Category: Smarter Travel

STARS school Travel Planning

CONGRATULATIONS! The following schools have received Transport for London awards for their outstanding work:

Lordship Lane Primary School – School of the North London Region for their work towards the School street project and Walking zone.

Coldfall Primary School – School of Excellence with their road safety promotions

The Highgate School – School of Excellence for their improvements and for encouraging 14% modal change to public transport.

The Haringey Schools Cycling League won an Outstanding for All award from Haringey Council for the incredible inter-school cycling league, promoting accessibility of cycling to many pupils not just a few.

All your STARS certificates have arrived and will be sent out to you in the internal post. Be very proud of your achievements, put them up, present them in assembly. MAKE A NOISE ABOUT THEM – tell everyone about your work.

Check out your school's status on the STARS site: when does your accreditation expire? You can now book support sessions with us to help upload your achievement and the initiatives you have put in place, such as walking teddy club, junior travel ambassadors or cycle training.  Anything your schools have done relating to travel please make sure you upload to STARS. As always, the Hand's Up survey must be completed, at the very least once a year.

Celebration event for primary schools

We are holding a celebration and training event for primary schools at The Civic Centre on 7 February. This will include a Dragon’s Den style event to bid for some funding for an activity to change behaviour. There will be two sessions for primary schools in the morning or afternoon. Join us for lunch in the Canteen at the Civic Centre. Bring up to 4 children and 2 adults, to learn about our current projects and pick up essential resources. Contact Wendy Thorogood to find out more.

Nurseries and Pre-schools

We acknowledge lots of amazing work in Haringey and think it would be good to get you all together to explain a bit more about the road safety work each unit delivers. 

Rowland Hill Nursery School & Children Centre is keen to create some bespoke informative road safety posters.

Woodside Children's Centre raises much needed funds by holding a whole school Wheelathon. 

Pembury House Nursery School and Children’s Centre has an excellent system for parent support and have been chosen for an Air Quality report from The Mayor’s Air Quality Team. We need a free venue and the support from the nursery staff to make this possible. If you can donate a couple of hours at your nursery, please let Wendy Thorogood know.

Safe Drive, Stay Alive

This event takes place at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre on 21, 22 and 23 January. Aimed at pre-drivers. it delivers powerful messages about changing driving habits: do not drink/drug drive, always wear a seatbelt, don’t be distracted – don’t distract your driver, peer pressure causes crashes too and finally, please no need to speed – Haringey is a 20mph borough for a reason. If you would like to come, please contact wendy.thorogood@haringey.gov.uk   07970 179439

 

 

   

Smarter Travel co-ordinator Wendy Thorogood was runner up at the 2018 National Sustainable Travel Awards in the Contribution to Sustainable Travel Individual category. The awards were presented at the Modeshift Convention in Sheffield on 1 November.

The annual awards recognise and reward Modeshift members for schemes, projects or other activities that support and encourage sustainable travel, by highlighting best practice, showing innovation and being inspirational.

Wendy commented,

"I was very happy to receive this recognition. I thoroughly enjoy helping Haringey’s school communities to actively travel to school. Helping to reduce the number of home to school car journeys is so important, as it improves our borough and our future generations’ health and wellbeing."

Find out more about the awards here (external link)

Road Safety Week 19 – 23 November

Although we should be aware of road safety every day, using safe places to cross the road and following the Green Cross Code, Road Safety Week offers a good opportunity to highlight road safety issues.

The Think website (external link) includes lots of excellent advice and free downloadable resources. Also you can use the attached leaflets and play this presentation at your assemblies too.

Road Safety Assembly

Road Safety leaflet 2018

Be Safe Be Seen

If your school wants to build a Junior Travel Ambassador Team (external link) please contact Smarter Travel to organise a training and information session.

School Travel Planning

By now you should have:

• Completed your Autumn Hands Up survey Hands up Survey
• Signed up to a TfL STARS celebration event
• Added your STAR kite mark to your website to celebrate your accreditation.
• Recruited Junior Travel Ambassadors to work with you on your road safety and active travel projects. 

Find Hari Bear – Orienteering in six Haringey parks

We are relaunching the Find Hari orienteering project in our fabulous parks, please try to promote this to the families at your school, or use it within you educational planning.  It can be included in Geography, English, PSHE, Science and maybe even Art. 

Take your children to our award winning parks for a chance to get out and about and enjoy some fresh air. Last year many schools visited the parks to Find Hari, some even cycled around to find all the pictures.

Down Lane Park Find Hari 2018

Priory park Find Hari 2018

Markfield Park Find Hari 2018

Lordship Rec Find Hari 2018

Chestnuts Park Find Hari 2018

Bruce Castle Find Hari 2018

Safe Drive, Stay Alive – January 2019

Places are filling up quickly for thsi event taking place at the Bernie Grant Art Centre on 21, 22 and 23 January. If you have students aged 16 and over and would like them to be included. Please contact us at Smarter.travel@haringey.gov.uk to find out more and to book seats and transport to this event.

Smarter.travel@haringey.gov.uk

020 8489 5351

TfL STARS – School Travel Plans – awards ceremonies and training

You have all had an email to invite you to come to the TfL Awards at The Oval. Your invitation included your school’s accreditation kite mark, which you can use on your stationery and website with pride.  Please contact me if you have questions or need support.

These schools have been nominated for additional high achievement awards by TfL:

• Lordship Lane Primary
• Coldfall Primary

Hands – Up Surveys

Find out now how your pupils and staff are getting to school.  Use the STARS programme to create a link to send to every teacher. https://stars.tfl.gov.uk/

Completing this is important to chart your progress on improving your active travel figures, aiming at GOLD for 2018-19 STARS accreditation. The Travel Plan information is used as evidence for a lot of the spending around schools and your input is really important.

Issues and targets

Many schools have been writing to us to complain or request improvements around the school. Please add these to the ‘Issues’ section of the STARS site as we use the reports from this to determine works in the borough.

Road safety matters

Safe Drive, Stay Alive   21, 22, 23 January 2019 @ The Bernie Grant Arts Centre

Urgent:  We are now booking places for Sixth form students at this very powerful, informative and thought provoking road safety information production aimed at students aged 16+. Please contact us for more information. 

• No charge for the coach journey to and from the theatre
• There are only four sessions available now
• TfL, Emergency Services and Haringey support the messages and information delivered.

Open the attached document to book a space at the events in January.

Sdsa Haringey January 21 22 23 2019

Contact me for more information Wendy.thorogood@haringey.gov.uk

Monday 21st January		Tuesday 22 January		Wednesday 23 January
		Greig City Academy	120	Highgate wood school	120
		Total Seats Available	155	Total Seats Available	155
Monday 21st January		Tuesday 22 January		Wednesday 23 January
Barnet & Southgate college	116	Fortismere	242	St Thomas Moore	105
	116		242		105
totals	159	totals seats available	33	Total Seats Available	170

Theatre in Education

We have booked three theatre production companies to deliver road safety theatre for schools in the borough. These will be aimed and KS1 and KS2 plus a year 7 production. Remember to log these on STARS if you accept one of them.

We are offering training to all schools for STARS Junior Travel Ambassador Scheme. Please contact Wendy.thorogood@haringey.gov.uk to arrange a suitable time etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are celebrating a record year for Haringey’s school travel plans:  68 schools now have a School Travel Plan, including 38 gold accreditations (out of 677 gold accreditations in London). Our schools have exceptionally high activity levels and teach their young people how their behaviours can improve their health and safety.

TfL has nominated three Haringey schools for the annual Top Schools Awards, which will be held at City Hall on 5 December.  The schools were chosen for their outstanding attributes and dedication to delivering the best travel and road safety activities to their school community.

Three Haringey schools are nominated for the following reasons:

Lordship Lane Primary School – School of the Region – North

The school is raising awareness of air pollution and road safety issues, working with the council to improve the area around their school through consultation with residents and parents/carers. The school runs after school play streets to show families what a car free pick up would look like.  The school has been working with pupils so that they are able to support and deliver the key message of sustainable travel as a first choice for the whole school community. 

Coldfall Primary School – School of Excellence in Road Safety  

Clare Bunston has a clear delivery schedule and very enthusiastically promotes active travel and road safety messages using notice boards, banners and newsletters. She uses competitions to make sure the messages get home too. Ms Bunston invited the Active Travel team to talk with parents attending meetings with teachers. She made sure there was press coverage for the launch of Coldfall’s new Walking Zone, showing families and visitors that getting to Coldfall Primary School was easier by foot. Their dedication to road safety highlighted issues relating to the local zebra crossings, resulting in a makeover for both, ensuring these are now an improved asset with flashing column and relayed tactile paving.

The Highgate School – School of Excellence in Public Transport

This private school has worked extremely hard to improve its modal split and reduce the number of cars coming to its site, achieving amazing results in a year. The school has used a range of initiatives such as promoting their school bus and public bus routes, car shares, ‘lift angel’ and a walking bus system to improve the travel habits of the school.   The school has investigated and promoted sustainable methods of getting to school to parents, staff and pupils. The school has embraced the changes, is keen to improve the air quality and road safety issues surrounding Highgate and is working hard to engage with everyone, including local schools, setting up a working party to improve local bus routes and encourage higher bus use.

Here is a full list of Top Schools Award 2018 nominations.

Schools of the Region (Primary and Secondary) North Primary – Lordship Lane Primary – Haringey Secondary – Oakleigh School and Acorn Assessment Centre  – Barnet East Primary – Gilbert Colvin – Redbridge Secondary – The Campion School – Havering South Primary – Herne Hill School – Southwark Secondary – St Mary Magdalene, All through school – Greenwich West Primary – St Mary's Bryanston Square CE Primary School – Westminster Secondary – Guru Nanak Sikh Academy – Hillingdon Schools of Excellence in; Cycling Ashburnham Community School – Kensington and Chelsea Carlton Vale Infants School– Brent Turing House School– Richmond upon Thames Whitefield School – Barnet Partnerships Charlton Manor Primary School – Greenwich Dulwich College – Southwark Prior Weston Primary School – Islington Pupil led project/s St John's Roman Catholic Primary School – Southwark Totteridge Academy – Barnet Meridian High School – Croydon Road Safety Coldfall Primary – Haringey Knightsbridge School – Kensington and Chelsea The Halley Academy – Greenwich Scooting Oxford Gardens Primary School – Kensington and Chelsea Public Transport Little Heath – Redbridge Phoenix Primary School – Southwark The Highgate School – Haringey Walking Deer Park School – Richmond upon Thames Our Lady of Grace Junior School – Brent The Archer Academy – Barnet

Long serving School Travel Plan champions Marlborough Primary School – Kensington and Chelsea Mathilda Marks-Kennedy – Barnet

 

 

As the autumn nights are drawing in, TfL has launched its annual Safer Travel at Night (STaN) campaign, reminding students of the dangers of unbooked minicabs and providing advice on how to safely get a taxi (black cab) or booked minicab home. Advice around getting home safely includes:

• If you use a minicab, always remember they must be booked direct with a licensed minicab company via app, phone, or at a minicab office. Even if It has a TfL licence sticker in the window. if it's not booked, it's not safe.
• The minicab company must give you a booking confirmation, which must contain at least:
• The vehicle registration number
• The driver's first name and private hire licence number and
• When possible, a photo of the driver.
• When your minicab arrives, if the driver or the car picking you up aren’t the same as in your booking confirmation, don’t get in the car – it isn’t safe.
• Black taxis can be hailed off the street or from one of more than 600 ranks across London.
• The Night Tube offers a 24-hour service Fridays and Saturdays on the Victoria, Jubilee, and most of the Central, Northern and Piccadilly lines. Night Overground services run between New Cross Gate and Dalston Junction and London Buses also run services throughout the night.
• More information on safer travel (external link)

School Travel Plans

Congratulations on another record year, with 68 TfL Stars Accredited Travel Plans:

• 38 gold 
• 12 silver
• 17 bronze
• 1 engaged

This is an amazing result. So don’t be left out, we hope that you will all be on board with this year’s campaigns.

International Walking Month October 2018

Your school should have received the Smarter Travel Newsletter and your invitation to take part in Hari Bear’s Second Big Adventure. This is to raise awareness of International Walking Month – October 2018. We need the confirmation section returned to us, to make sure you all know what you are doing and everyone is prepared and safe to do it. We have to stick to the timetable and route as it will be difficult to change on such a tight schedule.

Newsletter Sept 2018

Find Hari Orienteering in our local parks is back too!

Get active and investigate our fabulous parks in Haringey. We have set up orienteering in six of our parks.  Download the map from our Smarter Travel website page and go to visit the park. See if you can follow the map to find all 15 of the pictures of Hari bear hiding in the park.

If you are feeling more energetic, why not cycle to the park and find them? Each picture has a message from our schoolchildren to remind us all about healthier, safer lifestyles. We would really like schools to take a mini expedition to go and find the messages in the parks. There are so many ways this can be included in the curriculum.

Hari Bear Second Adventure Consent Form

   

Car Free Day Competition

We have extended the deadline to encourage as many entries as possible. Please send us your entries for The Day the Cars Disappeared. Your entry can be a story, poem or a picture. We want to make a book from all the brilliant entries.

Send your entries in the internal post to: Smarter Travel, Haringey Council,1^st Floor North, River Park House, 225 High Road, Wood Green N22 8HQ

competition poster for car free day 21 sept

No Parking at School gates banners

The banners have arrived; please email us with your orders as soon as possible.

 

For more information contact

Wendy.thorogood@haringey.gov.uk

020 8849 5351

07970 439 179

 

 

 

 

Innovate TfL

Innovate TfL gives Year 12 and 13 students the chance to shape the future of their capital.  Working in teams, they will design, develop and propose an innovation to London’s iconic transport network. Taking on project roles, they will learn how different careers come together to make an idea a reality.  Students can win work experience and prizes.

If your school is interested in taking part, please complete the registration form (external link) before the summer holidays

 Visit TfL’s Innovate website (external link)  to find out more. 

The TfL School Skills Pathway: Inspiring the next generation of transport professionals and empowering young people! Innovate TfL in association with Cleshar: the TfL Schools Challenge 2017/18

You can volunteer to be a STEM Ambassador or Inspiring the future volunteer

Innovate TfL