Abbey Junior PCSOs 2021-2022
The Abbey Junior PCSO Pledge
I promise to serve West Midlands Police as a Junior PCSO with integrity and honour.
I will try my best at all times to be honest and trustworthy and to help everyone that I meet.
Our Abbey Junior PCSOs will be collecting entries to the Recycling Poster Competition, organised by Action Pack with Recycle Now.
First prize is £500 for the winner’s school for a sustainability-themed trip, experience or resources, with second prize receiving £250. Ten runners up win a pack of eco goodies, including five eco-themed books for the school library and two seed bombs. Winners will appear on the Action Pack website, and help inspire others. Posters must be completed on an A4 sheet of paper. Entrants can use felt tips, pencil crayons, wax crayons, paint or collage. Posters must not feature entrants’ full names – only their first name, school and age. Posters must not feature photographs or names of real people. Entries will be accepted on a print out of the official poster template, or on blank paper. Posters must not feature brand names or logos.
All entries must be submitted to the Abbey Junior PCSOs by Monday 4th October for judging by the PCSOs on Thursday 7th October 2021.
Yearly Abbey Junior PCSO Focus and Autumn Training Sessions:
This year our efforts will be around road safety, clean air, well-being and health and protecting our environment from litter:
Training:
Week beginning 13th September - nominations for new Abbey Junior PCSOs and letter of invitation sent out for parent/carer consent.
Tuesday 14th September - Training Session 1 2pm Retreat
Wednesday 29th September - Training Session 2 12.30pm Retreat Filming for TfWM
Thursday 7th October - Training session 3 2pm Retreat and Judging for Recycling Poster Competition
Tuesday 30th November - Training Session 4 Sandwell Safeguarding Champions
Tuesday 7th December - Graduation Ceremony with representatives from West Midlands Police
Tuesday 14th December - Christmas Meeting and action plan for academic year 2021-2022
Our wonderful Abbey Junior PCSOs did a brilliant job last year in setting up and promoting the WOW programme, working with the charity Living Streets. The WOW programme encourages children to ditch the car and walk, cycle or park-and-stride to school. Children learnt about the benefits of walking to school which included benefits to physical and mental health, protecting the environment with less carbon emissions from cars, protecting the air quality around our school (saving our little lungs) and promoting safer parking near our school. Children who walked to school at least once a week were awarded a badge at the end of the month. Our school became the most successful school in the West Midlands and both Abbey Juniors and Abbey Infants took the top two places in the WOW Leadership Board. WOW!
Due to our great achievements and interest in the programme we were asked by Living Streets, who work in partnership with Transport for West Midlands, to work with a videographer and photographer. They filmed the children talking about why walking and active travel to school was a benefit. The material will be used for promoting the walk to school and safer streets message. The children had a fantastic experience and provided the researchers with a wealth of material (they were very impressed with how much they knew). What an exciting opportunity for our Abbey Junior PCSOs to help and make a difference to their community - it's the very heart of everything that they do.
Abbey Junior PCSOs Graduate!
I promise to serve West Midlands Police as a Junior PCSO with integrity and honour.
I will try my best at all time to be honest and trustworthy and to help everyone I meet.
(Junior PCSO Pledge)
This week the Abbey Junior PCSOs (police community support officers) became fully fledged Junior PCSOs after completing their training. In a ceremony held in school the children were awarded their certificates and Junior PCSO uniforms. Well done team! The children have worked hard to learn about traffic law; to support safer parking and road safety, worked with the charity 'Living Streets' to promote the 'WOW' campaign in our school (walk once a week), which promotes mental health, physical fitness and protecting the environment and trained on how to be a 'Safeguarding Champion' by signposting children to 'trusted adults'. All the new learning ensures that the child can 'help everyone I meet' in their new role. We look forward to meeting our link PCSOs from West Midlands police who will be visiting the team in the Spring Term and supporting us with our safer parking message.
PCSO Safer Parking Exercises in 2022
Our Abbey PCSO team have met to discuss Safer Parking at Abbey. They have presented assemblies to their classes and explained why safe and considerate parking on the roads near our school is important to keep our children safe. They have done a wonderful job! The Infant children have had assemblies this week promoting the hard work of the Abbey Junior PCSO team. We are now ready to complete our morning parking patrols with the help of some of our previous Abbey Junior PCSOs who will help with the training.
We plan to continue with our Safer Parking Exercises this term and will meet on these dates:
We will meet in the head teacher’s office at 8.25am and complete a patrol from 8.30am until 8.55am in the morning. If you would like your child to take part please come to school at 8.25am and join us for our Safer Parking Exercise. You can even join in too!
If your child goes to Playden, let me know and I will collect them from the club to join the activity.
PCSO Safer Parking Exercises – Summer Term 2022
Thank you to all of our Abbey Junior PCSOs (former recruits and current recruits), who have helped with the Safer Parking Exercise during our Spring Term. We are grateful to all the children and their families for arriving early to start the patrols. The patrols have been a huge success with safer parking improving around our school, particularly on the days when the Junior PCSOs are on duty. The children have told me that they would like the patrols to continue, so we would like to include some more dates for the Summer Term.
We plan to continue with our Safer Parking Exercises this term and will meet on these dates:
We will meet in the head teacher’s office at 8.25am and complete a patrol from 8.30am until 8.55am in the morning. If you would like your child to take part please come to school at 8.25am and join us for our Safer Parking Exercise. You can even join in too!
If your child goes to Playden, let me know and they will be collected from the club to join the activity.
Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips.
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