Junior Road Safety Officer
Welcome to the Junior Road Safety Officer page and
congratulations on your new appointment as Junior Road Safety
Officer (JRSO) for your school!
Here you will find lots of materials and information to help you
to carry out your very important job.
Junior Road Safety Officer School Guide
The Junior
Road Safety Officer School Guide gives you lots of hints and tips
on being a JRSO. Inside you will find out how to run fun
competitions, talk about road safety to your school in assemblies,
keep a special road safety noticeboard and lots more.
You can download a copy of the
Guide here (PDF, 8MB)*. We also have a few special JRSO ring
binders for you to store your Guide and to keep any other road
safety information in. These are available on a
first-come-first served basis. To order one, contact the Road
Safety Team on 0300 123 5500 or roadsafety@cheshireeast.gov.uk
* Please note that this document is not accessible to users of
assistive technologies due to it being a print version only.
However we have added a web page containing text only versions of the monthly
bulletins.
Monthly Bulletins
Each month there is a bulletin for you to read out in whole
school assembly.They are a way of helping you talk about road
safety to your school.The bulletins have a different road safety
message each time, often fitting in with national road safety
campaigns going on at the same time or the time of year. Once you
have read the bulletin out, put it up on your road safety
noticeboard so that people can re-read it and be reminded of its
messages. All of the year's bulletins can be downloaded below.
October's bulletin is also on page 10 of the Guide.
- October
bulletin - Be Safe Be Seen (PDF, 229KB) (also on page 10 of the
Guide)
- November bulletin
(PDF, 285KB) - In-car Safety
- December
bulletin (PDF, 126KB) - The Journey to and from School
- January bulletin (PDF,
157KB) - Copy Cat
- February
bulletin (PDF, 113KB) - Winter Road Safety
- March bulletin
(PDF, 287KB) - The Green Cross Code
- April bulletin (PDF,
241KB) - Cycle Safety
- May bulletin
(PDF, 174KB) - Walk to School Week
- June
bulletin (PDF, 185KB) - Safer Places to Cross
- July bulletin (PDF,
105KB) - Staying Safe
There are no bulletins for August and September.
Click here for text only versions of these
bulletins.
Road Safety Noticeboard
One of your jobs as a JRSO is to keep an eye-catching and
informative noticeboard. The noticeboard is used to display the
monthly bulletins and message posters, to advertise competitions
and announce the winners and to generally promote road
safety as much as possible. Try to make your noticeboard as
interesting as you can. Perhaps you could put a brightly coloured
border around it or display some road safety themed artwork by
pupils - 3-D artwork would be great! And most importantly, make
sure you keep your noticeboard fresh and up-to-date - take down old
notices and bulletins or anything that starts to become tatty. More
ideas for your noticeboard can be found on page 7 of the Guide.
Tales of the Road
Tales of the Road is a
road safety campaign aimed at children - you may have seen some of
the adverts on TV? It has its own web portal which has loads of
great information, games and competitions. You can also watch
the TV adverts - perhaps you could use these in your assemblies
when you read out the bulletins? There are 4 adverts - finding a
safe place to cross the road, dressing brightly, riding your
bike and using stop, look and listen when crossing roads.
The Grown Ups section on the site is worth a look by you too. It
has some video clips of real life stories from children who have
been involved in a road incident, a funky Tales of the Road
magazine and 3 activity packs for download. Maybe you can use these
for ideas for competitions or to put on your noticeboard?
Tales of the Road is also the name of the new
Highway Code for children. Use this to find out all you need to
know about the rules of the road. It's also really useful for
helping with the answers to some of the suggested competitions
in the Guide.
Other Useful Web Sites
Here are several other web sites you might like to visit.
Think! campaign - this is
the national road safety campaign from the Department for
Transport. Lots of information about all areas of road safety plus
you can download publicity materials, radio adverts and video
clips.
JRSO.com - a web site especially for
JRSOs. It is aimed at children in Scottish schools but you will
find it has lots of stuff on there that you can still use including
ideas for competitions, a calendar and games.
RoSPA (Royal Society for the Prevention
of Accidents) - RoSPA is a national safety organisation that gives
out advice and materials on all sorts of safety matters, including
road safety. They have a great resource that you may like to use in
your road safety assemblies - a CD of road safety songs. You can
order the CD from Kevin Clinton at RoSPA and you can
download the words to the songs from the web site.
