The school are taking part in the Living Streets Walk to School Week 17-21 May. The children will learn all about the walking superpowers…..from improving mental & physical well-being to creating safer, less polluted streets.
Each pupil will be challenged to travel sustainably to school ( walk, cycle, scoot or park & stride) every day that week and will get stickers for their journeys. Park & stride involves parking well before the school & walking the rest of the way.
Parents! please help your children participate by enabling them to use sustainable travel to get to school that week. We have provided a map here of the safest routes to school through parks, as well as free parking suggestions for Park & Stride at the Brockwell Park Lido car park to the North of the school & near WigWam toy shop to the South of the school.

Walking Wednesday! Let’s make a walking bus…
On Wednesday 19th May let’s celebrate Walk to School Week by walking together in a socially distanced walking bus, enjoying chatter and community engagement en route to school.
Please join the walking buses below at your nearest stop! You will see our walking champions with signs leading the buses so please hop on board.
The first stops are by our suggested Park & Stride locations so those who need to drive can join in too. The buses will arrive at school in time for the first drop off.

Route 1 from Brockwell Park Lido
Stop 1 – 8.20 Brockwell Park Lido car park
Stop 2 – 8.30 Brockwell Park/Rosendale road gate
Stop 3 – 8.35 Rosendale/ Harwarden Grove
Stop 4 – 8.40 Arrive Rosendale road gates
Route 2 from Wigwam Toyshop, Rosendale road
Stop 1 – 8.20 Wigwam Toyshop, Rosendale road
Stop 2 – 8.25 Rosendale/Carson road north
Stop 3 – 8.30 Rosendale road/ Walkerscroft Mead
Stop 4 – 8.35 Rosendale road/Lovelace road
Stop 5 – 8.40 Arrive Rosendale/Turney junction

These were expired or unclaimed inhalers & spacers in the school office. Air pollution from car fumes is impacting our children’s health. Go to our https://cleanairrosendale.home.blog/air-pollution-at-rosendale/ page to find out more.

Leaving a car engine running while stationary means the car is pumping out toxic fumes to the surrounding area. Please turn your engine off to preserve the health of our Rosendale community – Engines Off, Every Stop!

There are double yellow lines going in to remove some parking spaces along Rosendale road alongside the bike track including alongside the school. The hope is that this measure eases some of the traffic congestion along that route by enabling a two way road. Less parking spaces also hopefully means less cars travelling to the area right by the school. We kindly ask that parents do not park over the yellow lines at pick up & drop off so the traffic can move along and so we reduce car fumes right outside the school. For any concerns or questions on these changes please email the local councillors or school office.

Lambeth council has published plans for a Healthy Route from Brockwell Park to Gipsy Hill. With measures such as new cycle lanes and bike parking stands, new zebra crossings, speed humps, raised tables and the removal of informal car parking spaces, the focus in the road will shift from cars to make space for pedestrians and cyclists.

With the suggested improvements, the area will not only become a lot safer for our children, their health will also benefit from reduced pollution and the new trees, planters and greening that are part of the proposal. 

Very importantly for our school, the plans include the roundabouts at Rosendale Road and Turney Road to be removed. Left turns from Rosendale Road into Turney Road will be banned to make space for safe crossings by foot or by bike. A stepped cycle track is proposed to run along the whole length of the Rosendale Road. These measures promise to hugely improve the safety and convenience for children walking to Rosendale from all directions. With Lambeth’s plans, a safer, cleaner and overall much more pleasant Rosendale Road is within reach! 

All the details have been published on the council’s website: 

https://www.lambeth.gov.uk/better-fairer-lambeth/project/healthy-route-brockwell-park-to-gipsy-hill

We are currently at the beginning of a month-long engagement period. There is still a chance that these brilliant plans will not be implemented. It is vital that Lambeth receives as much positive feedback as possible to encourage the Healthy Route’s realisation. We encourage everyone to complete the council’s survey and to leave positive comments:

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/Lambeth

Or go to one of the drop-in sessions to show your support for the designs:

Session 1
Date: Tuesday 4 February 2020
Time: 6pm to 8pm
Location: Emmanuel Youth & Community Centre, 96 Clive Rd, London SE21 8BU

Session 2
Date: Thursday 13 February 2020
Time: 6pm to 8pm
Location: All Saints West Dulwich Church, Crypt Hall, Lovelace Road, SE21 8JY

 Together we can make a real difference! 

The Clean Air group will be present with a stall at the Rosendale Christmas Fair on Saturday, 7 December. We’ll be there to talk about all things traffic and pollution with the community and to discuss ways to improve the quality of the air our children breathe. We’ll be happy to answer your questions and to receive suggestions what else could be done.

We’ll have a clean air related quiz at the stall, children’s games and detailed information on the various schemes and initiatives that we and the school are involved in.

You can sign our petition for a closure of Rosendale Road during drop off and pick up times at the fair and join our Whatsapp group if you’d like to get active too.

We’re looking forward to meeting you!

Lambeth Council is running an anti-idling campaign. At an anti-idling event at Rosendale in October volunteers informed on the bad effects on air quality when car engines are unnecessarily left running when stationary. A useful leaflet was distributed that busted common myths:

• Stopping and restarting a car engine after a minute causes less pollution than letting it run. It also uses less fuel.
• Modern car batteries don’t need the engine to be kept running in order to stay charged.
• It’s not necessary to keep an engine running for it to stay warm. It will stay warm for 30-60 minutes after switching off.
• Just because a car’s engine is running doesn’t mean you can’t be fined when parked on a yellow line.
• Modern engines don’t wear out due to frequent stopping and starting.

Please switch your engine off when stationary. Whenever possible, avoid making short trips by car and walk, cycle or scoot to school.

For more information visit:

http://idlingaction.london