Haddenham St Mary’s School Travel Plan

Here at St Mary’s we have an active School Travel Plan team made up of parents and governors that are led by Mrs Nickless.

The Travel Plan Team aims to:

Our team this year is:

Mrs Nickless– STP lead

Mrs Janet Sharp – STP governor

Mrs Katherine Eccles –  Footsteps co-ordinator

The team plan events and initiatives to encourage and support safe and sustainable travel to school such as walking and cycling. We have been awarded PLATINUM Status 2021 as part of the Modeshift STARS (Sustainable Travel Accreditation and Recognition for Schools) national schools awards scheme.  We meet on a regular basis to discuss ideas and plan events. The team also collaborates with HCJS and HCIS to ensure that all the Haddenham schools are working together and delivering the same message about options for sustainable travel.

Here are some of the ways that we encourage sustainable travel to HSM:

Fitness Fridays and Walk to school events

Fitness Fridays are walk to school events on a monthly from the Church of the Good Shepherd. The walk generally leaves at 8.40am and allows parents and children to take part in a regular walk to school event. Parents are then invited into school once a month for refreshments and a chat in the school hall.

The School Travel Plan takes part in national walk to school weeks in October and May. We also encourage participation in the Bike to School month in June.

Please see the school newsletter and calendar for details of all the planned events and the STP newsletters.

Park and Stride/Walking bubble map

Please see the map below for the Park and Stride area – if you park and then walk to school (within the 10 minute exclusion zone) then this counts! We do appreciate that a lot of children live outside Haddenham and do have to come in the car, so this initiative allows everyone to be involved. Please use the areas allocated in the maps below:

Good to be Green

New for the 2022/23 academic year! All the children in school have the opportunity to take part in our own ‘Good to be Green’ scheme. Every time a child walks, walks and strides, scoots or cycles (from outside the park and stride zone) to/from school they can get a stamp on their passport.  Once your child’s passport of full, they can send it to Mrs Nickless who will exchange it for a small prize.

Considerate Parking Scheme

New for 2022! Please respect our neighbours and the community for parking considerately around all of the school in Haddenham.

Cycle and Scooter Permits

We encourage children to cycle and scoot to school as often as they can. Please ask in the school office if you would like your child to have a bicycle permit. This entitles them to park their bicycle or scooter in the covered bike area.

Reception children benefit from Balance Bike Training and Sunshine children benefit from Scooter Skills training.

Footsteps

When children are in year 1 and Year 2 they are offered the chance to take part in the Footsteps training programme. Footsteps is a practical pedestrian training scheme for young children, which develops awareness of roads and helps them live safely with traffic. Children are taken into the local area with a trained tutor to observe the traffic and discuss road safety. It is a very worthwhile scheme – if you are interested in becoming a tutor then please speak to Mrs Nickless.

We are always looking for new ideas and more members – please contact Mrs Nickless if you would like to support us.

Many thanks
The School Travel Plan Team