1. Training

2. 5 mins
Who do we mean by everyone – who else , governors, residents, police
Activity
Using flip chart paper, write down what skills a good sheriff needs
You are the main contact for A*STARS – need to:
be confident
need to speak up
good communications skills
Organised
Set a good example
etc

3. What do we mean by road safety? What is active sustainable travel?
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

4. What is the A*STARS Programme?
Helps you stay health and fit
Gets parents and staff
involved too
Helps reduce pollution and cars around your school gates
Help to get everyone walking, cycling and moving more

5. 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

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

7. Your Jobs Competitions – Design-a-bike Counting bikes and scooters
Creating and updating notice board
Deliver A*STARS Assemblies-
Be Bright Be Seen
Helping to find and train new sheriffs
Here are a few of the jobs that you will be expected to do to help promote A*STARS in your school

8. Notice board What makes a good notice board?
What information could you put on a notice board?
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.
Where the best place to put it in the school?

9. 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

10. 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.

11. Competitions Plan ahead & keep it simple
How are you going to tell everyone
Set a closing date & select winner
Announce winners and prizes
5mins
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
How can you tell everyone – notice board, assembly, website, poster, newsletter, word of mouth
Make sure everyone knows date, have a collection box outside the hall/office etc
Judge winner with an adult/co-ordinator
What prizes, ask us to help, award in an assembly and explain why they won.
We have a certificate that they can use

12. 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.)

13. Walking Or Wheeling- WOW
Not all schools doing this. Existing A*STARS schools are starting it at the end of September. There are 6 badges per year – one per half term. Children have to walk on average 3 times per week. This is how they record their journey – explain how they used wall charts before but now it will be electronically recorded. Go though the icons names etc

14. Walking Challenge
Aimed at children who are unable to use an A*STARS mode of travel e.g. attending Breakfast club etc.
Sheriffs identify children and see if they want to take part,
measure the playground to see how many laps equal one mile,
Advertise and plan a rota to see who will lead it each time.
Show the high vis jackets they can wear to do this.
Children walk once or twice a week
Sheriffs sign off their sheet.
They receive certificates for 6, 12 and 18 miles

15. 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

16. Weekly Cycle/scooter count
Click on edit button once a year
Click the bottom box each week to create the survey
Do the recording of the storage facilities once a year unless you have new storage put in.
Select one day each week to record your bikes/scooters it can be the same day or the day when you have the most bikes and scooters on the school site.

17. Find out what to do
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. Recording what you do 10mins
The red button is where you go to record anything you have done

20. Recording - What are you planning to do and when?
- Do you need help from the A*STARS team?
- Tell us what happened?
- Do you have any evidence?
-Tick as 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

21. How the A*STARS Team help
Give you fun ideas to help promote the project
Regular meetings with you in your school
Support you with assemblies & Competitions
Give you resources – notice board, prizes etc

22. 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!

23. Next steps? Notice board (Walk to School Month - October)
Be Bright Be Seen Assembly
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