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