Traffic Group Progress

The Year 5 GATE group has been working very hard to solve the traffic problems outside the front gate. We worked carefully through these steps:
1 Collecting data, which involved counting cars, talking to parents as they arrived, observing driver behaviour and surveying parents.
2. Collating the information to determine the main problem, which we decided was that too many parents were driving their children to school causing congestion and safety concerns at the front gate.
3. Thinking up possible solutions to solve the problem.
4. Rating the solutions against criteria to find the best ones.
5. Choosing three to work through in groups. (We chose 3 as we decided that no one solution would be enough and a combination of all three would be better).

The solutions we chose were: 1. To set up a new 'Walking School Bus' for the children who arrive at the front gate. 2. To install security cameras recording driver behaviour in the 'drive through'. 3. To remove the angle parking and turn this into a longer access road to the 'drive through'.

We have measured, charted, drawn, photographed, researched, e-mailed, interviewed, discussed, recorded and written heaps to work out how best to turn our solutions into a workable plan.

We are currently publishing everything and Mrs Waters is writing a report, to finalize the project.