Maidenhead & Windsor

Maidenhead Royal Borough school children are leading the field in this year’s Junior Citizen stakes as the popular educational programme returns for the fourth consecutive year.

More than 600 Year Six pupils from 18 Maidenhead borough schools will make up nearly half of the total number of youngsters taking part in the two-week event at the Thames Valley Community Centre in Chalvey starting today (Monday May 21) and running until Friday May 25 and next week from Monday June 4 to Friday June 8.

They will join other Year Six pupils – all aged 10 to 11 years old – from schools in Slough and Bracknell Forest taking part in the multi-agency event focussing on community safety and citizenship issues.

Also flying the Maidenhead Royal Borough flag at the event will be the council’s road safety team who will run sessions focussing on the importance of wearing seatbelts and cycle helmets as well as other road safety issues, and the community safety partnership (including the community wardens, the drug and alcohol action team and the anti-social behaviour team) who will address the problems of criminal damage and anti-social behaviour.

Organised by the Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service, the interactive event is also supported by Thames Valley Police, the British Red Cross, the ambulance service, Network Rail and Consumer Direct, who will all run morning and afternoon sessions aimed at making children aware of personal safety and encouraging them to become responsible citizens, featuring topics including:

· fire safety and the importance of fitting and maintaining smoke alarms
· the dangers of playing near water and dealing with accidents in water
· first aid
· railway safety
· stranger danger.

Royal Borough schools taking part in the event are:

Monday May 21
(morning)
Cookham Rise Primary (32 pupils)
St Luke’s Primary (33)
Holy Trinity, Cookham (27)
(afternoon)
Oldfield Primary (31)
St Mary’s Primary (44)
Bisham Primary (16)

Tuesday May 22
(morning)
Waltham St Lawrence primary )17)
Wessex primary (56)
(afternoon)
White Waltham primary (29)
Wraysbury primary (34)
St Francis Primary (35)
Wednesday May 23
(morning)
Holyport primary (46)
Larchfield primary (28)
Lowbrook primary (28)
Thursday May 24
(morning)
St Edmund Campion primary (91)
Friday May 25
Holy Trinity primary, Sunningdale (30)
St Michael’s primary (31)
Thursday June 7
(morning)
Woodlands Park primary (30)

For further information about the event contact Philippa Baxter, Royal Borough road safety officer, on 01628 796577.

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