What is school travel planning?
School Travel Planning promotes safer, active and sustainable travel to school. The key aim is to reduce the barriers to active travel and help reduce the number of children and staff travelling to school by car. It is closely related to dealing with parking problems at the school gate.
How can teachers help?
Your school management team will oversee the development and implementation of the travel planning initiatives, however the whole school community will be involved in its success! Teachers may be asked to conduct travel surveys with your students, or run activities/events and competitions. Some initiatives may involve delivering lessons on road safety and sustainable travel.
As a member of the school community, we encourage teachers to think about how they can travel more sustainably to work:
