Stephenite
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School Run Traffic.....any 'pattern' to it ?
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Julia9054
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If they are playing out at the weekend they are the responsibility of their parent or carer. In your opinion, at what age should the school allow a child to go off with just anyone or allow them to walk home by themselves without written permission from their parent or carer?
Julia9054
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All schools (not just middle class ones) have a safeguarding policy covering who is allowed to collect the child, what the arrangements are for informing the school when arrangements change and at what age they are allowed, with written permission, to walk home unaccompanied. If they did not, OFSTED would fail them
NickNick
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What age do they start to let them make their own way back from school? I don't have kids so don't have a clue, reading this thread has made me try and remember how old we were when we started walking to school by ourselves, think it was the last year or so of primary school, but then we were in a tiny village in France and it was 20yrs ago...
Julia9054
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Depends on the school but usually year 5 (age 9) with a signed permission slip.
I allowed my kids to walk home by themselves from the summer in year 5
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I think that was similar to my children. It was in the suburbs of a city but no major A roads to cross.
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I don't see the problem. All I have to do is tell the teacher at drop off who will be picking up my kids at the end of the day. It could be a relative, another parent, or after school club.
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Heltor Chasca
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The school run is a problematic byproduct of the way we live our modern lives.
Our dire road infrastructure aside: I try and do the school run on the bike daily. Over 2.5 miles it can be about 10 minutes quicker and there is no parking faff. Neighbours drive their kids 250 yards to another local school. All those families are overweight.
I read a recent stat that said, ‘If you took the least fit kid from an average school class in 1998, that same kid would be in the top 5 fit kids in a class today.’ Scary.
Anecdotally, I was doing about 5-6 times the amount of school sport than my two daughters (at school). I rode to school from about age 10 to 18 and I sailed most weekends. At 43 I am fitter than both my kids and they aren’t slobs. One goes to a Running club and the other a swimming club, but I still worry about their future as adults. One can only hope, guide and not hot-house.
Our dire road infrastructure aside: I try and do the school run on the bike daily. Over 2.5 miles it can be about 10 minutes quicker and there is no parking faff. Neighbours drive their kids 250 yards to another local school. All those families are overweight.
I read a recent stat that said, ‘If you took the least fit kid from an average school class in 1998, that same kid would be in the top 5 fit kids in a class today.’ Scary.
Anecdotally, I was doing about 5-6 times the amount of school sport than my two daughters (at school). I rode to school from about age 10 to 18 and I sailed most weekends. At 43 I am fitter than both my kids and they aren’t slobs. One goes to a Running club and the other a swimming club, but I still worry about their future as adults. One can only hope, guide and not hot-house.
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classic33
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Ten, with two younger brothers. Involved a walk either through a park having crossed an "A" road or a walk down into town alongside the same road. Then a bus trip home.
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