Clockhouse are worthy Finalists!

The Junior Travel Ambassadors, Mrs Fletcher and Mrs Matthews attended the TFL(Transport for London) Travel for Life Finalist Awards at Kia Oval. We were very honoured that the Local Authority had nominated us for the Modeshift Impact Award. This relates to increasing the number of children who use active travel (bike, walk etc.) and decreasing the number of children who use sustainable travel (car etc.) to come to school. Although we did not win the category, we were very proud to be nominated.

During the day, we heard from different people from TFL. This included the Team GB Olympian, Victoria Ohuruogu. The children took part in two different workshops. One of these was how to present in front of people. James M-H (Japan) was chosen to stand up in front of everyone and take part in a small competition. He was in the final too! They also created posters to encourage people to change the way they travel etc. The children created a poster about slowing down when driving near the school and making sure that people look and think when driving. A member of staff from the London Transport Museum took a photograph of each of these and the posters will be available to see at the museum in the coming months.

Overall, it was a very good day and the children were true Clockhouse Citizens. Listening to what other schools have done has given us some ideas to bring back to school - watch this space!