School Streets – Travel Plans and Parking Permits

We know this is high on the agenda for a lot of our schools. We need you all to complete your Hands Up survey on this site too, please take a look and if you need support that contact me smarter.travel@haringey.gov.uk 
The assessment of each school in the borough is about to commence. An independent company will be visiting each primary school over the coming months. They will be assessing the parking situation and the general geography and signs and lines for each school, in line with our criteria. This will help us prioritise school street projects to where they will make a good impact and improve the health and wellbeing of both pupils and residents. Only schools that are active on STARS will be considered for the school street project. Don’t feel left out, anyone can do this, it is a free service and we support you. Please check to see who your School Travel Plan Coordinator is. They can help with and travel issues you think need to be looked at. Check out TfL Stars to see the accreditation status of your school.
If you have any comments to make about your school, please send them to Wendy Thorogood at smarter.travel@haringey.gov.uk and add them as an issue on TfL STARS.

Road Safety Week

Register on the Brake Road Safety Website to receive your FREE Action Pack for Road Safety Week http://www.roadsafetyweek.org.uk/action-pack or for your younger students Brake Zebra Day https://brakezebras.org/beep.
If you would like us to come and talk to your students about road safety, we have a limited number of spaces for assemblies. Or you could use this presentation and JTA recruitment to deliver the messages.

Cycling and bikes

Please remember to book you cycle skills sessions for students from age 9 and above, even secondary school and college! Plus, parents and staff at schools can take part too.  www.cycleconfident.com
In addition to this we are working with Peddle My Wheels for the following amazing offer:
Public Bike Markets at Tottenham Green Market on 3 November and 7 December. Bring along your unwanted bikes or buy one from them. 

Try Before You Bike

In addition, we have organised Try Before You Bike, an exciting scheme supported by Haringey Council that allows you to hire a brand-new bike for from £10 a month until you either own or return the bike. A wide range of bikes are available including standard, electric and now children’s bikes– there is something for everyone!
Children’s bike – from £10 a month
Standard adult bike – £20 a month
Electric bike – £50 a month
Electric cargo bike – £100 a month
Adapted bike – £100 a month
Peddle My Wheels deliver the bike fully assembled TO YOUR DOOR or requested location (it could be your school) so gone are worries of buying online and having to assemble it yourself, or worrying about how you are going to get your bike from the bike shop to your house if it is too far to cycle!
On delivery of your new bike you will receive a personalised 2-hour cycle training session helping you to build confidence and familiarity with your new ride.  Peddle My Wheels also offer further guidance after your hire/purchase such as route suggestions or help with your commute.
If at any point you decide you no longer want the bike, you can cancel your hire and Peddle My Wheels will collect the bike from you with nothing more to pay. 
If you wish to sign up, please click through to Peddle My Wheel’s site for more information and to get started: https://www.peddlemywheels.com/try-before-you-bike

October is International Walking Month

A timely reminder to encourage all your new families to walk, not drive to the school. Please remember to collect the Hands Up Survey from all of your classes. Use this sheet or log onto STARS to open the survey and create a link to send to all tutors. If you can all do this now, we can complete our School Street Survey before the end of the year.

•  Hari bear could be hiding in your school key stage one class somewhere (we lost two of our special Hari bears last year – is he with you?)
• Contact Wendy Thorogood for the resources that cost nothing to get your key stage one pupils excited and moving, as well as reducing cars at the gate.
• Contact Wendy to organise Orienteering in a park near your school, this would be a fun extra walking activity to get all the class out for an Autumn Activity.

Accreditations

You will soon be receiving an email with the Accreditation Stars that you have earned. These should be added to your school website, used in emails and letters, just like the Healthy Schools accreditation

Training

We want to hold training sessions with you and your new Junior Travel Ambassadors (JTA).  Please use this presentation and application forms to recruit your new team members.
 We can come and present their JTA badges and help with their first assembly plan – this should be based on Be Bright and Be Seen. 

Vision Zero

The Mayor of London and TfL have an ambitious plan to have Zero traffic related issues by 2040.
We have put together a great bundle of resources, please contact Halema.uddin@haringey.gov.uk to receive them. Let her know what your plans are to improve Road Safety awareness in your school.

Safe Drive Stay Alive 2020

Important message to every educational provider for students aged 16 and over.  We are proud to say we are supporting Safe Drive Stay Alive again so hold the date. The events will be held at The Bernie Grant Arts Centre on 16, 17 and 18 March 2020. Send your applications in as soon as possible. There are limited spaces, so book now to avoid disappointment.

STARS Training Sessions

If your accreditation is expiring this year or your school did not get accredited last year, don’t worry! We will be holding training sessions throughout the year, but the earlier you get involved, the higher your accreditation.
Walk Zones and School Streets are the hot topics. So, if you don’t have a walk zone and want one, email me to book a training session. The minimum requirement is that you have completed a Whole School Hands UP survey and it is on STARS.
School Streets will not be considered at your school unless you have at least completed Bronze level activities on STARS for this year. We will help you every step of the way.

Cycling

Continue to use Cycle Confident to book your students cycle skills lessons for bikeability and beyond. Ask about the Adult cycling sessions too.

Bike Markets and Try Before you Bike

We have commissioned Peddle My Wheels to operate bike markets in our borough. Bring along your unloved/outgrown bike and if they can make it road worthy, they will and offer it for sale at a bike market – you receive the proceeds. Their website has dates of all bike markets available.
The same company facilitate our residents to try out a bike and pay monthly on a rent to buy scheme. Check their website to see how this extremely easy scheme works.

Cycle to Work Scheme

Contact us for the link to this fantastic in house scheme for staff who are paid by Haringey.

Contact:

Wendy.thorogood@haringey.gov.uk – STARS – Walk Zones – Orienteering
Halema.udding@haringey.gov.uk – Road Safety and Junior Travel Ambassadors
Dilek.sabri@haringey.gov.uk – Cycling and Active Travel Projects

School Travel Plans – URGENT AND IMPORTANT FUNDING

If you are interested in receiving: road safety productions, Walk to School Week resources, support with your traffic issues, cycle training, junior and youth travel ambassador schemes, road safety resources, please register on STARS and contact Wendy Thorogood for a meeting to make sure your accreditation is submitted by end of July.

If you are thinking that a ‘School Street’ would help your school, we are only looking at schools that are fully engaged with the STARS programme.

https://stars.tfl.gov.uk/

Cycling 

The summer Cycle_training_leaflet has been distributed to you, please circulate this to all of your school families. Cycle training is available for free to all Haringey residents or if you work or are educated in Haringey. Please contact www.cycleconfident.com

Dates for the diary for the summer holidays

Thursday 1 August – Youth Fest at Lordship Rec

Saturday 10 August – 150^th birthday for Finsbury Park, huge amounts of fun and activities to celebrate.

Wendy.thorogood@haringey.gov.uk

School Travel Plans 2018/19  https://stars.tfl.gov.uk/

If your school is on the list below your school will lose your school travel plan status from September! You will have to remove the certificates, plaques and kitemarks from your walls and website, as they will be obsolete. Please contact Wendy Thorogood urgently to arrange for a session to update your school travel plan. As previously stated, we are looking at every school and assessing their suitability for School Street measures. If you do not have an up-to-date travel plan, this will affect the scoring of our assessments. It may also affect your application for essential user permits for parking in a CPZ.

List of expiring travel plan accreditations

We still have time to do this 😊 but contact us now.

Below is list of schools that have not completed the STARS travel plan yet but you need to make contact especially if you want essential user permits and need assistance with traffic and air pollution issues or school street project.

Moving Up to year 7   – competition to win a bike

Moving up competition 2019

See Moving Up Magazine and our transition competition (attached). Your year 6 children can all take part in the competition. Learning to plan journeys is an essential part of becoming an independent traveller. 

The competition deadline is the end of June but this can be extended on request. Using these resources with your year six class will help fulfil at least four parts of the school travel plan.

Have you completed your evaluations from the Walk to School Week resource and SDSA? Please see the attached. We need evaluations for future funding of these projects please send completed forms back to us at : Smarter Travel, First Floor, River Park House, 225 High Road Wood Green N22 8HQ.

Walk to school Week Evaluation 2019 Wall of Fame 2017-18 Safe Drive Stay Alive Post Evaluation Form 2019

Mr Crocodile from the Walking Crocodile bus scheme was was out and about for Walk to School week. Here he is escorting children from St Ignatius Primary School.  Read more here (external link) about the Crocodile walking and cycling to school app.

We cannot help you unless you tell us what is happening and of course, how you are working with your families to improve the issues you raise. The number of cars on the school run is not sustainable and causes the pollution levels that are detrimental to our children’s health and development.

Contact Wendy.thorogood@haringey.gov.uk for an appointment to update your travel plan.

Reach for the STARS – GOLD?

The deadline for the accreditation for STARS is 15 July.  Please upload your activities as you go along, don’t wait until the last day. We are available to visit you in school or assist via email. Contact me now with a date to meet to progress your STARS update.

Transition from year 6 to Year 7

Your Moving Up books should have arrived. The parcels contain enough Moving Up magazines and competition entries for every child in year 6 – according to the census. You will also receive a teacher lesson resource pack. Please contact us if you need more.

Walk to School Week 20 – 24 May (time specific)

We are excited to tell you that we have created our own Walk to School Week pack this year. This has the very specific messages that we want to promote to all our schools. The resources arrive here on 1 May we will be sending them out as soon as we have collated them. These packs contain a Wall Chart, Hands Up survey, Passports for each pupil, plus stickers to chart success. Every KS1 and KS2 class will receive a copy of this amazing resource.

Walking Passport 2019 Walk to school week wall chart A1 2019

Cycling with Bikeability

We are gearing up for the summer term delivery of Bikeability to as many schools as we can. Contact www.cycleconfident.com to book cycle training for your pupils.

A mass cycle ride around Haringey will take place on 12 June – we will be cycling around the borough with about 200 pupils and staff. Contact Cycle Confident for more information.

Saddle and Sole Festival

The Saddle and Sole Festival will take place at Finsbury Park on 16 June – please promote this with your families.

Weekend of Play – 24 to 27 May

This is a resident-led weekend; any group that wants to put on an activity, run a playstreet etc, hold an event to increase physical activity in a local park can apply for a small grant, if the guidelines are followed.

Check the web page (external link) for application forms and information.

Contact us at smarter.travel@haringey.gov.uk