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To begin developing your School Travel Plan we advise you initially get in contact with your local School Travel Advisor. They will be able to explain the process and where possible come out to your school, provide you with any additional guidance and answer any questions you may have.
Unfortunately with the high level of demand on the advisors they are not always able to come out and see you as quickly as they would like. We have therefore put together a ‘First Steps pack’ available to download from here that will assist you in beginning the development of a travel plan. This will involve you starting to progress the collection of data and begin consultation with various stakeholders in order to identify the local travel issues.
There are a number of resources available for you to download from this page including a general layout template for you to use as a guide, useful website links and survey templates to help you get started.
| HealthySchools Validation At present a large number of schools are working on getting Healthy Schools validation. In order to meet this part of the criteria, we are recommending that schools complete all of the ‘First Steps’. Completing these first steps will assume you have begun work on your Travel Plan and will be expecting to complete and submit the final plan to us within the following 12 months from starting.
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Select from the list below, your type of school. This will take you to a section tailored to assisting you in developing your travel plan.
Information and resources to assist Primary Schools in developing a Travel Plan
| First Steps Here you will find all the information required to start collecting information for your Travel Plan before your local School Travel Advisor comes to visit you. 1. Conduct a hands up survey with all pupils present on one particular day. Please make sure you don’t change the categories, and check that you ask both questions, no matter how young the children are. Also keep a note of the date the survey was carried out, how many pupils took part and how many were absent. Click here to download the pupil hands up survey template 2. Conduct a staff survey. Again please note date and response rates, feel free to adapt parts of this survey to suit your needs, although the major emphasis on how people travel and what would make them change should remain. Click here to download the staff survey template 3. Send out a survey to parents. We would suggest sending one survey per family. Again, note how many were sent out, how many are returned and the rough date. Please adapt the suggestions for change in question 3 to suit your school’s situation. Click here to download the parents survey template 4. Gathering further evidence for your travel plan. Form a working party to include various people: e.g. governor, parent, community police officer or warden, members of School Council, local resident or member of Parish Council. You might think it appropriate to send a letter or leaflet out to local residents or put a notice in a parish magazine or local shop to explain what the school is doing. The group needs to draw together all the information concerning factors which affect people travelling to school. Take minutes or brief notes at any meetings you have. Click here to download a residents survey template These steps need to be completed for HealthySchools validation
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This template provides you with a guide to the preferred layout of a travel plan and what essential and desired pieces of information need to be included. The DCSF are keen to see individuality when they assess them every March. This template should be used for reference purposes only.
The transport information provided in each School Travel Plan should give enough detail that parents, staff and visitors can make informed choices about how to travel to and from school. This guidance recommends what should be included in your School Travel Plan, with useful website links and examples. This information should be in the introduction section of the plan.
Ideas for Primary School Action Plan
Here you will find a range of ideas for inclusion in the action plan. This can be used to give ideas for actions that can be implemented to help achieve the objectives and targets of your School Travel Plan. Included are actions for walking, cycling, scooters, public transport, car sharing, safety of the school site, road safety, curriculum, publicity and continuity, and Highways issues.
When we look through a School Travel Plan that has been submitted to us, this is the check list we use to ensure it has all the required elements. You might find it helpful to go through your finished plan with this list to check you have included all the essential information before you submit it to your School Travel Plan Advisor.
Across the county we offer a number of different walking initiatives where schools can buy specially created resources to encourage children to walk to school. Take a look at what is on offer by downloading our walking initiatives brochure. Get in touch with the Kent & Medway Walking Bus Group to order resources or for further information speak to your local Travel Advisor.
Schools thinking of setting up a Walking Bus should take a look at this summary, explaining the processes required in order to get your Walking Bus off the ground. This is only a overview and those schools interested in a Walking Bus should contact either your local School Travel Advisor or the Kent & Medway Walking Bus Group in order to receive more informative guidance and support.
Information and resources to assist Secondary Schools in developing a Travel Plan
First Steps
Here you will find all the information required to start collecting information for your Travel Plan before your local School Travel Advisor comes to visit you.
1. Conduct a hands up survey with all pupils present on one particular day.
Please make sure you don’t change the categories. All pupils (including 6th form) must be surveyed. Also keep a note of the date the survey was carried out, how many pupils took part and how many were absent.
Click here to download the pupil hands up survey template
2. Conduct a staff survey.
Again please note date and response rates, feel free to adapt parts of this survey to suit your needs, although the major emphasis on how people travel and what would make them change should remain.
Click here to download the staff survey template
3. Conduct a more detailed survey of pupils.
There are two options for selecting the
Click here to download the detailed pupil survey template
4. Gathering further evidence for your travel plan.
Form a working party to include various people: e.g. governor, parent, community police officer or warden, members of School Council, local resident or member of Parish Council. You might think it appropriate to send a letter or leaflet out to local residents or put a notice in a parish magazine or local shop to explain what the school is doing. The group needs to draw together all the information concerning factors which affect people travelling to school. Take minutes or brief notes at any meetings you have.
Click here to download a residents survey template
These steps need to be completed for HealthySchools validation
pupils surveyed. You might like to survey one class from each year group ors elect a particular year group (KS3 pupils will obviously benefit more from any future actions and are more likely to be influenced to change their modes of transport). Your ICT experts might like to use this as an opportunity to teach pupils how to set up an online survey! Again, note how many were sent out, how many are returned and the rough date.
School Travel Plan Template This template provides you with a guide to the preferred layout of a travel plan and what essential and desired pieces of information need to be included. The DCSF are keen to see individuality when they assess them every March. This template should be used for reference purposes only.
The transport information provided in each School Travel Plan should give enough detail that parents, staff and visitors can make informed choices about how to travel to and from school. This guidance recommends what should be included in your School Travel Plan, with useful website links and examples. This information should be in the introduction section of the plan.
Ideas for Secondary School Action Plan
Here you will find a range of ideas for inclusion in the action plan. This can be used to give ideas for actions that can be implemented to help achieve the objectives and targets of your School Travel Plan. Included are actions for walking, cycling, public transport, car sharing, road safety, personal safety, curriculum, publicity and continuity, and Highways issues.
When we look through a School Travel Plan that has been submitted to us, this is the check list we use to ensure it has all the required elements. You might find it helpful to go through your finished plan with this list to check you have included all the essential information before you submit it to your School Travel Plan Advisor.
Information and resources to assist Special Schools in developing a Travel Plan
First Steps
Here you will find all the information required to start collecting information for your Travel Plan before your local School Travel Advisor comes to visit you.
1. Conduct a hands up survey with all pupils present on one particular day.
Ideally use the hands up survey available to download. However, according to the level of your pupils' needs, you might need to provide the information by using school travel records, and omit the preferred mode of travel if this is not appropriate.
Click here to download the pupil hands up survey template
2. Conduct a staff survey.
Please note date and response rates, feel free to adapt parts of this survey to suit your needs, although the major emphasis on how people travel and what would make them change should remain.
Click here to download the staff survey template
3. Send out a survey to parents.
We would suggest sending one survey per family. Again, note how many were sent out, how many are returned and the rough date. Please adapt the suggestions for change in question 3 to suit your school’s situation.
Click here to download the parents survey template
4. Gathering further evidence for your travel plan.
Form a working party to include various people: e.g. governor, parent, community police officer or warden, members of School Council, local resident or member of Parish Council. You might think it appropriate to send a letter or leaflet out to local residents or put a notice in a parish magazine or local shop to explain what the school is doing. The group needs to draw together all the information concerning factors which affect people travelling to school. Take minutes or brief notes at any meetings you have.
Click here to download a residents survey template
These steps need to be completed for HealthySchools validation
School Travel Plan Template This template provides you with a guide to the preferred layout of a travel plan and what essential and desired pieces of information need to be included. The DCSF are keen to see individuality when they assess them every March. This template should be used for reference purposes only.
The transport information provided in each School Travel Plan should give enough detail that parents, staff and visitors can make informed choices about how to travel to and from school. This guidance recommends what should be included in your School Travel Plan, with useful website links and examples. This information should be in the introduction section of the plan.
Ideas for Special School Action Plan
Here you will find a range of ideas for inclusion in the action plan. This can be used to give ideas for actions that can be implemented to help achieve the objectives and targets of your School Travel Plan. Included are actions for walking for staff and pupils (if feasible), cycling for staff and pupils (if feasible), public transport, car sharing, safety of the school site, road safety, curriculum, taxis, individual travel plans, publicity and continuity, and Highways issues.
When we look through a School Travel Plan that has been submitted to us, this is the check list we use to ensure it has all the required elements. You might find it helpful to go through your finished plan with this list to check you have included all the essential information before you submit it to your School Travel Plan Advisor.
This template provides you with a guide to the preferred layout of a travel plan and what essential and desired pieces of information need to be included. The DCSF are keen to see individuality when they assess them every March. This template should be used for reference purposes only.
The transport information provided in each School Travel Plan should give enough detail that parents, staff and visitors can make informed choices about how to travel to and from school. This guidance recommends what should be included in your School Travel Plan, with useful website links and examples. This information should be in the introduction section of the plan.
Ideas for Primary School Action Plan
Here you will find a range of ideas for inclusion in the action plan. This can be used to give ideas for actions that can be implemented to help achieve the objectives and targets of your School Travel Plan. Included are actions for walking, cycling, scooters, public transport, car sharing, safety of the school site, road safety, curriculum, publicity and continuity, and Highways issues.
When we look through a School Travel Plan that has been submitted to us, this is the check list we use to ensure it has all the required elements. You might find it helpful to go through your finished plan with this list to check you have included all the essential information before you submit it to your School Travel Plan Advisor.
Across the county we offer a number of different walking initiatives where schools can buy specially created resources to encourage children to walk to school. Take a look at what is on offer by downloading our walking initiatives brochure. Get in touch with the Kent & Medway Walking Bus Group to order resources or for further information speak to your local Travel Advisor.
Schools thinking of setting up a Walking Bus should take a look at this summary, explaining the processes required in order to get your Walking Bus off the ground. This is only a overview and those schools interested in a Walking Bus should contact either your local School Travel Advisor or the Kent & Medway Walking Bus Group in order to receive more informative guidance and support.
First Steps
Here you will find all the information required to start collecting information for your Travel Plan before your local School Travel Advisor comes to visit you.
1. Conduct a hands up survey with all pupils present on one particular day.
Please make sure you don’t change the categories. All pupils (including 6th form) must be surveyed. Also keep a note of the date the survey was carried out, how many pupils took part and how many were absent.
Click here to download the pupil hands up survey template
2. Conduct a staff survey.
Again please note date and response rates, feel free to adapt parts of this survey to suit your needs, although the major emphasis on how people travel and what would make them change should remain.
Click here to download the staff survey template
3. Conduct a more detailed survey of pupils.
There are two options for selecting the
Click here to download the detailed pupil survey template
4. Gathering further evidence for your travel plan.
Form a working party to include various people: e.g. governor, parent, community police officer or warden, members of School Council, local resident or member of Parish Council. You might think it appropriate to send a letter or leaflet out to local residents or put a notice in a parish magazine or local shop to explain what the school is doing. The group needs to draw together all the information concerning factors which affect people travelling to school. Take minutes or brief notes at any meetings you have.
Click here to download a residents survey template
These steps need to be completed for HealthySchools validation
pupils surveyed. You might like to survey one class from each year group ors elect a particular year group (KS3 pupils will obviously benefit more from any future actions and are more likely to be influenced to change their modes of transport). Your ICT experts might like to use this as an opportunity to teach pupils how to set up an online survey! Again, note how many were sent out, how many are returned and the rough date.
This template provides you with a guide to the preferred layout of a travel plan and what essential and desired pieces of information need to be included. The DCSF are keen to see individuality when they assess them every March. This template should be used for reference purposes only.
The transport information provided in each School Travel Plan should give enough detail that parents, staff and visitors can make informed choices about how to travel to and from school. This guidance recommends what should be included in your School Travel Plan, with useful website links and examples. This information should be in the introduction section of the plan.
Ideas for Secondary School Action Plan
Here you will find a range of ideas for inclusion in the action plan. This can be used to give ideas for actions that can be implemented to help achieve the objectives and targets of your School Travel Plan. Included are actions for walking, cycling, public transport, car sharing, road safety, personal safety, curriculum, publicity and continuity, and Highways issues.
When we look through a School Travel Plan that has been submitted to us, this is the check list we use to ensure it has all the required elements. You might find it helpful to go through your finished plan with this list to check you have included all the essential information before you submit it to your School Travel Plan Advisor.
| First Steps Here you will find all the information required to start collecting information for your Travel Plan before your local School Travel Advisor comes to visit you. 1. Conduct a hands up survey with all pupils present on one particular day. Ideally use the hands up survey available to download. However, according to the level of your pupils' needs, you might need to provide the information by using school travel records, and omit the preferred mode of travel if this is not appropriate. Click here to download the pupil hands up survey template 2. Conduct a staff survey. Please note date and response rates, feel free to adapt parts of this survey to suit your needs, although the major emphasis on how people travel and what would make them change should remain. Click here to download the staff survey template 3. Send out a survey to parents. We would suggest sending one survey per family. Again, note how many were sent out, how many are returned and the rough date. Please adapt the suggestions for change in question 3 to suit your school’s situation. Click here to download the parents survey template 4. Gathering further evidence for your travel plan. Form a working party to include various people: e.g. governor, parent, community police officer or warden, members of School Council, local resident or member of Parish Council. You might think it appropriate to send a letter or leaflet out to local residents or put a notice in a parish magazine or local shop to explain what the school is doing. The group needs to draw together all the information concerning factors which affect people travelling to school. Take minutes or brief notes at any meetings you have. Click here to download a residents survey template These steps need to be completed for HealthySchools validation
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This template provides you with a guide to the preferred layout of a travel plan and what essential and desired pieces of information need to be included. The DCSF are keen to see individuality when they assess them every March. This template should be used for reference purposes only.
The transport information provided in each School Travel Plan should give enough detail that parents, staff and visitors can make informed choices about how to travel to and from school. This guidance recommends what should be included in your School Travel Plan, with useful website links and examples. This information should be in the introduction section of the plan.
Ideas for Special School Action Plan
Here you will find a range of ideas for inclusion in the action plan. This can be used to give ideas for actions that can be implemented to help achieve the objectives and targets of your School Travel Plan. Included are actions for walking for staff and pupils (if feasible), cycling for staff and pupils (if feasible), public transport, car sharing, safety of the school site, road safety, curriculum, taxis, individual travel plans, publicity and continuity, and Highways issues.
When we look through a School Travel Plan that has been submitted to us, this is the check list we use to ensure it has all the required elements. You might find it helpful to go through your finished plan with this list to check you have included all the essential information before you submit it to your School Travel Plan Advisor.