Don’t park on our yellow zig-zags!
We know that schools are always trying to prevent parents from parking across the yellow ‘keep clear’ zig-zag lines outside your school gates. This week, we are sending out some campaign leaflets that can remind families not to do this. Parking directly outside the school gate, across the zig-zag lines, is dangerous and puts our children’s safety at risk as they cross the road to get to school. We suggest you send a letter home with these leaflets as a reminder to parents. You could combine this with re-publicising your 10-minute walk zone maps and remind parents to park and stride.
TfL STARS school travel planning
We are still urgently waiting for your Hands Up Survey figures. Every school that has requested support from us, or received it, we need your active travel and car usage figures to be able to support you. We have great difficulty assisting schools when we have no idea what your issues are or how many people are coming to school by car.
The STARS Hands-Up Survey is easy: you send your colleagues a link to an online form, they count how each child came to school in their class – it goes directly into the surveys. They then do same for the adults in the class. Your Travel Champion only has to collect information from non-teaching staff and enter this too.
Call us to access the TfL Stars Site or send you a link to make it really easy for you. If you don’t have a travel champion in place, please email Smarter.Travel@haringey.gov.uk to get started.
The Golden Lock – cycling and scooting incentive
We have boxes of prizes waiting for schools who want to increase the number of pupils cycling/scooting to school. These are generous and make a huge impact. We have filled them with 16 different cycle/scooter related prizes and will deliver them with instructions.
To qualify, you must complete your hands up survey on STARS, email us and we will deliver one of our boxes. Please contact Smarter.Travel@haringey.gov.uk if you are unsure on how to get started.
Cycle Training
Our cycle training company Cycle Confident has funds from us now. Please liaise with them to arrange bikeability training for your students, we are very keen to support you with cycle training once again.
Online Cycle Training
We would like you to take up the offer of free online cycle training from TfL. This training can be accessed for free by anyone, and all participants who complete the training receive a voucher for free Santander cycle hire for 24 hours. Please promote this to all your staff and parents, as space on the adult cycle skills sessions at the moment are limited.
The cycle training can be accessed at: https://cycle-skillsonline.tfl.gov.uk/
International walking month and walk to school week in October!
October is international walking month. Please encourage your families to walk to school for the month of October to promote healthy, safer, less polluted journeys to school. We have a number of resources available for you to support walking month and you have your walking zones that you can promote. Contact Smarter.Travel@haringey.gov.uk if you’d like Hari bear walking resources and a new wall chart and please remember to take evidence of any promotion or activities as it all contributes to STARS!
Half term is coming up…
This is a time when the days are getting shorter and darker. Please find time, before the break, to remind children that they cannot be seen all of the time when out in the streets. They must take responsibility to look for vehicles, wear brighter reflective clothes and always use the Green Cross Code. STOP, LOOK, LISTEN AND THINK!
From nursery-age to adults, everyone needs to observe the rules of the road.
You will find extra resources on TfL STARS for home learning and road safety education activities plus Think! Road Safety has activities and lesson plans for all ages that can help
Plan for a Road Safety Week in November (16-22 Nov 2020)– some schools say road safety week is every week!
