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Back to Safe Routes projects in Hackney
William Patten JMI School We have worked with William Patten school from the start of the project. The help and support of the staff has been great and we hope that the school is gaining as much from their contribution to Safe Routes to School as we have at Groundwork Hackney and that Hackney Council will pitch in with help and support to make some of the aspirations of the school a reality Some examples of our work with the school: Literacy resource Cycle training Healthy schools week Recent Class work	the recently completed cycle-racks and mural completed by the children at Wiilliam Patten school in Stoke Newington Kids questions to official bodies
the back gate at Grasmere school that will be upgraded to provide a new, traffic-free entrance to the school	Grasmere JMI School In April we started working with Grasmere school, Albion Road, Stoke Newington, a road noted for being busy and hazardous in the mornings when children are arriving at the school. Working with the children, staff, parents and governors in the school an independant landscape architect working in conjunction with Theories landscape architects  has conducted a consultation into possible solutions. Focusing upon improvements to the entrances to the school and to Church walk which runs behind the school and is presently not used as an access. More information
Stoke Newington Secondary school We have worked with Stoke Newington School since the start of the project we have had some success and we are presently developing an exciting project for the autumn and winter-terms to look at further improvements to their school grounds. Below you will find some details of projects carried out at the school. Healthy schools week  2000	View of Stoke Newington Secondary School from Clissold Road
	Sir Thomas Abney Primary school One of the difficulties of developing and progressing a short-life, pilot project like Safe Routes to School in Hackney is that once the word gets around then things really start to take off and the phone rings off the hook just as the project is entering its final phase. Parents from Sir Thomas Abney School heard about the cycling training that was taking place in other schools and asked us to help there. We are now also working with them to improve cycle-parking and walking-links. Off their own bat parents also wrote to the Hackney LCC about the project and they wrote it up in their newsletter