International Walking Month and Walk to School Week – October 5 – 11
Walk to School Week wall chart
October is international walking month and 5 to 11 October is Living Streets’ Walk to School Week. You can find more information via the Living Streets website where resource packs are available to buy. Please encourage your families to walk to school for the month of October to promote healthy, safer, less polluted journeys to school. We have a number of resources available for you to support walking month.
Contact Smarter.Travel@haringey.gov.uk if you’d like Hari bear walking resources and a new wall chart and please remember to take evidence of any promotion or activities as it all contributes to STARS!
Clean Air Day – 8 October
Clean air day coincides nicely with international walking month this year! Global Action Plan organise the day and have a packed virtual agenda that you can access with your students! Please have a look on their website for activity ideas and their free resources. There is also a virtual assembly taking place at 10.15am! If you attend, you could take a photo and upload this to STARS.
TfL STARS School Travel Planning
We are still urgently waiting for your Hands Up figures. Every school that has requested support from us, or received it, we need your active travel and car usage figures to be able to support you. We have great difficulty assisting schools when we have no idea what your issues are or how many people are coming to school by car.
The STARS Hands Up Survey is easy: you send your colleagues the link, they count how each child came to school in their class – it goes directly into the surveys. They then do same for the adults in the class. Your Travel Champion only has to collect information from non-teaching staff and enter this too.
The Golden Lock
We have boxes of prizes waiting for schools who want to increase the number of pupils cycling/scooting to school. These are generous and make a huge impact. We have filled them with 16 different cycle/scooter related prizes.
To qualify, you must complete your hands up survey on STARS, email us and we will deliver one of our prize filled boxes. Please contact Smarter.Travel@haringey.gov.uk if you are unsure on how to get started.
Cycle Training
Our cycle training company Cycle Confident has funds from us now. Please liaise with them to arrange training, we are very keen to support you with cycle training once again.
Additionally, we would like you to take up the offer of free online cycle training from TfL. This training can be accessed for free by anyone, and all participants who complete the training receive a voucher for free Santander cycle hire for 24 hours. Please promote this to all your staff and parents, as space on the adult cycle skills sessions at the moment are limited. The cycle training can be accessed at: https://cycle-skillsonline.tfl.gov.uk/