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Welcome Anthony Meehan School Travel Plan Team Gloucestershire Highways. What is a School Travel Plan? A document produced by the school Approved by DCSF, DfT & Gloucestershire Highways Considers all the issues relevant to journeys to & from your School
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Welcome Anthony Meehan School Travel Plan Team Gloucestershire Highways
What is a School Travel Plan? A document produced by the school Approved by DCSF, DfT & Gloucestershire Highways Considers all the issues relevant to journeys to & from your School Includes concerns about safety, health & the environment Makes proposals for ways to make improvements Brings together the ideas & contributions of different groups of people to help solve problems Links to the ‘Every Child Matters’ agenda, Healthy School status and the Eco School programme
What’s the Problem? Increasing traffic &congestion ‘We want to bring about a step change in home to school travel patterns to cut congestion & pollution, but also to allow many more pupils to take regular exercise’ Statement by the DfES / DfT 2003 Safety concerns Health & environmental effects “In slow moving traffic, pollution levels are higher inside cars than outside”
Consultation & involvement Head teacher School Staff Local community School Travel Plan Pupils Gloucestershire Highways School governors School Travel Plan Team Parents & carers
The STP Framework • Who we are and where we are. • How do we travel now? • Why do we travel as we do? • What are our issues? pros. and cons. • What are we going to do? • How are we going to do it? • How do we know?
Key steps 7. Monitor, review & update STP 1. Establish a STP Working Group & complete Section 1 Consult on STP with pupils/students, parents & school community 2. Distribute & Collect pupil/ student & staff questionnaires 3. Analyse questionnaire results 4. Identify problems, solutions & successes 5. 6. Agree targets, objectives & produce STP Action Plan
Walk On Wednesday clubs Storage lockers Safer crossings Improved school entrances Curriculum support Cycle storage Empty Car Park Day What’s been put in place? Park & Stride initiatives Parent waiting shelters Cyclist training CCTV Improved foot & cycle paths
National Curriculum Links • Data analysis – Mathematics • Sustainability – Geography & Science • Mapping Skills – Geography • Group discussion, presentations – English / Literacy • Developing STP’s – PSHE, Citizenship & ICT • Produce promotional media – Art & Drama