Smarter Travel – Page 2 – Haringey Schools Bulletin

Moving Up and Mission Transition for Year 6 students

Arriving at your school this week: a copy of Moving Up and Mission Transition for every year 6 pupil, plus a teacher’s lesson pack. The teacher’s pack include: letter, lesson plan, 10 x maps of Haringey, 3 activity sheets.

As you may remember, we supply you with these resources to help you with the final term with your year 6 pupils before they are off to secondary school and gain more independence.

This is an important year for them, as they may never have had so much freedom and peer pressure and the last thing they want is to become a statistic. Incidentally, we have now included some information about Operation Fearless, we know that a barrier to independence can come from fears of this nature.

These resources are free of charge, but full of valuable information. Please try to support your Year 6 teachers, making sure they receive them and hopefully dedicate a day to look at them and follow the lesson plan too.

The Mission Transition competition is only open to students in Haringey – one of them really can win a bike of their choice! If they can complete the booklet and send it back to us in class packs, with your school name on the envelope, we will check each entry and choose one overall winner. The bike will be chosen from Finsbury Cycles and we will arrange to present it to the winning pupil in school.

Please send entries to: Smarter Travel Team, 1^st Floor, Cumberland House, 40 Cumberland Road, Wood Green N22 7SG.

The closing date is Wednesday 30 June (please contact Wendy Thorogood if this date is not convenient).

Using these resources also fulfils a fair few of those essential activities on your TfL STARS travel plan too.

Join the STARS forum!

Our Healthy Streets Officer and her colleagues invite you to their second online STARS forum! This is an online webinar where teachers and council staff from across London join to help each other with STARS. There will be information about upcoming national campaigns and ideas for STARS activities to support them. It could be the final few stories you need to reach your accreditation this year!

The next forum webinar is being held on Tuesday 15 June at 12-1.30pm. You can sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tfl-stars-school-champion-forum-tickets-154530895067

Topics will include:

Green Transport Week and London Climate Action Week – we’ll provide some ideas of activities to support these campaigns
Run through a School Travel Plan
Information on this year’s accreditations
Top Tips for STARS from September

There will also be interactive break-out rooms with plenty of time for questions and knowledge-sharing.

If you missed the first forum and would like an introduction to the STARS website as a refresher, the recording is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwlbBu_BtPE

School Travel Planning – TfL STARS

We are fast approaching the end of term and the school year.

We have offered you many supporting resources this year, these alone should help you to reach the minimum of Bronze accreditation, but you could get Silver or boost your school to GOLD

Things to remember:

Hands up survey, once this is completed, open it again and edit to tick the completed box.
The Golden Lock – cycle and scooter promotion resource
Walk to school week resources
Cycle training
Moving Up and Mission Transition, plus the lesson plans arriving this week
Air quality lessons
School streets
Social distancing measures – these should have created safer spaces around your schools
Healthy Schools competition for May – did you take part? That counts too
any funding given to your school needs to be documented here too.

Deadline for accreditation for TfL STARS school travel planning is the end of July.

Come along to Georgia’s online workshop

The next forum webinar is being held on Tuesday 15 June at 12-1.30pm. You can sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tfl-stars-school-champion-forum-tickets-154530895067

Or contact us for a 1:1 support session Wendy.thorogood@haringey.gov.uk

Complete a Free Online Cycle Training Course and get 15% off in Halfords!

Whether you’re popping to the shops or going to work, there’s never been a better time to cycle.

TfL’s free online Cycle Skills course will help you to cycle safely and confidently. So, whether you’re new to cycling or just want to brush up on your skills, we can help you take to the road.

What you’ll learn:

There are four modules to complete and each one takes less than five minutes:

Get ready to ride – gives you tips on getting you and your cycle ready for the road including basic maintenance and road handling skills
First time on the road – shows you how to cycle safely and responsibly and includes tips on setting off, road positioning and stopping safely
On the road again – helps to get you cycling again with advice on traffic lights, roundabouts and junctions, and how to share the road safely
Cycling with children – gives you advice on cycling in a group

On completion of the course, you’ll receive a code to redeem 15% off Halfords own-brand locks, lights and helmets! What are you waiting for? Now! Please share this in your newsletters so that staff and parents can take

About this activity (available on TFL Stars)

Suitable for year 5 and 6 pupils. Supports the PSHE and Citizenship National Curriculum.

TfL’s Junior Travel Ambassador (JTA) scheme encourages safer, active and independent travel within the school community, with a focus on year 6 pupils as they prepare for the transition to secondary school.

The scheme involves recruiting a team of JTAs; year 5 and 6 pupils who work to promote active travel and road safety to their peers through a range of activities.

To receive further information and resources email: halema.uddin@haringey.gov.uk

Funding for schools to open sport facilities out-of-hours to support healthy lifestyles

There are grants up to £10,000 available for schools to provide out-of-hours sport clubs/facilities for students. Haringey secondary schools will be prioritised in the applications.

For more information see the link below:

https://news.londonsport.org/news/funding-for-schools-to-open-sport-facilities-out-of-hours-to-support-healthy-lifestyles-428535?mc_cid=2b71fc9fc4&mc_eid=fc6798090c

Air pollution lessons and resources

The Cleaner Air Sooner programme (www.cleanerairsooner.org) is funded by the Clean Air Fund, and we provide free resources for schools so they can deliver simple clean air projects to help children breathe cleaner air.

There are 6 toolkit projects, and we are encouraging schools to get involved with either the Raising Awareness project, or the clean air route mapping project, for Clean Air Day this year.

So far we have had around 50 schools sign up to the programme, and we are now working with local authorities across London to promote the programme activities to school for Clean Air Day.

I’ve attached the newsletter / email copy we have produced for local authorities to use to promote the activities to schools in their borough.

And here is a summary of the two possible project activities for local authorities.

Clean Air Route Mapping project launch

In advance:

Encourage as many schools as possible to produce clean air route maps for their schools, with a particular focus on those on or near main roads.
Schools can download our mapping project toolkit and prepare for the day’s activities.

On the day:

Lesson: One class (suggest year 5 or 6, or the eco council) would have a lesson on air quality and schools (either using our video-recorded lesson, or using our PowerPoint presentation with reader notes if they’d like to deliver it themselves).
Look at maps: The class will look at a pollution map of their area and identify which are the most polluted / least polluted roads.
Produce map elements: In the second part of the class, they would produce the elements of the map – drawings of their favourite places in the area, background map of the roads (colouring the polluted roads red), logo or name for the map.
Share images: The school shares images / videos of the activity on social media

After the class:

Either a teacher or a parent with graphic design skills puts together the elements of the map.
The map can be printed and all children at the school receive a copy, and it could also be printed as a large banner to put up outside the school.
Raising Awareness and posters / letter writing

Schools commit to raising awareness about pollution at their school on Clean Air Day, and can use the resources in our ‘Raising Awareness’ toolkit:

In advance:

Schools download the toolkit and can send out the letter to parents to let them know the activity is happening.
Schools can arrange for a ‘Clean Air in the Making’ banner to be sent to them (see below), and take photos of some pupils by the banner. We can provide the council with the file for printing (we suggest the banner is sent a day or two before, so you have some visuals for use on Clean Air Day itself).

On the day:

Lesson: One class (suggest year 5 or 6, or the eco council) would deliver a lesson on air quality and schools (either using our video-recorded lesson, or using our PowerPoint presentation with reader notes if they’d like to deliver it themselves).
Activity: In the second half of the lesson, pupils can create a poster or video message about air quality, for use on the school’s social media/ school newsletter, and share with the local authority. Or they could write a letter to a local politician about clean air and schools.

The learning outcomes for these projects are that pupils will understand

What pollution is and what creates it.
What can happen to us if we breathe in too much pollution.
Why it’s important for schools to have clean air.
What you can do about it.

Lucy Harbor – Cool World Consulting / CWC Environmental

M: 07830 434033

W: www.coolworldconsulting.co.uk

We are also offering banners for school gates to schools that sign up (we have about 10 left), which are attached. If any are interested, we can send them one this week