School Travel Plans

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School Travel Plans

• How can these plans help our school?

Anyone can be a School Travel Plan Champion
Parents, Governors, Teachers Headteachers.
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The main aims of a School Travel Plan

• To reduce the number of car trips to the school.
• To increase the numbers of pupils walking and
  cycling.
• To encourage car sharing by parents and school
  staff.
• To ensure the journeys can be made as safe as
  possible.

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School Travel Plans, how it can link in

• Encouraging more children to walk and cycle to
  school can contribute to physical activity within
  a healthy lifestyle, one of the healthy schools
  modules.
• This also promotes independence and citizenship.

• STPs can also fit within the 5 outcomes in
  Childrens Act 2004 Every Child Mattersbe
  healthy, stay safe, enjoy and achieve, make a
  positive contribution, and achieve economic
  well-being.

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Advice from other schools

• Introduce WOW to your school Walk on Wednesday,
  when one day each week as many people as possible
  walk.
• Close the school car park to driving parents.
• Identify a local park and walk facility.

• Introduce an incentive scheme to encourage pupils
  to walk and cycle to school.
• Mark areas in the playground that can be walked
  around, so pupils that travel by bus can also
  take part.

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How to produce a School Travel Plan?
Stage One
Obtain classroom "Hands Up" data from the pupils
by asking the question "How do you usually
travel to school? Answers will include Walk,
Cycle/Scooter, Car, Car share, Bus, Taxi
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Stage Two

• Send out a
• parent survey.
• This will provide you with feedback on choices
  of journey, and how these could be changed.
• It also identifies any problems with the
  journey that need to be addressed.

• Ask your school council to survey some of the
  pupils.
• Ask pupils how they would like to travel to
  school and what stops them.
• Find out their ideas for incentive schemes to
  encourage them to walk and cycle more.

OR
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Stage Three
With the help of Dorset County Councils School
Travel Advisers
Draw up a draft travel plan
Notify your parents, pupils and staff that the
plan has been drawn up and that during a two week
consultation, you would like them to contribute
with their views.
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The Final Hurdle
Now you have produced your plan, and it has been
signed by the Headteacher and Head of School
Governors, providing it complies with the
national standard.
You can apply for Capital Grant Funding!
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How much money can I apply for?
First Primary Schools can receive 3,750 plus
5 per pupil on the school roll
Middle, Secondary Upper schools can receive
5,000 plus 5 per pupil on the school roll
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How can our School spend our grant?

• Lockers
• Improved lighting
• Cycle Storage
• CCTV
• New path for pedestrians or cyclists New
  signing
• On site waiting area for pedestrians
• Wet weather changing facilities
• Trees to absorb CO²
• Remote control entry system for a pedestrian
  gate

Grants can only be used for measures within
the school grounds.
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And remember..

• Your School Travel Adviser is
• here to help your school every
• step of the way.
• We can provide you with
• templates, help, advice and
• resources for long term walking incentives.

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Contact details
North East of County including
ChristchurchSiân HolbrookS.C.Holbrook_at_dorsetcc.g
ov.uk West of CountyPaul CooperP.C.Cooper_at_dorset
cc.gov.uk
[phone]
For more information visit our website
www.dorsetforyou.com