What an exciting morning we had on Monday 12th March. Our road safety officers had arranged for the ‘Seat Belt Sheriff’ to come into school to talk about the importance of wearing a seat belt when travelling in a car. We also learnt that you needed to be 135cm tall to travel in a car without a booster seat. Many of us were shocked that we were shorter than 135cm and didn’t use a booster seat. We watched two toy cars filled with dummies travel down a ramp. The ones wearing the seat belts remained in their seats whilst the non-seat belt wearing family ended up coming out of the car and being injured. We all made a pledge to the ‘Seat Belt Sheriff’ that we would all wear our seat belts and encourage others to do the same.
As well as the ‘Seat Belt Sheriff’, Sergeant Peter Tate from Channel 5’s Police interceptors spoke to the children about remaining safe on the roads and when travelling in cars. Some of the children were able to look at the police interceptor’s car. The ITV news cameras came into school to film the assembly too and we were on GMTV news on Tuesday morning
