 30 miles per hour to 20 miles per hour.

·         Extend the barriers between the pathway and the road.

·         Ideally, we would like a zebra crossing to be moved closer to the school gates.

We will make some safety posters to advertise to parents in our local area and we will encourage other children to walk to school to prevent too much traffic.

We hope to hear from you soon and thank you reading our ideas.

 

Yours Faithfully,

Tomasz, Alesha, Hifza, Jasmin, Madina, Bhargavi, Laiba, Tony-Ann and Miss Croash.

(Representatives of Chatsworth School Council)