POP-Up Bairns’ are the latest innovation to help keep children safe around Cardenden’s three Primary Schools.

The Cardenden Community Council have purchased three of the characters. Each character displays the key safety messages of “Please don’t park here”, “Don’t park on the zig zags” and “Show you care park elsewhere”

Chair of the community council, Dave Roy said: “Parking outside school buildings is an issue for most schools and Cardenden Community Council are trying to help the three schools in the area highlight the problem.

"We are delighted to launch this innovative idea in support of our ongoing partnership with our three Primary Schools and hopefully the signs will continue to promote safe and responsible driving around our schools.

"The pop up signs are eye-catching and we hope they will also promote discussion and encourage responsible driver behaviour where it is most needed. "We have had many discussions at the Community Council over the years where parents have highlighted their concerns regarding dangerous parking outside the schools, hopefully the signs will get the safety message across”. The idea came from work done by Constable Susan Martin, Community Ward Officer stationed in St Andrews, and Carol McDonald, at Signs Direct, so we have them to thank for this.

"We are also in discussion with our Ward Councillors with a view to purchasing more of these signs through the ward budgets so that each of the schools will have their own set of signs”.

Susan Leslie, head teacher at St Ninians, said: “We are very grateful to have the signs on loan until next Wednesday when they will be passed to the other primary schools in Cardenden.

"We are working really hard to make our pavements and roads safer and the children are now involved in placing the signs outside the school along with the janitor to help us all think about how safe we are when parking and dropping children off.”

Ms Leslie added :"The children have named the signs - Parker, PC Ziggy and Show You Care Claire.

"Mr Roy, chair of the community council, later joined in discussion at our assembly which helped the children become involved in the very important issues of their safety and our roads”.