IT'S the beginning of a new term but parents don't seem to have made safer parking a New Year's resolution.

Outside Elmrise Primary School on Holloway Avenue, Bournemouth, we saw several parents parked on double yellow lines and the yellow zigzag outside the school gates.

At the junction of Youngs Road and Holloway Avenue at least four parents parked on double yellow lines on the corner, letting their children get out into the road.

Other parents used the turning to perform u-turns.

Head teacher Julie Barsby said: "Dangerous parking is definitely an ongoing issue.

"Every now and then I write in the newsletter that we need to work together for the safety of our children."

She described tackling the problem as "painting the Forth Bridge" - as soon as you make progress in one area you have to start on another.

She said that the school did encourage children to walk or cycle to school and that they had a scheme in which children were rewarded with a badge if they walked to school three Wednesdays in a month.

Year 2 pupils are taught about road safety and they are building bike sheds and will encourage children, once they are proficient cyclists, to ride to school.

Mrs Barsby said: "We do find that what we do in school motivates the pupils and we hope that they take this message home to their parents.

"Maybe the next generation will be more thoughtful."