Brake's Educator's Bulletin - July

Summer's finally here! We hope you're all having a fantastic summer term and have some great activities planned before you break up for the summer holidays. We've had a very busy June with the return of the Kids Walk on Wednesday 13 June and our second national Beep Beep! Day of the year on Wednesday 27 June. Many thanks to those of you who took part. We hope it helped raise awareness about safer roads in your communities. Read on for all of our news on both events. Don't forget to sign up for Road Safety Week 2018 (19 - 25 November) to get involved with this year's theme - Bike Smart. You can sign up for the latest news and be the first to access our free action pack - ready in September. Brake's Kids Walk On Wednesday 13 June more than 102,000 Kids from over 560 schools took part in Brake's Kids Walk to raise awareness about the need for safer roads in their community. Read more details in our news release. In Hull, all year groups got involved at Penshurst Primary School and went on a walk in their community to call for safer roads. Children even chanted "we want cycle paths" during their morning march. They were joined by Brake mascot Zak the Zebra, a local fire officer and local media, including ITV. Children were sponsored to take part, raising lots of valuable funds for Brake. Beep Beep! Day Wednesday 27 June saw our second national Beep Beep! Day of 2018. We launched our brand new car seat animation, aimed at raising awareness among grown-ups about the importance of using correctly-fitted child seats for children. To engage children and their grown-ups, we created a brand new car seat selfie poster. Youngsters loved having photos taken of themselves - with nurseries, schools and Brake sharing these on social media to remind drivers about the importance of making sure all their passengers are buckled up on every journey. Sign up for our next, and final national date for 2018 on Wednesday 21 November, during Road Safety Week. NEWS New baby travel wrap New baby brand Stars and Snuggles has launched a star-shaped baby travel wrap, suitable for three-point and five-point harness car seats. The company had the travel wraps crash tested at TRL’s testing center in June 2018, where they passed car seat safety regulation UN 129.00 (i-size). The wraps are available in four sizes and suitable from birth up to 18 months to help transport a baby from home, to car, to pram and back again. For every baby star shaped travel wrap sold, Stars and Snuggles is making a donation to Brake. Shop and donate at www.starsandsnuggles.co.uk Living Streets awarded funding Living Streets has been awarded £620,000 funding for its Walk to School project. It comes as part of a new government campaign to halve the number of obese children by 2030. [1] The charity's new report is full of recommendations for central and local government and schools to implement to enable and encourage more children to walk to school. Living Streets wants every child that can, to walk to school yet today just over half of primary school children do walk to school.