All aboard! Reception children and teachers with the Yellow Bus at St Peters School.
Young children had an exciting visit at their school when a Yellow Bus rolled into the playground.
The four and five year olds at St Peter’s school in Holdenhurst Avenue, Bournemouth, had spent a term studying the theme of ‘transport’.
This was the ‘fantastic finish’ to the term and the children got to climb on board the bus and quiz the driver – and some even got to sit in the driver’s seat.
The school is also celebrating its 80th anniversary and is having a Mass at 2pm in the school theatre followed by a cream tea at 3pm on Saturday April 29 to celebrate it.
Fiona Harwood from Yellow Buses said: “To make the visit more special we took our History Bus which is decorated inside with photographs of our company’s history.
“The children had some excellent questions for our driver and I hope they learned about bus travel.”
David Todd, Headteacher, said: “We are celebrating our 80th anniversary this school year and we remember that St Peter’s has always drawn students from far and wide and they rely on a good public transport system to get to school on time.
“Our relationship with Yellow Buses has always been positive and productive and we are grateful for their continued support. There is a weekend of celebrations at St Peter’s Southbourne site and a reunion on Saturday 29 April.”
At the special 80th celebrations at least one of the original students from 1936 will be attending and hopefully other former students will visit us.
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About Yellow Buses:
Yellow Buses operates a fleet of 131 buses and 18 coaches with a staff of 430. It carries just under 15m passengers a year with its vehicles operating nearly five million miles across the Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch and East Dorset area. Yellow Buses is part of RATP Group, the world’s fifth largest public transport provider.
RATP Dev
RATP Dev is a RATP group subsidiary set up in 2002 to export the Group’s operation and maintenance knowhow outside the historic network operated by RATP in the Paris region. RATP Dev now operates in 15 countries on four continents (United Kingdom, France, Italy, Switzerland, Algeria, Morocco, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, India, China, South Korea, the Philippines, the USA and Brazil). In 2015 RATP Dev generated revenue of more than 1.1 billion euros.
RATP group
With 14 million passengers every day worldwide, RATP group is the fifth largest urban transport operator in the world. The multimodal network operated by RATP in the Paris region, with its 14 metro lines (including two driverless lines), two regional express network (RER) lines, seven tramway lines, 350 bus lines and shuttle services catering to the region’s two international airports, is the largest of its kind in the world to be managed by a single company.
RATP group can devise, design and implement infrastructure development projects, operate and maintain networks irrespective of the transport mode (metro, regional train, tramway and bus) and develop innovative services to promote mobility such as passenger information, electronic ticketing, pricing and customer marketing. The automation of Paris metro’s Line 1, which was completed at the end of 2012, is a world first and once again has demonstrated the ability of RATP group to complete particularly complex projects.
RATP group has a workforce of nearly 60,000 worldwide and in 2015 generated revenue of 5,556 million euros.
