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SafeMark 2009 Award Results
Over 20 secondary and primary School children and teachers attended the Respect for Transport Golden SafeMark awards at the Council House in Nottingham yesterday to collect SafeMark certificates and other awards, as a thank you for all the partnership work promoting safe travel whilst using buses and trams.
These awards were made in recognition of the excellent co-operation between NCT, NET and the schools themselves, to ensure safe and respectful transport of pupils to and from school, and presented by Councillor Jane Urquart.
The Golden SafeMark recognises those pupils whose behaviour is seen to be consistently better than the average or the school which has worked the hardest to promote this message.
Junior School Golden SafeMark Award
These awards were made based on pupil attentiveness, contributions, questions and behaviour whilst at the Safety Zone event,
Junior Golden SafeMark Award:
- WINNER: Bulwell St Marys Church of England Primary School
- HIGHLY COMMENDED: Scotholme Primary School
Secondary School Golden SafeMark Award
Golden SafeMark Winner: Henry Mellish School - For their pro-active approach and for working with NCT to resolve a transport problem in uncertain times at the school, when many more pupils were travelling because of building work for their new school, the new Bulwell Academy opening in September
Highly commended:
- Harry Carlton School – for their continued support, & regular dialogue with NCT plus continuation of the successful Mentors scheme
- Bigwood – for the excellent working relationship and the progress made regarding littering on NCT buses.
Other awards were given too:
- Scotholme, Mellors, St Mary’s Catholic, Seagrave and Aspley Wood Primary schools for their participation in the High 5 NET birthday event
- Djanolgly, Bluecoat and Fernwood Schools who produced a film to celebrate the Trams 5th birthday featuring Nottingham folk passing on High Fives at various landmarks in and around Nottingham.
The SafeMark scheme, which was launched in 2005 and introduced a Code of Conduct between NCT and participating schools on pupil travel. More than 30 secondary schools in the city and county have signed up to SafeMark, which promotes safe and responsible travel among pupils while travelling to and from school.
The SafeMark Team have also been working with primary schools at Safety Zone events and visiting schools talking to many year 6 pupils about to go to secondary school in September to promote this message.
SafeMark has proved a success – since launch, incidents of poor behaviour among pupils on NCT school journeys has fallen. This is not only due to the Code of Conduct, but because head teachers are co-operating more with the bus company when incidents do occur.
The SafeMark scheme is supported by the Respect for Transport campaign, which aims to reduce actual and perceived levels of crime and anti-social behaviour on Nottingham’s buses and trams.
