Carway school award
The chairman of Carmarthenshire County Council has congratulated Carway Primary School on winning a national road safety award.
The community has seen a dramatic increase in commuters through the village and the school has placed road safety high on the curriculum. The walking bus proved a huge hit with pupils.
The Safer Routes to Schools Community Project, in partnership with the authority’s Transport Policy Programme Unit and Carway Primary School, has won the IHT/Atkins Road Safety Award - Reducing Child Casualties at the Institution for Highways and Transportation UK Awards held in Hendon. Carway School was the only Welsh application shortlisted and beat off bids by London and Scotland.
Council chairman Cllr Tyssul Evans invited pupils to the Chairman’s Room in County Hall, Carmarthen to congratulate them.
Road safety is a major priority for Carmarthenshire’s Community Safety Partnership made up representatives of the county council, fire service, police and other agencies to make Carmarthenshire safer to visit, work and live in.
Picture caption: Carway Primary School pupils are pictured with, from left: Carmarthenshire County Council transportation policy officer Andrea Jones, headteacher Rhian Evans, Carrie Walters from Carway School, council chairman Cllr Tyssul Evans, Tracey Lewis from Carway School, council transportation special projects officer Hywel Thomas and transport policy and programme engineer Simon Charles, and, front, head of transport and engineering Trevor Sage.
The community has seen a dramatic increase in commuters through the village and the school has placed road safety high on the curriculum. The walking bus proved a huge hit with pupils.
The Safer Routes to Schools Community Project, in partnership with the authority’s Transport Policy Programme Unit and Carway Primary School, has won the IHT/Atkins Road Safety Award - Reducing Child Casualties at the Institution for Highways and Transportation UK Awards held in Hendon. Carway School was the only Welsh application shortlisted and beat off bids by London and Scotland.
Council chairman Cllr Tyssul Evans invited pupils to the Chairman’s Room in County Hall, Carmarthen to congratulate them.
Road safety is a major priority for Carmarthenshire’s Community Safety Partnership made up representatives of the county council, fire service, police and other agencies to make Carmarthenshire safer to visit, work and live in.
Picture caption: Carway Primary School pupils are pictured with, from left: Carmarthenshire County Council transportation policy officer Andrea Jones, headteacher Rhian Evans, Carrie Walters from Carway School, council chairman Cllr Tyssul Evans, Tracey Lewis from Carway School, council transportation special projects officer Hywel Thomas and transport policy and programme engineer Simon Charles, and, front, head of transport and engineering Trevor Sage.
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