Ringway Works With Lincolnshire School To Provide A Safer Way For Pupils To Navigate Around Hazardous Roads

The Staniland Primary School, based in Boston, Lincolnshire, ran a competition for its pupils to design a road safety plan for the area which had to cover all modes of transport from cars and lorries, to cyclists and pedestrians. The plan was to raise awareness of road safety among the pupils at the same time as highlighting ways in which all modes of transport can safely maneuver around the road works at the same time.

Ringway has been working with the school to provide a safer way for pupils to navigate around hazardous road works near to the school. Ringway and Client Project staff are turning the winning design into a construction project with the winning pupil taking a lead role in the process.

Bob Sutton, the Contracts Manager for Ringway in Lincolnshire, said: “We have all seen incidents when children come running out of school, full of energy, and temporarily forget their road safety rules. So it is really important that children understand the dangers of traffic and navigating safely around busy road works. This competition is an ideal way of teaching them about road-signs, road markings and the safest way to behave in such conditions. At Ringway, we put safety at the top of our agenda and we pride ourselves in being able to assist in any activity that highlights safety. It is a pleasure to work together with Staniland School on such an enlightening project.”

For the competition entries, pupils could use road markings and signs that are used everyday on our highways or, as long as it was clear what the instructions were meant to be, they could design markings and signs of their own. They were given two different areas around the school for which to design plans. The first being a crossing between the school playground and school playing field; the second area where the playing field extends up to the end of a play equipment area.