School active travel policy
Suitable for all schools and nurseries.
Overview
Education phase
Category of activity
ConsultationTypes of activity
How it helps
- Supports gold accreditation
- Promotes active travel at leadership level
About the activity
Make safe and active travel part of your school's strategic plans. This will help to engrain the programme into the school's ethos, highlighting that sustainable and active travel is a key part of school life.
You could:
- Create an active travel policy and get this signed off by your Head Teacher
- Within your policy include the environmental and health benefits of active travel including air quality
- Add your school travel targets and plans to your School Improvement Plan to help raise the profile of your work towards accreditation
How to evidence your activity
- Record the feedback from your governors, senior leadership team and other staff
- Add your evidence in "my activities". Explain your activity and include copies of your travel policy, strategic plans and School Improvement Plan
Activity steps
Step 1
Involve your borough officer. Speak to you borough officer about your options for including active travel in your school’s future strategic planning
Step 2
Get strategic. Include TfL Travel for Life as an agenda item at governors’ and senior leadership meetings and discuss how you'd like to make safe and active travel part of the school’s strategic plans
Step 3
Check for success. Is safe and active travel now a feature in the school’s wider strategy? Has it had an impact on the school’s collective attitude towards travel to and from school?
Step 4
Tell your story. Upload your evidence to "my activities"