PUPILS from a Colchester primary school have been sending a message to their parents - urging them to cut their engines around schools.
Students from St James' Primary School were visited by a CAReless Pollution Zorb-ball to help highlight the poor quality air children have to breath when they are sat inside a stationary car with the engine running.
St James’ Primary School, along with other schools across Colchester, has received the new CAReless Pollution online toolkit which provides teachers with a range of age-appropriate activities and ideas for inspiring pupils.
Today is Clean Air Day - the UK's largest clean air campaign.
- Picture: Jo Lauren Photography
Air pollution is associated with asthma and other lung diseases, and young developing lungs are especially in danger of being damaged. Breathing bad air can also cause heart problems and stroke and it is linked to one in 20 deaths in Colchester.
Breathing in air pollution is the equivalent of a child smoking 1.5 cigarettes a day.
Colchester Council's CAReless Pollution is focusing on asking drivers to switch off their car engines when stationary because research from the University of Surrey has found that pollution inside a stationary car with the engine running can be up to seven times higher than the air pollution outside the car.
- Picture: Jo Lauren Photography
Here is a video produced as part of the campaign:
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