Make Copthorne's roads safer PDF Print E-mail
Written by Paul Smith   
As traffic volumes continue to increase, there is ever greater concern for the safety of everyone, and especially of our children, on the roads in Copthorne .

Both Fairway Infants School and the Junior School are very aware of this and take positive steps to teach the children to be safe. However both schools are also aware of the high volume of traffic created by parents transporting their children to and from school.

Encouraging children to walk to school

It is the policy of both schools to encourage children to walk to school. This makes sense from a number of points of view; it helps to make the children fitter; it reduces traffic; it reduces petrol consumption; and it helps children to feel more a part of our community.

A voluntary one-way system

However, for a number of reasons, there are still quite a few parents who have to use a car to take their children to and from school. This can cause great congestion, especially in Church Road and Fairway. In order to reduce this both schools encourage parents to use a voluntary one-way system.
  • For Church Road this is that all traffic travel from West to East, that is away from Londis.
  • For Fairway this is for all traffic to travel up from Church Lane past the school towards Bramble Close.

A plea to all residents and visitors

Whilst parents are told of these system through the schools, many other residents are unaware of them, and can find it very frustrating when inadvertently going ‘against the flow’.

This is therefore a plea to everyone in Copthorne, residents and visitors alike, to follow these one way systems between the hours of 8:30am-9:00am, 11.45 am to 12.15 pm, and 2.45pm-4:00pm on weekdays.

It is once again stressed that this is entirely voluntary and unofficial. Neither school can accept any liability for anything that may occur off school premises.
Fairway Infant School Governing Body
 
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