Mayflower Primary School
School Travel Plan
Edition 1.00
March 2005
Mayflower Draft Travel Plan v100 2005-03-31
Contents
School Travel Group................................................................................................................................... 3
Circulation .................................................................................................................................................... 3
Introduction ................................................................................................................................................ 4
The School .............................................................................................................................................. 4
Location and Access .............................................................................................................................. 6
Transport links ....................................................................................................................................... 6
Car parking .............................................................................................................................................. 7
Cycle parking ........................................................................................................................................... 7
Students .................................................................................................................................................. 7
Catchment area ...................................................................................................................................... 7
Travel Issues .......................................................................................................................................... 7
Plans .......................................................................................................................................................... 7
Travel Strategy .......................................................................................................................................... 8
School Ethos ................................................................................................................................................ 8
Mission statement and Aims ............................................................................................................... 8
Travel Plan links ..................................................................................................................................... 8
Policies and Objectives ............................................................................................................................. 9
National Policies ..................................................................................................................................... 9
Local Policies ........................................................................................................................................... 9
Baseline Information ................................................................................................................................ 10
Hands Up Survey of mode of travel ................................................................................................. 10
Evidence of Consultation and Involvement .......................................................................................... 10
Student Travel Questionnaire ........................................................................................................... 10
School Governors .................................................................................................................................. 10
Any other consultation ........................................................................................................................ 10
Project partners ................................................................................................................................... 11
Evidence Portfolio ................................................................................................................................ 11
Initiatives.................................................................................................................................................... 12
What is already in place? .................................................................................................................... 12
What additional measures could be considered? .......................................................................... 12
Implementation .......................................................................................................................................... 12
The benefits of a successful Safer Routes to School Project include: .................................. 12
Monitoring and Evaluation ....................................................................................................................... 13
Objectives .............................................................................................................................................. 13
This Plan’s Targets ............................................................................................................................... 13
How will it be monitored? ................................................................................................................... 13
How will changes be reported? .......................................................................................................... 13
A section in the headteacher’s termly newsletter ....................................................................... 13
Presentations at Governors meetings .............................................................................................. 13
School council meetings ...................................................................................................................... 13
The new travel plan .............................................................................................................................. 13
Action Plan – 2005/2006 ......................................................................................................................... 14
School Travel Survey Results – Students............................................................................................ 17
School Travel Survey Results – Staff .................................................................................................. 18
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School Travel Group
Name Title
Lisa Zychowicz Headteacher
Liz Gillen School Travel Champion
Matt Hopkins and Maritza Maree School PSHE Co-ordinator
Suzanne Providence Home School Worker
Lisa Zychowicz School Council Facilitator
Somirun Nessa Parent
Simon Kempson Governor
Masuda School Council member
Circulation
Name Title Email/telephone
Malcolm Key Chair of Governors
Lisa Zychowicz Headteacher head@mayflower.towerhamlets.sch.uk
John Rymell Safer Routes to School Co-Ordinator John.rymell@towerhamlets.gov.uk
All staff
All families
Community police officer PC Phidia 020 7275 4277
a Mayflower Primary School, Upper North Street, London, E14 6DU
t 020 7987 2782
f 020 7538 3792
e admin@mayflower.towerhamlets.sch.uk
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Introduction
The School
Mayflower Primary School is located in Poplar which is a stone’s throw
away from Canary Wharf in the heart of London’s vibrant Docklands. It is
a one and a half form entry school with 350 plus pupils on roll (including a
part-time Nursery). It serves an inner city community with the majority
of its pupils speaking English as an Addition Language, predominantly
Bengali. The school is fully inclusive and aims to meet the needs of all
pupils. The school is part of the Poplar Action Zone and has recently
joined a Primary Learning Network with five other schools from across
Tower Hamlets.
Events and opportunities in 2004/5 at Mayflower have included:
After School Clubs and Lunchtime clubs:
Girls’ Netball Play club
Boys’ Netball Cinema Club
Street Dancing Swimming Club
Design and Sew Cooking
Games and Puzzle Club for KS1 Maths Club
Digital Photography course Football with Leyton Orient
African Drumming Jewellery Club
Docklands Museum Club Art club
Initiatives for parents have included:
Mothers’ English Classes
Fathers’ English Classes
Strengthening Families course
Coffee Mornings with Home School worker
Toy Library
Mothers’ and Toddlers
Eid and Christmas Party
Enrichment activities for children during the school day have included:
Lunchtime Reading Partners (from Credit Suisse)
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Maths Partners (Schroeder)
Animation and story writing project for Reception, Year 1 and Year
2.
Past, Present and Future of Poplar – cross-curricular History
Project for Year 5 working with an artist, poet and writer to
produce flagpole banners for the playground.
‘Identity’ Singing Project for Year 3 and Year 4 – working with
Children’s Music Workshop
Easter Art Project ‘Tower Hamlets Old and New’ for talented
children across KS2
Y3 and Y4 visit to Peter Pan at Sadler’s Wells
Year 6 week’s residential trip to Gorsefield
Easter E-learning and History project for more able children
across KS2 – leading to the creation of a website which will become
a learning resource for pupils both in and outside school.
Easter Writing course for more able Year 6 children across Poplar
Action Zone.
Focus for teaching and learning for staff at present:
Assessment for Learning
ICT across the curriculum – including the effective use of
interactive whiteboards
Oracy and its impact on writing
Aspects of Learning and teaching – including preparation for
learning, questioning within the classroom and active learning
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Location and Access
Entry for all children, staff and visitors is on Upper North Street. A particularly busy
road, used locally as a short cut between the A13, A12 and A102(M).
The main school gates are open from 8.30 - 9.00 in the morning, and 3.15 - 4.00 in the
afternoon. At all other times entry to the school is through the reception/office door,
which is operate by an entry phone system.
Transport links
The local area is well serviced by both buses and the DLR.
Bus services are as follows; route 15 on the East India Dock Road, this runs very
frequently route between East Ham and Paddington. The D6, which runs between the
Isle of Dogs and Hackney (passing Mile End station where the Central and District lines
run). The 309, which stops in Cordelia Street, this runs between Bethnal Green and the
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Aberfeldy area.
The nearest DLR station is Poplar (less than a 5 minute walk), with connections to Bank,
Towergateway, Stratfotd, Bekton, Lewisham and Canary Wharf - for the Jubilee line.
Car parking
The school has no car park.
There is permit/pay and display parking on Grundy Street and Annabel Close. Currently
visitors may use the car park at Blessed John Roche Secondary School, however this is
only for the short term as the school closes as the end of the current academic year.
Cycle parking
We currently have secure, covered cycle parking for 6 cycles. There is no cyle
parking/facilities on the adjacent roads.
Students
The school is 1.5 form entry with a role of 356 children aged from3 to 11. The majority
of the children have English as a second language. Most children live on the south side of
East India Dock Road.
Catchment area
The locality is made up of local authority/housing association housing. The school is in
close proximity to two other primary schools, Bygrove Primary School and Lansbury
Lawrence Primary School.
Travel Issues
The main travel issue facing the school is the East India Dock Road (A13). It is a TFL
red route and very, very busy. In the last four years 3 children have been seriously
injured whilst crossing this road. In the past there have been school crossing patrols
operating on the junction of Upper North Street and East India Dock Road. Most of our
children and their families have to cross this road at least twice day.
Plans
There are draft plans to erect sheltered areas in the play ground so that
parents/carers can be encourage to walk to school to collect their children in bad
weather conditions.
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Travel Strategy
Utmost in our travel strategy is to protect our children. Road safety has
been an issue in the local area for many years. The vision of each key
point of the action plan is to avoid any further accidents involving any
children in the local community. We hope to achieve this by the support
of all the partners named in this plan and most of all the families and
children themselves.
School Ethos
Mission statement and Aims
Mayflower Primary School is a learning community.
The aims of the school are as follows:-
Children develop into active independent learners through a broad range of
teaching methods
The children want to succeed and are proud of their achievements
Children develop subject specific skills and learn how to apply them, broadening
the use of ICT to support learning in other curriculum areas
Everybody is valued equally and has respect for themselves, others and the
environment
There are high expectations of standards and behaviour
Children are confident to take risks and accept new challenges to develop
socially and academically
Everyone is valued for the individual contribution they make to the life of the
school
Partnerships between school, home and the wider community are highly valued
and encouraged
Travel Plan links
The travel plan will link with the School Development plan and also incorporate the
school ethos.
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Policies and Objectives
National Policies
1 In July 1998, the Government issued its White Paper on Transport, which
emphasised the need to address the use of cars for the school journey, since
nationally more than quarter of children travel to school by car. Increasing car
usage causes road congestion, air pollution, and can lead to reduced levels of
fitness and an inability to cope with traffic as pedestrians.
2 A Travel Advisory Group will be established at Globe in September 2004 to
develop good practice and identify ways of addressing school journey issues and
school travel plans are seen as a key component. In addition, all local authorities
are now required to produce Local Transport Plans (LTP), which sets local
transport targets for the authority and must include ‘an integrated strategy for
reducing car use and improving children’s safety on the school journey’.
Local Policies
In tower Hamlets, car ownership is well above the national average with 80% of
households owning one car and 40% owning two or more. Traffic has grown by more than
50% between 1985 and 1995, and the forecast is that it could double by the year 2025.
The Safer Routes to School initiative developed over the last few years combines Tower
Hamlets strategies for reducing growth and road casualties, bringing together the
Council, District, Health Authority and Police Authority, to devise an integrated
approach for reducing unnecessary car use and improving safety on the home to school
journey. It aims to provide or facilitate the provision of safer routes to every school in
Tower Hamlets utilising a combination of education engineering, training and
enforcement measures to encourage parents and pupils to walk or cycle for at least part
of the journey to school. The School Travel Plans plays a crucial role in this process, by
setting out an action plan of measures to help secure safer routes for individual schools.
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Baseline Information
Hands Up Survey of mode of travel
See results at back of Travel Plan.
Evidence of Consultation and Involvement
Student Travel Questionnaire
We conducted an attitudinal questionnaire with 357 students.
This is how they would like to travel to school:
Mode Girls Boys Totals
Car (straight from home to school) 15 13 28
Carshare – (stopping on the way for others) 8 1 9
School Bus 2 3 5
Rail (Train, Tube, DLR, Tram) 2 2 4
Bus 4 6 10
Bicycle 5 10 15
Walk (all the way) 114 171 285
Other (please list each case below) 0 1 1
Totals 150 207 357
10.4% pupils would like to travel to school by car
79.8% pupils would like to walk to school.
This shows that our children are happy to walk to school, which means we need to
concentrate our efforts on creating a safer environment for them and encourage and
support families and the local community in their participation with the school to make
this possible.
School Governors
The school governors wholly support the travel plan.
In 2004 846 signatures were collected in support of improving the pedestrian strategies
locally.
Any other consultation
We hope to include the local community police officers in future consultation. LAP,
Harca, PAZ.
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Project partners
1 School governing body
2 All school staff
3 Pupils including the school council
4 Parents including the parents association
5 London Borough of Tower Hamlets
6 Community Police
7 Healthy Schools Group
Evidence Portfolio
Both the interior and exterior travel notice boards will display current events and
results. However, there will also be an evidence portfolio as described in the plan which
will show the progress of the plan from its beginning.
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Initiatives
What is already in place?
We are currently participating in Kerbcraft Training. This training involves both children
and parents from the children on years 1 and 2.
What additional measures could be considered?
1 School crossing patrol - creating an enhanced feeling of safety for children,
their families and the local community
2 Walking incentive scheme - using step counters children can monitor their own
progress and health
3 School travel newsletters/notice board - internal and external, for children,
their families and the local community (external board is visible from the
footpath)
4 Drivers code of practice - if children must be driven to school this will improve
drivers awareness
5 Induction talks for new parents - to encourage new cares/parents to participate
in the travel plan and promote inclusion
6 Enforcement by council of lines outside school - to stop dangerous parking
7 Distributing leaflets to school community (mixed languages) - creating awareness
8 Expanding the PSHE curriculum to encourage walking/cycling to school -
contributing to safer practises and the SDP
9 Involvement in cycle training as offered by LEA - to increase safety and
encourage more children to cycle to school
Implementation
The benefits of a successful Safer Routes to School Project include:
1 Developing lifelong and sustainable travel habits
2 Creating a safer environment for the school community and the local community
3 Reducing congestion in the areas around the school site
4 Reducing pollution and improving air quality in the local area
5 Increasing independence, self-esteem, health and fitness of the pupils
6 Improve standard of driving among parents and staff
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Monitoring and Evaluation
Objectives
1 Increase numbers of students walking or cycling to school.
2 Improve Road Safety knowledge
3 Stop cars parking on Keep Clear zig-zag markings
This Plan’s Targets
1 Increase number of children walking to school by 2 percentage points from
75% to 77%
2 Introduce a Walking Bus from the Will Crooks Estate
How will it be monitored?
We will monitor the STP in the first week of every term starting September 2005. The
STP will be reviewed and revised for the following year ever year starting July 2006.
1 Regular travel surveys of parents/pupils, either written or ‘hands up’ type
2 Monitoring of traffic volume and speed outside the school gates
3 Note date analysis is presented to Safer Routes to School Co-Ordinator
How will changes be reported?
A section in the headteacher’s termly newsletter
Presentations at Governors meetings
School council meetings
The new travel plan
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Action Plan – 2005/2006
Objective Action Time scale Resources Person Person Cost Success Criteria
Responsible Responsible
Internal External
Increase the July 2006 assemblies, Travel zero hands up survey
number of supporting videos, Champion June 2006
children implementation of
walking to action plan
school by 2%
Introduction Introduce travel June 2005 Governing body Head zero support,
of Travel Plan plan to staff and meeting Travel participation
governors Staff meeting Champion & awareness within
information on school
interior travel notice
board
Family arrange June 2005 external Travel Plan travel zero attendance &
Consultation parent/carer display champion feedback/suggestio
meeting parent governor home/school ns submitted at
invite LBTH safer worker meeting
routes co-ord
School council school council July 2005 invite LBTH safer Head zero minutes from
Consultation meeting with Travel routes co-ordinator meeting
Plan agenda suggestions from
council members
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Objective Action Time scale Resources Person Person Cost Success Criteria
Responsible Responsible
Internal External
Introduction parents meeting Autumn jackets for children head tbc number of
of a walking showing walking bus 2005 and volunteers travel volunteers
bus from the video when the champion number of children
Will Crooks clocks using bus
Estate change
Improved Kerbcraft summer ensure all parents are Head Jane attendance at
Knowledge of programme term 2005 invited to participate Home school training of family
road safety in training worker members
class teachers
Family distribute to all June 2005 wrist bands for all travel tbc number of
Questionnaire children completed champion questionnaires
questionnaires received
returned
Developing the cross-curricular Autumn road safety head tbc raised awareness
Travel Plan work 2005 equipment SMT amongst pupils
within the role play equipment
SDP
Increase cycle training April 2005 area to secure cycles OoSHL co- tbc
number of during school time ordinator
children
cycling to
school by 5%
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Objective Action Time scale Resources Person Person Cost Success Criteria
Responsible Responsible
Internal External
Reduce safe driving training Dec 2005 To ascertain if Head John reduction in parking
number of changes in behaviour
cars parked on have occurred
yellow
lines/zigzags
by 25%
Maintaining a collate evidence of July 2006 portfolio folder travel tbc portfolio
Travel Plan all initiatives photographic champion
portfolio evidence
Appointment June 2006 Donovan Zero Evidence
of Junior Road Thomas
Safety
Officer
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School Travel Survey Results – Students
School Travel Survey
Results
School Mayflower Primary School
Date of surveys September 2004
How students usually travel to school
Students
Female Male
Car (not sharing) 23 29
Carshare – driver or passenger 0 0
School Bus 13 16
Rail (Train, Tube, DLR, Tram) 3 3
Bus 0 0
Bicycle 0 0
Walk (all the way) 116 149
Other (please list each case below) 0 0
Male and female subtotals 155 197
Grand totals 352
Total number of all students on roll in
352
school
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School Travel Survey Results – Staff
School Travel Survey
Staff Results
School Mayflower Primary School
Date of survey 26.01.2005
How staff usually travel to school
Staff
Female Male
Car (not sharing) 7 3
Carshare – driver or passenger 4 1
School Bus 0 0
Rail (Train, Tube, DLR, Tram) 8 1
Bus 1 1
Bicycle 1 1
Walk (all the way) 19 2
Other (please list each case below) 0 0
Male and female subtotals 40 9
Grand totals 49*
Total number of all staff employed at school 46
*includes supply staff on day of survey
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