Pupils from All Saints Primary School in Didcot dressed in black and white to mark their safer start to 2008. The 400 youngsters wore black and white clothes to celebrate their new zebra crossing outside their school in Tamar Way, Ladygrove. Each child also brought £1 into school to raise money for a local charity which supports young carers.
Jane Hartley, healthy schools co-ordinator, said: "We have been campaigning for some time to make the front entrance of the school much safer. The zebra crossing is by the school gate which means it is safer for children, and encourages people not to turn their cars around at the gate. It is a big improvement for an on-going problem because we have lots of cars in the morning and afternoon which sometimes cannot see children clearly."
Oxfordshire County Council completed the work on the new crossing last term.
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