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Pupils and staff at a Bradford school are celebrating after scooping a £300 prize for their role in a potentially life-saving electricity safety campaign.

Staff from CE Electric UK - the region’s electricity distributor – presented £300 of WH Smith vouchers to Immanuel Community College after head of PSHCE (personal social health and citizenship education), Mrs Sue Wilkinson helped review an interactive electrical safety CD which is now being show to school pupils across Yorkshire, northern Lincolnshire and the North East.

The CD contains a presentation, watched by all Year 7 students at Immanuel College, that teaches pupils to recognise and observe danger of death signs and a hard-hitting film about a young boy who dies after trespassing into an electricity substation.

A total of 32 schools helped to review the CD and were entered into the prize drawer for the vouchers.  But only one school could be victorious – and head teacher, Mrs Jane Tiller said: ”We are very pleased! These vouchers will go towards providing safety resources for the PSHCE department, library books, and also some resources for the learning mentors’ room.”

Paul Norton, head of safety at CE Electric UK, thanked the school for their participation in “a vitally important campaign” that could help save young lives.

He said: “We’re always looking for new ideas to illustrate to young people that the danger of death warning signs on all our electricity poles and pylons and on substations do mean what they say. Feedback from teachers and children help us to make sure our message is getting through.

“If the campaign prevents just one child from being killed or seriously injured by electricity, then it has been an overwhelming success.”

Only last year, CE Electric UK welcomed former policewoman Leena Markovič to head up its Stay Away, Stay Alive campaign across Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire whilst pupils in the North East continue to benefit from multi-agency safety events.

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24-04-2009