Cycling
- Our busy cycling time is just starting, with Bike Week running from 8 to 16 June.
- Bikeability is delivering cycle training in schools around the borough. Please contact www.cycleconfident.com to secure your place, if you haven’t already. if your pupils have been trained, book a session for your colleagues – they won’t regret it.
Park-to-Park cycling event on 12 June
Join our fantastic Park-to-Park ride around the borough. Around 200 pupils and adults will cycle from their school to the start at Lordship Rec, before proceeding through Downhills Park and then on to Chestnuts. From here we will wend our way along Hermitage Road up to Green Lanes. We negotiate the junction with the support of our boys in blue and then cycle up the hill of Endymion Road to the Finsbury Park Gate where we will spend an hour having lunch and enjoying some team games and entertainment.
Back on the bikes, we will proceed along the Parkland Walk to Crouch End. Again, our bobbies will help us through the town and around on our way to Priory Park. Here the tradition is to cycle around in a glorious colour of hi vis, children and adults, ringing bells and smiling. The final stretch follows with us leaving the park and proceeding along Middle Lane turning into Nightingale Lane and ending up in the lower part of Alexandra Park. Everyone has an incredible time and the first thing the children say is, “Can we do it again next week please?”
Saddle and Sole Festival at Finsbury Park (our award winning), Sunday 16 June, 12 – 6pm. Finsbury Park Festival of Walking and Cycling Leaflet
Please promote this event to your families and staff. We will be offering lots of free fun cycling and walking activities, along with scrummy food and free face-painting and a bouncy castle.
This annual tri-borough event brings in fabulous entertainment from the early cycle ride starting at the park to crazy bikes and Rollapaluzza, massages, as well as the inimitable machines created by Cyclone Works offering spin-a-painting and other bike-powered activities. We welcome the expertise of O’Donovan’s and the Metropolitan Police to highlight the dangers posed by lorries vs cyclists and pedestrians. The police will be security-marking cycles, plus all three boroughs will provide free bike maintenance.
It’s Father’s Day – what better way to celebrate than to enjoy a free day out with him?
TfL STARs accreditation scheme – School Travel Plans Deadline 15 July
School Streets is the hot topic; priority will only be given to schools with an updated school travel plan.
As we start the last half term of the school year, now is the time for Action! Don’t be left out of the Wall of Fame! Don't forget: If you were Bronze last year you must re-apply. If you were Silver or Gold – check your expiry date; everyone must do the hands up survey.
We offer so many resources and initiatives that will help you to get far up the ladder of accreditation.
- Walk to School Week resources – awesome packs to promote active travel and pollution combating ideas (an evaluation sheet for the resource is attached, we would appreciate your feedback) Walk to school Week Evaluation 2019
- Walk to school month – if you took part in Hari Bear’s Second Big Adventure this can tick two items – International Walking Month and map reading and maybe even promoting road safety.
- Hari Bear for key stage 1 pupils (bear, wall charts, take home journal, posters)
- Walking trips – you do these for many lessons
- Cycle training
- Moving UP: have your year 6 seen this? Are they taking part in the Junior Citizens competition?
- Educational theatre groups The Riot Act CSI and year 7 Distraction and the Smart Brothers Zoopa Doopa
- Junior Travel Ambassador scheme
- Youth Travel Ambassadors
- Free public transport travel for trips
- No Parking banners, etc
- Stepping Out road safety books – Starting School for moving to reception
- Assemblies – road safety and Met Police
- Safe Drive, Stay Alive for 16+
- Child safety week promotions in nurseries
- Adult cycle lessons
- Pedestrian training
- Road safety sessions in children centres
- Haringey school’s Cycle League
We offer all these activities to all our schools. Check out our web pages https://www.haringey.gov.uk/parking-roads-and-travel/travel/smarter-travel/road-safety-education
https://www.haringey.gov.uk/parking-roads-and-travel/travel/smarter-travel/school-journeys for more information about our activities.
Please contact me to arrange a date to come and help you achieve accreditation, don’t be in the minority and miss out.
Transition from year 6 to year 7
This is the most vulnerable time for your 11 – 12-year olds. Please make sure everyone receives their Moving Up magazine and learns about the Transition competition. Each year six class has received a package of resources including a Moving Up magazine each a competition entry Moving up competition 2019 and a teacher lesson pack. Please email me if you need more.
Using this transition resource covers several uploads for STARS, including journey planning, promoting public transport, map work, transition training.
To book you travel plan update session, email wendy.thorogood@haringey.gov.uk message on mobile 07970 179439