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School Streets Workshop
On Friday 18th July the Travel Ambassadors and Eco Committee attended a workshop about the School Streets Scheme that operates around our school. Two consultants from Citisense who were working on behalf of Be First and Barking and Dagenham Council came to conduct a review on how the existing School Streets is working in our area. Their aim was to collect feedback from students, parents/ carers, and staff of their everyday experiences to help improve the current School Streets.
The children took part in an one-hour session which included a short introduction to the School Street, discussions with the pupils where they gathered their thoughts and experiences on what they liked, could improve on or the dangers of traffic around our school and a creative pollution catcher activity using paper plates, drawings, and a light smear of petroleum jelly. The idea was that the petroleum jelly would catch particles from the air, making the idea of pollution more visible and less abstract for the children. They then hung their pollution catchers outside in the playground to see what particles it catches to show how much pollution is in the air.
