Welcome JTAs 2022-2023
A huge welcome to our 46 JTAs of Sholing Juniors. I'm really looking to our first meeting on Thursday 6th October.
Thursday 14th July
As this is our final meeting,we will go into the garden and pot up some plants to take home. You have been an amazing team this year and I know so many of you want to be JTAs again next year. Look out for the application forms in September. There are still a few jobs to be completed before the end of next week but we can complete those in break times.
Have a wonderful summer and enjoy.
Thursday 7th July
There will be no JTA meeting tonight as Mrs Manore is not in school
Half Term
Hi JTA's, I hope you are having a wonderful half term and enjoying the Platinum Jubilee celebrations. Just want to give you the heads up that the first week back we have to organise and promote Scooter Challenge Week (13th-17th June) and Clean Air Day (Thursday 16th June).
What would you like to do?
- An assembly?
- A Scooters Breakfast(as you suggested at the Bikers Breakfast)
- A competition of some sort - Bling your Scooter?
Have a think and we can put it together on Thursday.
Thursday 19th May
Babs Bags need to to be decided
Put Babs Diary on the website
Check Travel Tracker - can we find the most active travelling class? - Trophy
Complete Park and Stride Poster
STRIDE magazine will be going out next week - any articles? Use Google classroom
Park and Stride Letter - Google Classroom
Thursday 12th May
We have been so busy this week meeting every lunchtime, eating lunch together and doing various tasks - sorting out Babs'Diary, putting up posters in the Sholing Shack Bike Shelter and Sorting out the bird feeders you chose and bought with the voucher you won. A fabulous week, well done.
Today we need to :
Choose the new people taking Babs home
Check Travel Tracker( there is a new sheet to fill in)
Park and Stride Relaunch - See Google Classroom
Thursday 5th May
Put up the winning competition posters in every class
Babs Bags
Travel Tracker
The bird feeding stations have arrived(with the voucher you won from SCC for COP26 ideas) a group work with Miss Rickards to screw them together.
Take down bunting and posters from the Sholing Shack bike shelter and put up winning posters around the bike shelter.
Put up competition Winners on the notice board outside.
Thursday 28th April
Welcome back JTAs. Here are some of the events/items we need to start arranging and completing this week:
Collect the Babs Bags ( Go through this with Mrs Manore as we need to rearrange the resources)
Sort WOW badges into Zippy wallets
Deliver April's WOW to the classrooms
Check Travel Tracker - Are all classes filling it in? Does anyone need help?
A team to go around to each class and take down any old posters.
Poster competition - decide on a winner
Who was the most active class during the Big Walk And Wheel? Who won the Scooter workshop with Bike It Ray?
Park and Stride Relaunch
Letter to parents explaining - log onto Google classroom and the task has been set
Parking Advice Slips - Check on Google Classroom
STRIDE
We need articles to add to STRIDE newsletter that will go out on Friday 27th May. Log onto Google Classroom to find the task set.
Summer 1 Week Beginning Monday 25th April
I hope you all had a fabulous Easter holidays. We are going to be really busy this half term as we need to relaunch the Park and Stride campaign (we've been talking about it for so long!) and we also have Walk to School Week (16th-20th May) alongside all our usual weekly events (Babs Bags, Travel Tracker etc)
So start to put your thinking caps on and jot down any ideas in your JTA books to bring along to the first meeting of the Summer term( Thursday 28th April).
Also, I will be setting up activities on Google Classroom eg STRIDE magazine etc so please make sure you have your login details.
I look forward to seeing you all this week.
Thursday 31st March
A fantastic week with The Big Walk And Wheel, well done.
Bags Bags need to go out - they need new bags. What about putting the diary entries on the website weeky?
Travel Tracker Checker - Look at the leader on Travel Tracker, which is the most active class?
Who was the most active travelling class? Who will win the scooter session with Bike It Ray?
Airly App - We are going to check the air quality weekly and put the update on the website
Can we find the trophy for class of the month?
Thursday 24th March
Great work on running The Big Walk And Wheel everyone. Well done at the awards ceremony!!!
Tasks this week;
Babs Bags need collecting and sending out
Travel Tracker needs Checking
The Big Walk and Wheel - how are we doing any snags?
The Shop needs setting up - use the trolly, print off some posters, put up a price list
Bikers Breakfast - posters to promote it
Can someone print a list of events for next week to put up on the notice boards and classrooms.
Thursday 10th March
Let's get ready for The Big Walk and Wheel. Tasks that need to be done:
Babs Bags need reallocating
Travel Tracker needs to be checked
Posters need putting up in every classroom
Posters to be put up on the parents noticeboard
A powerpoint for Whole School Assembly
Posters to go up on the JTA board
Letter to parents
The Golden Lock Rota
The Bikers Breakfast needs arranging
Daily Bike and scooter count
The Bike Doctor
Bling your scooter/bike competition
Poster competition
JTA shop
Sign up for one of the tasks and organise the resources. Next week we will arrange everything, ready for the following week. Well done everyone.
Thursday 3rd March
We need to get ready for the Big Walk and Wheel 21st March - 1st April
We will be running:
The Golden Lock
A competition
The Bike Dr will visit
A Bikers Breakfast
We will need to organise:
A letter to parents
Assembly
Noticeboards
Information on the Website
Thursday 17th February
Babs Bags - Please can you go through the Babs Bags, take out any diary entries and put them in the Babs folder. Can you take a photo of the diary entry(no names or pictures of the person please) and we can put them up on the website.
Travel Tracker Team - Go through each class and check Travel Tacker is filled in. After half term we will hand out the WOW Trophy once a month during celebration assembly, where will you find the results for the trophy?
Posters for the bike shed - Fantastic posters so far, can we have some more please to promote both cycling and scooting. We will get the bike shelter ready for the Big Walk and Wheel(March 21st-April 1st)
Videos - Complete editing
Love Your Journey to School competition - All entries hand to Mr H tomorrow and he will hand them to Rachel Oliver and Bike It Ray.
Thursday 10th February
JTA To do List for this week
Travel Tracker Team to check Travel Tracker - can we start to look at awarding the trophy once a month?
Babs Bags - collect children's work and put it into the folder, add activity to the Babs Bags
Launch of Love Your Journey To School competition - a team to put up posters in every classroom and on the noticeboard at the bottom of the stairs
Edit Road Safety videos
Film Road Safety Videos Videos
JTA Shop - we have a limited number of Hi Vis Jackets, Can we set up shop next Thursday Lunchtime?
Put the Micro Scooters together and take photos for the website
Thank you letter for Bike It Ray and Rachel Oliver
We need a label for the JTA Tool box
A poster for the Bike Shelter to explain we have a tool box and pump if needed.
Posters for Bike Shelter/Scooter Pod Area - This will take longer than a week!
Thursday 3rd February
A huge thank you to Bike It Ray and Rachel Oliver from Southampton City Council who came and joined us to help clean out the Bike Shelter. The JTAs came up with lots of fantastic ideas for ideas to encourage more people to cycle and scoot to school. We are now registered for The Big Walk And Wheel 21stMarch -1st April, so watch this space. Also a massive massive thank you to Bike It Ray who gave us 2 Microscooters and helmets, we will put those together next week.
Thursday 27th January
Unfortunately there will be no JTAs this week. However, if you want a few active travel tasks, here are some ideas:
- A powerpoint for assembly to announce our super clean and refreshed Bike Shelter ( perhaps we could add in some before and after photos)
- A letter for parentmail to inform parents/carers of our super refreshed bike Shelter.
- What could we call the launch? Sholing's Super Cycle Shelter? What are you ideas?
- You could begin to write an article for Springs STRIDE magazine explaining what we are doing with the Bike Shelter, how we invited in Bike It Ray and Rachel Oliver to help us and our ideas.
Again, BABs will be resting this week too but don't worry the BABS Bags will be out again next week!
Thursday 20th January 2022
A massive thank you to Bike It Ray and Rachel Oliver on joining us outside for our JTA meeting. We were looking at our Bike Shed and how we can improve it and make it more cyclist friendly. Here are some of the fantastic ideas you came up with:
- Clean it! Wash the plastic on top and sweep out the leaves.
-Have a pump and tools for cyclists to use in emergencies.
- Have information posters attached eg M Check and L check
-Make some L and M check videos for our website.
-Have some signage eg banners on top.
-Decorate for events eg Valentines or The Big Walk and Wheel.
- When we've improved it then have a launch event eg assembly and parentmail
-Bikers Pancake Breakfast(fantastic idea Imogen) for anyone cycling to school. Maybe something for the Bike Walk and Wheel???
- A bench between the bike shed and parent shelter for people to sit on whilst getting ready to cycle.
All really fabulous ideas and we can start on these soon.
Babs Bags didn't go out this week as we focused on the Bike Shelter.
Thursday 13th January
JTA To Do List:
Travel Tacker
Babs Bags
Park and Stride Ideas
Garden Voucher from winning the the SCC competition - how can we spend it?
Road Safety Videos
Thursday 18th November JTA Meeting
Complete the Road Safety Quiz.
Travel Tracker to be Checked, please fill the chart for each class.
Babs Bags to be sorted and new people chosen to take them home.
JTA Shop- How did it go?
Air Quality Sensor – Has anyone been checking the air quality this week?
STRIDE – The STRIDE newsletter will go out on Friday 26th November, please send me any articles you want added.
Road Safety Video – Next week we will be making videos in groups to teach people how to cross the road safely. What would you want in your video? What is the message you want to tell people? Click on the link below for ideas:
https://www.think.gov.uk/resource/crossing-roads/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAgxZ-l5pY8
Well done JTAs, you are doing an amazing job.
Thursday 11th November
In today’s meeting we need to organise the following things:
-Photos of the JTAs
-The Babs Bags need to be reallocated
-We will have a look at the Air Quality Sensor
-Collect in the Road Safety Week Posters
-Organise the JTA shop to sell hi vis jackets in the playground next week
-Set up Travel Tracker monitors to monitor Travel Tracker weekly
-To continue to write articles for STRIDE newsletter to go out on Friday 26th November
Well done everyone, you are doing a fantastic job.
Walktober Competition
Just a quick reminder that all entries for the Walktober competition for My Journey Southampton need to be in by Friday 6th November. Any entries can be emailed to me and I can send them off to Southampton City Council.
Look forward to seeing your entries,
Mrs Manore
JTA Meeting Thursday 4th November
Competition Time!
It’s Road Safety Week On from 15th November – 19th November. We are going to focus on crossing the road safely: Stop, Look, Listen and Think.
Here is a useful video about crossing the road:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAgxZ-l5pY8
On Thursday 18th November we will have a Be Bright Be Seen Day, when everyone can wear bright clothes etc so when they are actively travelling, car drivers can see them.
We need posters to put up around the school so can you design a bright, eye catching poster to let everyone know it’s
Road Safety Week from Monday 15th November – 19th November?
Return them to me next week on Thursday 11th November and prizes will be handed out in assembly on Friday.
STRIDE Newsletter
STRIDE will be sent out by Parentmail on Friday 26th November, so keep your ideas coming in.
JTA Meeting -Thursday 21st October
Thank you for all the great work you are doing. If you want to send any JTA work to me by email then the JTA email address is:
Thank you for all the fantastic post cards I will send them off urgently to the politicians ready for COP26.
Looking forward to next half term. We have 2 things we need to plan and prepare for, STRIDE newsletter and Road Safety Week 15th-19th November.
If you would like to write an article for STRIDE on active travel then I can add it to the newsletter. Here are some ideas, it may be best to focus just on one and write one or paragraphs to explain all about it:
- What the JTAs do
- How did Bike to School Week go? Bike Dr and The Golden Lock
- Walktober – Remind them of the pupil pack
- Have you any suggestions for good ideas for going on active journey?
- Babs Bags
- Any Active travel information.
Road Safety Week 15th-19th November
Can you make a poster to be used in school for Road Safety Week We are going to have Be Bright Be Seen Day on Thursday 18th November. Make it bright and colourful, quick and easy to read.
You can bring anything you have completed to the JTA meeting on Thursday 4th November
COP26
Click here to find out more about COP26