School Children Take To The Streets To Promote Road Safety

Some 220 children from Servite RC Primary School, Fulham Road, formed a giant walking school bus on Wednesday 12 June when they took to the streets with their road safety message ‘Say yes to walking! Say no to driving fast!’ Led by Cllr Mrs Frances Taylor, chairman of the Royal Borough’s Public Transport and Road Safety Group, the children, accompanied by 38 staff, walked along Hollywood Road, Fawcett Street, Edith Grove and then back to school to raise awareness of the need to reduce speed limits to keep people safe. The children wore hi-vis jackets to help get the message across and ranged in age from 5 year-olds, in Reception class, to 11-year-olds, in Year Six. Cllr Mrs Taylor said: “It is vitally important that we do everything possible to make the environment safe for children to walk to school. Walking is the healthiest and most economical means of transport ever. I ...

Can we put a price on nature?

The Arts

Chaired by the BBC's Environment Analyst Roger Harrabin, those set to take part in this discussion include Professor Rosemary Hails MBE, of the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and Member of the Natural Capital Committee, Dr Tom Crompton, Change Strategist at WWF-UK, and Professor Sarah Whatmore Professor of Environment and Public Policy at Oxford University. The sold-out ‘Question Time' style seminar, takes place on the evening of Tuesday 18 June at ...

Royal College of Music Annual Awards Ceremony

Education

The Royal College of Music has a rich heritage. It was founded during the Victorian era in 1882 and its present home was built in 1894. It is a genuine conservatoire with thick walls and plenty of performance space. |The Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall is huge with wonderful acoustics. The Britten Theatre is suitable for the performance of opera. The College is a place of inspiration, many past students have ...

Lambeth school to devise and perform new opera about the first dog in space

The Arts

Pupils at Reay Primary School in Oval are working with English Touring Opera on Laika in Lambeth, a sequel to the company’s currently-touring space opera for young people, Laika the Spacedog. The opera has been devised during a series of workshops with five Key Stage 2 classes, involving the creation of the design, the words, the story and the music of the piece. Children from St Stephen’s, Wyvil and Vauxhall primary ...