Traffic Safety

Dropping off and collecting your students can be a chaotic but equally a social time. NMPS encourages families to walk to and from school when and where possible. If you must use a car to delivery your family to school, please read the following signage examples. 

This procedure operates on the western side of the school in Murphy Street.

Please do not park here and enter the school. Kiss & Go.

This signage is in force on both Murphy and Harcourt Streets. These are the streets that run alongside the west and east sides of the school and where our school gates are located. 

As you can see that restrictions change in relationship to the peak times for our school, in the morning from 7.30-9.30am and at the end of class time from 3-4pm. 

Be aware that City of Melbourne traffic officers sweep through these streets.

Our school encourages following of this and the Kiss & Go procedure to ensure our community stays safe and that pedestrian and cars flow well. 

About walking to school

Source: Benefits of Walking, from Victoria Walks

...(T)he connection between walking and physical health is the evidence that walking to school is good for a child's educational development. A study of nearly 20,000 Danish children found that children who walked or cycled to school were able to concentrate much better than others for the first four hours of the day. Research in Washington DC found some correlation between the level of walkability and overall school performance.

Walking to school is not only good for a child's health and education, it helps them understand their world.  As part of VicHealth's Streets Ahead programme, children at four schools in the Darebin area were asked to map their neighbourhood.  Those who walked to school were better able to describe the area they lived in. Children who were driven drew their neighbourhood as a series of fragmented, abstract images.

Key facts:

Source: Vichealth

• 80% of Melbourne parents accompany their kids to school – 70% by car
• 40% of parents cite stranger danger as a key fear stopping them from letting their kids walk to school. Other fears include traffic (26%) and kids getting lost (12%)
• More than 60% of Victorian parents want their child to walk to school more regularly
• Only one in five kids aged 5-17 years get the recommended one hour of physical activity every day
• Childhood obesity levels are on the rise. By 2025, one in three children will be overweight or obese