Heatherlands Primary School
Part of Coastal Learning Partnership
Heatherlands Travel Plan
Walk to School Week is back for another year! This May, pupils from all over the UK will take part in Living Streets’ exciting five-day challenge as they walk, wheel, scoot or Park and Stride to school every day of the week. This will take place from the 18th to 22nd May and encourages pupils to enjoy the many social, health and environmental benefits of walking and wheeling.
Heatherlands Travel Plan & Parent Parking Promise
Benefits of WOW
Did you know that 1 in 4 cars on the road each morning are on the school run?
Did you know that 1 in 4 cars on the road each morning are on the school run? WOW can start to turn that around by helping more families choose to walk or wheel to school instead. As well as the increased walking rates and the drop in cars at the school gates, there are other perks to taking part in WOW…
1. Instils healthy habits
WOW promotes healthy mental wellbeing by improving behaviour and concentration levels in class.
2. Accreditation
Helps schools achieve their outstanding OFSTED schools rating and Modeshift STARS and Healthy Schools status.
3. Climate Action Plan
Walking to school with Living Streets can form part of a school’s Climate Action Plan. A climate action plan is a detailed plan to enable your education setting to progress or commence sustainability initiatives and should typically cover four areas to align with DfE’s sustainability and climate change strategy, including decarbonisation.
What is a school travel plan?
School travel plans are simply a list of actions that a school agrees and commits to run as part of a whole school approach.
Many schools see their travel plan as an important component of becoming an excellent school, by supporting pupil’s health, wellbeing and safety. Others develop School Travel Plans to address specific issues, such as a traffic problem or because of an incident, while others are working towards accreditations such as Eco– School’s Green Flag or the Cycle Friendly School Award.
Whatever the reason, the benefits of encouraging active travel are clear and a school travel plan can ensure you have a long–term vision for support at your school.
School travel plans are not designed with the intention of forcing every pupil to walk, cycle or scoot every day. Instead, school travel plans should reduce the barriers and increase the incentives to active travel for as many staff, pupils and parents as possible.
What a school travel plan is: An opportunity to bring together teachers, parents, students, and communities. A way to encourage the whole school’s commitment to active travel. A tool to develop teacher, parent and pupil skills. A way to gather data and show outcomes. A commitment to encouraging active travel and to supporting a healthy, happy school environment.
What a school travel plan isn’t: A long, exhaustive document. Something that takes a long time to develop. A one–off document that doesn’t change.
We still need to find out what your travel to Heatherlands each day looks like.
How does your child travel to school?
Do they:
- walk
- scoot
- cycle
- drive
- get a bus/minibus
- get a taxi
This information needs to be updated on your Arbor records so that we can accurately collect data regarding travel to Heatherlands.
Please support our travel action plan by contacting the council yourselves if you have any concerns or queries. Beolw are some of the schemes and other contact information you might need.
Thank you
https://www.bcpcouncil.gov.uk/parking
https://roadsafetygb.org.uk/school-crossing-patrol-contacts/south-west/
