Whānau, please help us keep your children safe at the end of the day:
- Please don’t park on the yellow lines, when dropping off or picking up your child; even if they are just a minute away. It puts students and other drivers in danger.
- Please don’t be abusive to our staff if they have to ask you to move off the yellow lines.
- If your child is cycling to school, please make sure they wear a helmet.
- If you are parked on the other side of the road from the main gate, please don’t encourage your child to run across the road. There is a discretionary crossing 20 metres down the road towards the zoo which is safe.
Remember those hazard scenario diagrams in the Road Code, where you have to pick out the potential hazards and say how you would anticipate and then moderate your driving to avoid an accident? Our school exit would make a great one. The main gate opens onto a blind bend where drivers are putting their foot on the accelerator to get up the hill. There is no pedestrian crossing at this point, and as a novelty hazard we also have a pair of tramlines. The overflow Zoo/TAPAC car park also feeds onto the road by our main gate, and although there are yellow lines painted on the road to the right of the car park exit there are no raised flower beds to physically stop cars parking there.
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Please help us keep your children safe. We all have to do our bit!