1. Training

2. Welcome and Introductions
10mins
Welcome and Introductions:
Housekeeping)
Fire Drill/alarms/congregation area
Toilets
Photo consent forms
Icebreaker – b +S
Ask schools to put their hands up
Ask if anyone has been a sheriff before
One two three game

3. Congratulations on becoming an A*STARS Sheriff
What does A*STARS Mean?- Active sustainable Travel & Road Safety
What is your role? To tell everyone in school all about A*STARS and how they can travel actively and safely
Who will help you? You will working with your co-ordinators in school and one of us to help you with all your jobs

4. What is Active Sustainable travel?
What do we mean by Road Safety?
5mins
There are so many ways we can choose to travel. Some can be better than others for our health and the environment. We call this sustainable travel.
Talk about healthier ways to travel – Walking, Cycling, Park and Stride, Scooter, skateboard, then more environmentally friendly ways – Bus and Car Share
What do we mean by road safety? Ways to keep everyone safe – crossings, road lining and signs, in car safety, education and training Bikeability, Scooterbility, Child Pedestrian training (Togo Nogo).
Who do we mean by everyone? – Pedestrians, cyclists, car users Not just on the road but where ever they might be at risk – can include on driveways or schools, footpath, cycle lanes, car parks etc

5. What is the A*STARS Programme?
Helps reduce pollution and cars around your school gates
Helps you stay health and fit
Builds independence and confidence
Gets parents and staff involved too
Offers your school lots of fun activities
Wants to get everyone walking, cycling and moving more

6. Logo’s
5mins
What do we mean by the word logo? LOGO comes from the Greek word Logos which means WORD
A logo is a name, a symbol, or trademark designed to be easily recognised

7. Meet Dazzle!
On the left we have our logo and Dazzle – on the right we have our Sheriff logo and Dazzle wearing a sheriff badge

8. Your Main Jobs Notice boards Assemblies Competitions
Here are a few of the jobs that you will be expected to do to help promote A*STARS in your school

9. Notice board What makes a good notice board?
What information could you put on a notice board?
Where the best place to put it in the school?
5mins
Notice Boards: Activity
Sheriffs are responsible for creating and updating an A*STARS notice board.
It will need to have a big/bold heading, easy to read and understand, up to date info, size, colourful, creative- have fun with it!
Their first task is to put up information about the programme.
What do they think would be useful information to put on it?
( Sheriff details and photos , Logo, an enlarged laminated WOW badge – could show all of them for the year, Dazzle, Cycle Count, Walk to School Month, Monthly class winner for walking/cycling to school. Road safety information such as be safe and be seen. Prizes etc. Could put up children’s artwork or competition results.
Children will need to identify a suitable place/board where it can be seen by everyone.

10. Use the stuff on the desks to produce an A*STARS notice board.
Your Task:
Use the stuff on the desks to produce an A*STARS notice board.
You have 10mins to do this and show everyone how your team has done this
5mins
Notice Boards: Activity
Create a notice board using the resources on the tables

11. Three examples of notice boards.
First one has a Road Safety Theme It contains information about walking campaigns and has examples of children’s artwork. They have created their own ASTARS Logo

12. Assemblies The 4 p’s Permission Practise Prepare Plan Key points
Always ask permission from your A*STARS School Co-ordinators, Teacher or Head Teacher. They will be able to identify a suitable date and may be able to help you with additional supporting materials e.g. music etc.
Plan:
Think about your assembly in detail. Decide what you are going to talk about - look at your year planner to give you some ideas for each month.
Decide what you want to tell everyone and think of the best way of getting your ideas across. Should you use a DVD, a poem, do a role play, include a song or a power point presentation?
Prepare:
Make sure that you have enough time to prepare for your assembly. Do you need to make anything, or include props or posters? Don’t forget to ask for help if you need it.
Think of ways of getting your audience involved and keeping their attention. You might want to ask questions or use the assembly to talk about competitions or give out prizes and certificates.
Practice:
Remember that practice makes perfect and this will be true for your assembly too! Practice what you’re going to say in front of the other sheriffs or your family or friends.
Speak clearly, loudly and slowly during your talk.
The most important part is to have fun and enjoy what you’re doing.

13. 5mins
Bina and xx deliver a really bad assembly
Cover mouth, cough, play with hair, tap foot – look bored, wave to friends
Quite voice , look down
Show good assembly on Powerpoint

14. Competitions Announce winners and prizes Keep it simple
Set a closing date for entries and select winner
5mins
Plan ahead- Pick topic, type of competition, poster, poem, story – work with co-ordinator
Keep it simple- who is aimed at - consider KS1/KS2- are they able to do it
Tell everyone- How can you tell everyone – notice board, assembly, website, poster, newsletter, word of mouth
Set a closing date for entries and select winner- Make sure everyone knows date, have a collection box outside the hall/office etc
Judge winner with an adult/co-ordinator
Announce winners and prizes- What prizes, ask us to help, award in an assembly and explain why they won.
We have a certificate that they can use
Plan ahead
Tell everyone

15. Competitions Plan ahead Keep it simple Tell everyone
Set a closing date for entries and select winner
5mins
Plan ahead- Pick topic, type of competition, poster, poem, story – work with co-ordinator
Keep it simple- who is aimed at - consider KS1/KS2- are they able to do it
Tell everyone- How can you tell everyone – notice board, assembly, website, poster, newsletter, word of mouth
Set a closing date for entries and select winner- Make sure everyone knows date, have a collection box outside the hall/office etc
Judge winner with an adult/co-ordinator
Announce winners and prizes- What prizes, ask us to help, award in an assembly and explain why they won.
We have a certificate that they can use
Announce winners and prizes

16. A*STARS Website www.astarswalsall.co.uk 10mins
To help you do this we have developed a website with a sheriffs page to remind you what you should be doing and to give you some ideas and support
On the sheriff page you will be able to:
View a year planner to help you plan ahead
Find useful info on other websites
Gives an explanation for some of the key road safety and travel words and activities
This is your library where you will find advice and ideas on assemblies, competition, noticeboards ideas arrange meetings
This is here you can put messages on for pupils parents and others to see about what you have done or are planning
Across the top you can find more info on A*STARS, you can ask for help from the A*STARS Team and this is where you find the cycle count recorder

17. A*STARS Website
10mins
The 2 main buttons you will use are the red and blue buttons on the left
Firstly, find out what you need to do.
To help you with your activities, we have created a plan for the year for you.
Aim to do a few activities each half term

18. Sheriff’s Tasks
We have created a template to help you plan your tasks throughout the year.
The idea is to do one or two things every half term (6 weeks). We have put in some of the key events and activities into the planner for you.
(You will find a hard copy of this on your table as well as on the website.)

19. A*STARS Website
10mins
The red button is where you go to record anything you have done

20. Sheriff’s Tasks

21. Sheriff’s Tasks - What are you planning to do and when?
- Do you require support from the A*STARS team?
- What did you do, how did it go, how many took part?
- Do you have any evidence that you can show us?
-Click to show that this has now been completed
Planning
Support
Outcomes
Within the action plan we would like you to record everything that you do as an A*STARS sheriff in your school. For each activity we ask you to record on your action plan the following info
Each one looks the same. You will need to fill in each of the lines on the action plan
Planning – what and when
Support – Do you need poster or resources – e.g. a lollipop persons outfit
Outcomes – Tell us what you did
Evidence – This could be photos, scanned pictures, copies of poems etc
Finished – Click on this box to let us know that you’ve done it. Or if you have had to cancel it e.g. Scooter race that was rained off.
Evidence
Finished

22. Other Jobs Cycle Count Walking Challenge Helping with WOW
Training & Recruiting new Sheriffs
Go on the website and familiarise yourselves with action plan
Password/logons will be sent out in the next few days
Plan and deliver a launch assembly
Count the number of storage spaces for bikes and scooters
Set up your A*STARS notice
Website link

23. How the A*STARS Team can help
Regular meetings with you in your school
Give you fun ideas to help promote the project
Give you resources to update your notice board
Help you set up competitions and run them
Support you with assemblies
And much more!!

24. Next steps? Do an A*STARS Launch assembly Set up Notice board
(Walk to School Month - October)
Go on the website and familiarise yourselves with action plan
Password/logons will be sent out in the next few days
Plan and deliver a launch assembly
Count the number of storage spaces for bikes and scooters
Set up your A*STARS notice
Website link

25. Sheriff Pledge I promise to do the best I can
to help my school to understand
The travel choices we should choose
for journeys to and from our school
And how we all can educate
to make sure that we travel safe.
An A*STARS Sheriff is my role,
together we’ll achieve our goal!
Sheriff Pledge
Sheriff’s normally swear an oath the officially become a Sheriff.
Here is our A*STARS Sheriff Pledge.
Say sheriff pledge together
Well done, you are now officially an A*STARS Sheriff!