City hands out bus attendant cards to dedicated pupils

More committed schoolchildren are now travelling as bus attendants on school buses in Bocholt. Bocholt's First City Councillor Björn Volmering has now presented the ID cards to 14 pupils at the Youth Welfare Office.

From the 2024/2025 school year, the boys and girls in Year 9 will act as bus attendants to ensure safe and orderly school bus travel. "On behalf of the city of Bocholt and the institutions involved, I would like to thank you for your great commitment", said Volmering. "You are taking on an important and responsible task here for the benefit of your fellow pupils", said Volmering.

In the coming school year 2024/2025, a total of 34 active bus attendants will be working on the school buses. Since the start of the project, over 200 pupils have already been successfully trained as bus attendants.

The training of the new bus attendants took place at Café Karton in June this year. It was led by social education worker Julia Berg and Detective Superintendent Michael Wanning from the Crime Prevention and Victim Protection Department. The pupils from Year 9 at Euregio-Gymnasium, St.-Georg-Gymnasium and Hohe-Giethorst-Schule will take on their voluntary role at the start of the 2024/2025 school year.

Bus attendants have been around since 2005

The idea of using pupils as bus attendants was born in the 2005/2006 school year in response to numerous complaints about school bus transport.

A pilot project was launched in Bocholt in June 2006, in which pupils in years 8 and 9 received a two-day training course to become bus attendants. After just a short time, there was a need for more escorts on additional routes.