Junior Travel Ambassadors

Who We Are

We’re the Junior Travel Ambassadors (JTA). With our shining JTA badges and bundles of enthusiasm, we’re the pupils who think about road safety and transport! We are from all year groups across the school to ensure we represent the whole school.

 

The Junior Travel Ambassador scheme is run by Transport for London. We represent our school at Redbridge Borough meetings.

What We Do

Every Friday we meet to share ideas and opinions. During each meeting we discuss our progress with current projects. We also plan future projects, organise prizes for competitions, and select the winners of existing competitions!

 

The role of a JTA is to encourage a greener approach to transport. We like to see our friends and fellow pupils walking to school wherever possible. Walking to and from school is important, but we also want pupils of Churchfields Junior School to be safe on the roads of London. We work with our school to create a safer environment. We also have a lot of fun running competitions to encourage a safe and sensible attitude to the roads of London.

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Our Aims

  • To encourage our friends and fellow pupils to walk to school.
  • To make sure the pupils of our school are safe on the roads of London.
  • To raise awareness of road safety.
  • To suggest new ways to make the area around our school safe for our friends.

Our Successes

Since the Junior Travel Ambassador Scheme started in September 2014, we have:

 

  • Achieved gold in TFL STARS 2022 accreditation
  • Introduced a new Walk to School competition
  • Raised awareness of road safety at our local infant school
  • Worked with Redbridge Council to improve safety on the roads outside our school
  • Appeared in the local newspaper, encouraging safe parking
  • Announced our plans in a whole school assembly

Future Projects

We have lots of projects happening at the moment, and planned for the future. These include:

 

  • Running the Redbridge Walk to school week banner competition, in preparation for Walk to school week.
  • Organising Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel, Y4 Pedestrian Skills Training, Redbridge step counting challenge.
  • Planning a Day-Glo day to raise awareness of safety during dark mornings.
  • Organising a Comic Strip Competition, Bikeability weeks, Walking Bear , Dr Bike repair days, Lee Valley Velo Park workshops, Junior Citizenship Day and Theatre in Education shows.

News

Members

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I wanted to become a JTA because I do not like pollution and I want to stop relying on the car. We have legs for walking not for pushing down the accelerator. I like riding my bike and going for runs with my Dad. I also like to go into the forest with him.

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I wanted to be a JTA because I want to encourage more fun activities so that people can understand how important road safety is. I want to promote safe walks and help people with road safety. I also want to do something that will help the future.

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I wanted to be a JTA because I want to make a difference to our world. Currently people rely on cars as their everyday transport which pollute and as a JTA I want to change this so that our world can be clean and green again.

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I want to be a JTA so that I can stop pollution and keep the environment safe. I love bike riding and Day Glow Day that’s why I want to be a JTA.

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I wanted to become a JTA to stop pollution and encourage people to stride instead of drive. I want to help London have cleaner, fresher air to breathe and have safer roads to travel on.

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I wanted to become a JTA because I like road safety and I want to encourage other people to walk, cycle and scoot to school. If you live far away you can park and stride.

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I wanted to be a JTA because I want to persuade people to walk, scoot or ride a bike. If people live far they can park at Tesco and walk to school. Children who are in infants can learn from their siblings and will walk. I want to learn more about road safety and how to cross a road safely. I want to lead Day Glow Day and go BMX biking.

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I want to be a JTA to learn about road safety. I want more people to walk and cycle to school and stop driving.

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I want to be a JTA because I want to help the environment to be healthy and make people come to school with no cars just walk. I want to help people grow and have fun.

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I wanted to be a JTA because you get to let people walk imstead of using a car. If you live far away drive and park closer and walk the rest of the way. I want to do the fun activities.

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I wanted to be a JTA because I want to stop climate change from running our Earth so some people start riding bikes, skateboard or walk to stop pollution warming up our atmosphere.

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I wanted to be a JTA because I want to stop pollution and I love the sound of the activities.

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I wanted to be a JTA to stop pollution and so everyone can get some exercise and walk.

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I wanted to be a JTA because because I want to help the world to be healthy and not always to drive a car, I want them to sometimes walk.

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I wanted to be a JTA because I want to stop all the pollution. I would like to make sure blind people can cross the road safely.

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I wanted to be a JTA because I would like to make people more active and I do not want the air to be filled with pollution. I want to tell people to walk more.

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I wanted to be a JTA because I want to protect our environment and in the future make our school environment a better place.

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I wanted to be a JTA because I want to stop people driving cars and instead walk, scoot and ride to school and home. I want to have fun, stop pollution ruining our walk to school and make sure when it is Day Glow Day we wear bright colours so cars can see us.

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I wanted to be a JTA because I love Day Glow Day and I want people to try to walk to school or they can scoot, cycle or skate board so people can breathe so they can live.

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I want to be a JTA because I want to help the Earth.

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I wanted to be a JTA because I want pollution to stop ruining the world and look after everyone.

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I wanted to be a JTA because I want to help children cross roads with bright colours so the cars can see them.

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I wanted to be a JTA because I want to save the planet and stop pollution getting in our lungs and help people walk to school.

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I wanted to be a JTA because I would like people to stop driving to stop pollution.