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Marlborough First & Middle School – Travel Plan
Marlborough First &
Middle School
Travel Plan 2008
School Travel Plan – Guidance 1
Marlborough First & Middle School – Travel Plan
1. Introducing Our School
School Name: Marlborough First and Middle School
School Address:
Marlborough Hill
Harrow
Middlesex
HA1 1UJ
Telephone Number: 020 8427 3087
Email address: head@marlborough.harrow.sch.uk
Website Address: www.marlboroughschool.ik.org
LEA/School DFES Reference Number: 310 / 2051
Type of school:
A State/LEA school. School is a combined First and Middle School with two forms
for each year from reception up to and including year 7. It is also used as an
Extended Hours facility as well as a Polling Station.
Location of the School:
Located within a residential area, approximately 1 mile from Harrow town centre and
half a mile from Wealdstone. Marlborough Hill is a moderately busy road used as a
route between Wealdstone/Civic Centre and North Harrow. The school is not in an
isolated location as there are 3 nurseries, 4 other schools within 1 mile of
Marlborough.
Pedestrian & School Entrances:
There are three pedestrian entrances to the school. One is via a gate in an alley that
runs between Marlborough Hill and Walton Drive. This entrance leads into the first
school playground.
The main pedestrian entrances to the school are from Marlborough Hill. One leads
directly to the front entrance and the other is via path to the east side of the car park
leading into the Middle school playground.
Two vehicular entrances exist at the front of the school on Marlborough Hill. They
are nominally designed as entrance and exit respectively. Common practice is to
close gates such that these are used only for vehicles but they are and can be used
for pedestrians.
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Map showing schools location:
Facilities:
Description Numbers
The car park No. of staff parking spaces 13
No. of visitor spaces 0
No. of disabled spaces 0
Cycle storage No. of cycle parking bays for staff 0
No. of cycle parking bays for pupils 0
How secure is this storage provided
Storage lockers No. of staff storage lockers @20
No. of pupil storage lockers @200
Shower facilities Are staff shower facilities available 1 welfare
Are pupil shower facilities available 0
Transport links:
Buses:
H11, H14, 186, 340, 182,140, 258
Trains/Tube:
Harrow & Wealdstone Tube & BR Station 5 minutes walk.
Harrow on the Hill Tube & BR 15 minutes walk.
Roads:
The busy main road thoroughfares are Harrow View to the West, Station Rd/Railway
Approach to the East and Headstone Rd to the North. Much of the traffic makes use
of the residential roads to cut through from one main road to the other. Marlborough
Hill is a popular road for cut through as it has the Main Council Offices located at the
West end of Marlborough Hill. Other residential roads that feature significant cut
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through traffic include Nibthwaite Road and Radnor Rd, Princes Drive and Barons
Mead.
School Opening & Closing Times:
Open/start Close/finish
School site 07:00 18:00
Breakfast club (if applicable) 08:00 08:40
Pupils official school time 08:40 15:25
Nursery (if applicable)
Lower School
Upper School
After school clubs (if 15:25 18:00
applicable)
The school is also used during the weekends and holiday periods
for extra curricular activities for the children and staff as well as for
many outside groups.
Over the next 5 years a major refurbishment of the school
premises will cause much disruption and careful planning for
access for all users and workers needs to be planned for.
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Introducing our pupils and staff
Pupil & Staff numbers:
Numbers of pupils on role 471 capacity for 480
Numbers of full time staff 27
Numbers of part time staff 33
Numbers of school volunteers 30 Friends Of Marlborough (FOM)
The pupils are located in the following Postcode areas:
Postcode Number of Pupils
HA0 2
HA1 369
HA2 29
HA3 59
HA4 0
HA5 6
HA6 0
HA7 2
WD19 1
WD25 3
Total 471
Use of school outside of school hours including extended
schools activities:
Breakfast club 08:00 to 08:45 Mon-Fri
After school club 15:30 to 18:00 Mon-Fri
Gym club 15:30 to 17:45 Wed
Football 15.30 to 16:30 Tues-Thurs
Chess 15:30 to 16:15 Thurs-Fri
Parenting class 18:00 to 20:00 Tuesday
Scrabble Club 15:30 to 16:30 Tuesday
Tag Rugby 15:30 to 16:30 Tue/Fri
Cricket 15:30 to 16:30 Thursday
Girls’ Football 15:30 to 16:30 Tuesday
Hockey 15:30 to 16:30 Wednesday
Netball 15:30 to 16:30 Wednesday
Tamil TV Filming 15:30 to 18:00 Friday
Post Xmas plan for
Dance 15:30 to 17:00 Thursdays
The school is used a Polling Station on days of local or general
elections nominally 07:00 to 22:00 on those days.
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Number of pupils who attend the school: 471
Age range of Pupils: 4 to 12
Other information about the pupils who attend our school:
Number of Free Schools Meals = 108
SEN Pupils = 96
No of pupils entitled to assisted transport = 0
(where required the needs of SEN pupils are considered by
the school in line with DDA)
Culturally Diverse = 23 different languages are spoken
Number of Staff who work at the school: 60
Other information about the people who work at our school
18 full time Teachers including TLT & DHT of which 4 are
part-time
16 classroom teaching assistants
2 Learning Mentors
16 Dinner Ladies
4 ASC staff.
1 Caretaker
1 School Business Manager
1 Secretary
1 Head Teacher
1 Deputy Head Teacher
Staff travel from a 10 mile radius, as far away as Watford &
South London.
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Existing school policies and practice to promote safe, healthy
and sustainable transport
The PSHE policy of which our Healthy Schools Policy is part
covers transport to and from school. The school is in the process
of setting up the formal walking bus scheme. Informal walking
buses are currently running on an adhoc basis.
The school has adopted the Harrow Council Education Visit
Policy. In principle this operates on the basis that where ever
possible Y4 and upward use public transport and Y3 and below
use safe private coach hire for long journeys.
Children are bussed to the local swimming pool as the distance is
too great to walk without wasting too much time. Walking time to
the swimming pool in a large group would take 30minutes each
way, and the route is not that safe or easy.
Harrow Council Safety Officer carries out cycle proficiency
training for year 5 and above.
Harrow Council Safety Officer provides Road safety lectures and
theatre groups to come in and brief on safety. Most other times
staff carry this out as part of a continuous emphasis on road
safety.
The school Health & Safety policy covers the way in which the
school is opened and the car park and traffic is controlled during
the drop off and pick times. This includes discouraging parking on
Zig Zag. Active monitoring during the hours of enforcement.
A theatre group has come in and performed Stranger Danger.
The school has and will continue to promote the Walk to School
Week – Usually during the month of May. It has not been well
supported and improvement in this will be an important target.
‘Walk on Wednesday’ is being considered but has not been
introduced. This will be part of the key targets.
We do not have a cycle policy or a behaviour policy that includes
walking buses and scootering.
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2. School Travel Working Group:
Is there currently a working group? YES
When was the group set up? November 2006.
How often does/will the group meet? The group meets
formally as part of the Premises Committee about 6 times per
year. They also meet informally to get work done in
preparation for the meetings and putting this document
together.
Travel Plan Co-ordinator:
Max Buttinger
School staff:
Marie Roberts
Gill Ross
Pupils:
Heather Akers
Shenal Daniels
Noah Goddard
Governors:
Lance Penman
Bill Stephenson
Parents:
John Tighe
Sonia Moore
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Identifying our baseline information
Survey Results
How pupils and staff usually travel to school
Date of survey 2nd March 2008
Mode
Students Staff
Car (not sharing) 140 27
Carshare (travelling with someone who
3 0
lives at another house)
Rail/Bus (Train, Tube, DLR, Tram) 17 7
Bicycle 1 0
Walk (all the way) 290 15
Other (please list each case below) 2* 0
Grand totals 452 49
Total number of all students on roll in
471
school
Total number of all staff employed at
60
school
Please list all other methods of transport reported and quantities of each
* Taxi, skateboard
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Distance to School From Parental Survey
Over 3
2 to 3
1 to 2
Up to 1 mile
By far the majority of people travel less than 2 miles to school. It is
encouraging to note that over ¾ of these households do not use the car.
This sets a good number of car users to target for converting.
Current Mode of Transport From Parental
Survey
Other
Car
Car share
Bus or train
Cycle
Walk
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The parental survey covers 108 households and it is interesting to note
the variations in the data when compared to the more holistic view
collected from the Hands Up Survey carried out in the classroom. The
car statistic is considerable hire and represents around 120 pupils.
Current Mode of Transport from Hands Up
Survey - Pupils
Other
Car (not
sharing)
Carshare
Walk Public
Transport
Bicycle
The mode of transport for the staff is heavily weighted to the car for
many of the full-time staff, whilst many of the part-time helpers arrive on
foot. This is in part due to the longer journeys that the car users are
making.
Mode of Transport - Staff
Other
Walk
Car (not
sharing)
Bicycle
Public
Transport
Carshare
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Survey Results
How pupils and staff would prefer to travel to school
Date of survey 2nd March 2008
Mode
Students Staff
Car (not sharing) 44 10
Carshare (travelling with someone who
15 5
lives at another house)
Rail/Bus (Train, Tube, DLR, Tram) 7 5
Bicycle 138 11
Walk (all the way) 80 18
Other (please list each case below) 3* 0
Grand totals 287 49
Total number of all students on roll in
471
school
Total number of all staff employed at
60
school
Please list all other methods of transport reported and quantities of each
* Taxi, skateboard, rollerskate
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The parental survey provided a clear view as to the concerns over the
routes to and from the school. To encourage more walkers the following
areas were recommended for improvement by parents. See chart below.
Changes Needed to Encourage More Walkers -
Parental Survey
14% 14% Nothing
Pavement improvements
Better Street lighting
23%
Less or /slow er traffic
35%
Less cars at school
entrance
14%
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By far the biggest desire for the pupils is to change their mode of
transport from all forms to Cycling. This can be seen by contrasting the
two pie charts below.
Current Mode of Transport from Hands Up
Pupil Survey
Other
Car (not
sharing)
Carshare
Walk Public
Transport
Bicycle
Preferred Mode of Transport - Pupil Hands Up
Survey
Taxi
Car
Walk
Carshare
Public
Transport
Bicycle
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3. Evidence of consultation and involvement
Pupil Consultation
Hands-up survey performed with each class group . Mar 2008
School council consulted on ideas for encouraging walkers and cyclists
etc. May 2007.
Governors
Travel plan reviewed at several premises committee meetings. June
2007, November 2007, February 2008.
Plans drawn up to identify bike-shed locations, re-locate entrance to
safer position, scooter shed, covered area for protection from the
elements. The travel plan issues and ideas for improvement have also
been captured in the school survey and translated into the School
Improvement Plan. Many of the ideas for improvement are being drawn
up into practical concepts with associated costs.
Parents
Survey issued to all parents/carers and responses received from 128
households.
Weekly newsletter used to re-enforce the need for the survey response.
Comments have been consolidated in the section ‘Our Travel/transport
Problems’.
Staff
Staff consulted on a one to one basis by travel plan team between
September and November 2007. Many comments were captured on the
survey forms and the consolidated views included in this document
under ‘Our Travel/transport Problems’.
Local People
Several of the residents bordering the school and those closest to the
entrances were questioned on a one to one basis about their views on
the school and about the changes that would help make life easier for
them. These comments are captured in the School survey and relevant
extracts included in this document under ‘Our Travel/transport
Problems’.
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Our travel/transport problems
Details of the issue/concern How was issue identified? Possible solutions? Who will need to help?
Council
1 Difficultly getting safely across Harrow View Survey feedback Zebra crossing, traffic
because of combinations of fast moving island, supervision on
traffic, heavy weight of traffic and blind spots. Harrow View, other traffic
The pedestrian crossing is situated too far calming
from Marlborough Hill. Poor air quality due to
fumes.
2 Difficultly crossing Station road from Survey feedback Zebra crossing, Council
Woodlands Road again due to combination supervision on Station Rd
of fast moving traffic and Bus Lane visibility other traffic calming
problems.
3 Difficultly getting safely across Marlborough Survey feedback Improve road humps, Council
Hill, because of combinations of fast moving crossing table with width
traffic and blind spots created by parked cars. restriction outside the
One child has been knocked down by a school.
moving vehicle.
4 Difficultly getting safely across, Princess Survey feedback Lollipop Lady, Speed Council
Drive because of combinations of fast Humps, Zebra crossing
moving traffic and blind spots.
5 Difficultly getting safely across, Barons Mead Survey feedback Lollipop Lady, Speed Council
because of combinations of fast moving traffic Humps
and blind spots as staff for civic centre arrive.
6 Local residence pulling out of drives without Survey feedback Leaflet residents, School
seeing children (eg: Ice on windscreen) education for children of
dangers
7 Cars parking on zig zag lines causing Survey feedback Ticket cars. Done
congestion
Survey feedback Council
8 Use of Badminton Close for drop off Close Badminton Close,
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Details of the issue/concern How was issue identified? Possible solutions? Who will need to help?
children creates congestion and potential for provide specific drop off
injury to adults and children points, supervise, paint zig
zag lines
Curbs are high around school making Survey feedback Lower curbs by entrances Council
9 movement of pushchairs difficult to school, or raise the road
using a crossing table.
Survey feedback
10 Pavements are uneven and potential trip Make good paths Council
hazards
11 Pedestrian entrance to middle school Survey feedback School, Architect
playground is too narrow. Insufficient space Redesign? Utilise some
for safe movement up and down. car park space or find
Exit/entrance also gets very congested. alternate route through
fence?
12 Cars around Walton Road alley entrance Survey feedback Zig zag lines, policing, School & Council &
causing congestion when dropping off introduce parking Community Police Officers.
children or blocking home owners drives restrictions
13 Poor lighting in alleyway beside school (also Survey feedback Add additional lighting and Council
full of rubbish), becomes slippery when regularly clean the path
rubbish gets wet and when berries fall in the way.
summer.
14 Car not stopping for zebra crossing on Survey feedback Additional traffic calming Council, Community Police
Harrow View. Either travelling too fast, measures Officers
unsighted of crossing due to bus or simply
not aware of crossing,
15 Older children behaving boisterously out of at Survey feedback Staff to re-enforce good School
Walton Drive end of footpath creating behaviour
congestion
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Details of the issue/concern How was issue identified? Possible solutions? Who will need to help?
16 There is inadequate parking provision for Survey feedback Encourage car share, re- School & Council
staff. With a total of 60 staff and only 13 layout the car park and
marked parking spaces many staff have to middle school entrance to
park some distance from the school create more spaces.
Cycling incentives, cycle
miles.
17 No cycle storage School Council Build one. School
18 No Sheltered area for parents to wait. Survey Add covered walkway to School, architect
Middle and First School.
19 Children taking the bus can arrive late for no School Council Car share, cycle, walk School
fault of their own.
20 Hamilton Rd and Nibthwaite Rd cars rarely Survey feedback Speed Humps, CPO Council
indicate intentions, making it difficult to cross. supervision at key times.
Many blind spots. Nibthwaite Rd used as a
rat run.
21 Crossing before School Alley way from Survey Feedback CPO to help control traffic Council/CPO
Walton Drive, too many cars parking causing in the mornings.
blind spots and difficulty for movement.
Heavy traffic in mornings.
22 Local Mosque being built at end of Premises Committee
Marlborough Hill likely to increase use of
Marlborough Hill.
23 Greater number of houses converted into Premises Committee
flats increasing the number of road users.
Most people choose the shortest route to school from their homes. The survey has revealed a number of pinch points or crossing
points that a reasonably large (greater than 5) number of parents and children need to cross busy roads. These have been
expanded upon below with some thoughts on possible ways of improving the situation.
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The busy main road thoroughfares are Harrow View to the West, Station Rd/Railway Approach to the East and Headstone Rd to
the North. Much of the traffic makes use of the residential roads to cut through from one main road to the other. Marlborough Hill is
a popular road for cut through as it has the Main Council Offices located at the East end of Marlborough Hill. Other residential roads
that feature significant cut through traffic include Nibthwaite Road and Radnor Rd, Princes Drive and Barons Mead
Princes Drive
Harrow View
Station Rd
Yellow circles indicate regular pinch points that reasonably large groups of parents and pupils use as a preferred point to cross a
busy road. Many factors lead to these locations been chosen. The main reason is that safe crossing points are usually a significant
walk away. A solution to these locations is to provide a Zebra or Pelican crossing.
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Green circles indicate Zebra or Pelican crossings.
During curriculum time it is desirable to use Harrow Recreation Ground for sports for many of the year groups. The shortest and
quickest route would be to cross Harrow view at a point indicated by the Yellow Circle at the junction of Marlborough Hill and
Harrow View.
Blue circles indicate crossing points where traffic is heavy and can vary from being slow and congested to very fast moving and
have many blind spots. These locations would benefit from temporary calming measures such as Community Police Officers or
lollipop ladies or more permanent traffic calming measures such as width restrictions or better speed humps.
- Crossing point on Harrow View - Crossing point at Station rd - Crossing point at Baron’s
near junction with Marlborough Hill. and Woodlands Rd. Traffic Island is Mead and Marlborough Hill. Large
insufficient to help people trying to volume of traffic due to access for
cross. Civic Centre and train station.
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4. Our Objectives:
1. Improve safety for pedestrians by providing adequate safe crossing facilities.
2. Encourage pupils to cycle to school independently by providing safe and secure routes, storage facilities and cycle training.
3. Promote a healthier lifestyle for pupils and staff by encouraging more walking and cycling to school.
4. Help protect the environment by encouraging staff to car share and encourage parents to walk.
Targets
1. Increase the % of children walking (or cycling) from 70% to 73% by March 2009
2. Decrease cars used for journey to school by 10% by March 2009.
3. Make provision for the safe use of bicycles/scooters by staff and pupils by 30 by March 2009
4. Ensure each class is taught Road Safety by end of first term in New Year.
5. Communicate with at least 80% of staff, children, parents and community specifically about transport at least once per year.
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5. Our Action Plan
Objective and Target linked to Steps/actions needed Who is Target date Projected cost
responsible? Must be if known and
Must be named specific source of
person or group) date/month funding
NOT
“ongoing”
Cycling – • Cycle Shed to be built with secure locking Premises Dec 2008
Objectives 2,3 facilities. Committee
Targets 1, 3, 4, 5 • Safe Cycle Routes to be identified and Sept 2008
communicated to all. (TFL Local Cycling Guide
3).
• Community Police Officer to be recruited to Mar 2009
support policing of these cycle routes to ensure
they are kept safe.
• Establish parent and helper Safer Mar 2009
Neighbourhood Teams.
• Traffic Calming Measures to be identified and put
in place. Mar 2009
• Cycle Code of Conduct to be established and
communicated to all.
• Cycle training for Staff and Pupils Year 5+ Sep 2008
July 2008
• Have a cycle to school week where extra support
May 2009
is provided to make the roads and pavements
safe. CPO, etc
• Develop a cycle miles reward scheme.
Dec 2008
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Scooters • Scooter park to be established Premises Dec 2008
Objectives 2,3 • Scooter code of conduct to be established and committee Sept 2008
Targets 1, 3, 4, 5 communicated to all.
• Scooter training for pupils & parents to be July 2008
established.
Pedestrians • Re-site entrance for Middle School to include Premises Mar 2009
Objectives 1 raised crossing in a more visible area, increase Committee
Targets 1, 4, 5 parking spaces, allow direct access to school
office.
• Join the borough walk on Wednesday Scheme Sep 2008
• Have a Walk only week May 2009
• Establish links for walking buses Sep 2008
• Know your neighbours scheme- Assist parents in Sep 2008
finding local support for drop off and pick up.
• Set up competition for longest bus and most
miles walked in year. Sep 2008
• Obtain sponsorship from walking related Mar 2009
businesses.
• Build shelter for parents waiting to pick up
Mar 2009
children before and after school.
• Lower kerbs for wheel chairs and prams.
Mar 2009
• Build crossing tables at strategic locations,
outside school.
• Build Zebra or Pelican crossings at three key July 2009
locations, Harrow View, Princes Drive and
Station Rd
• Improve traffic calming measures in Mar 2009
Marlborough Hill, Princes Drive, Nibthwaite Rd.
• Provide road safety education for pupils as part Dec 2008
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of curriculum, use outside theatre groups
Cars • Encourage Car Sharing by setting up a scheme Premises Dec 2008
Objectives 4 to provide incentives. Committee
Targets 2, 5 • Have a ‘no car’ day. May 2009
• Electronic Gate to car park to be controlled by July 2009
office.
• Improve/clarify signage around the school Mar 2009
emphasising what are parking bays for residents
and where drop offs can occur.
• Take the rushing and stress out of dropping July 2009
children off by having a controlled drop off zone.
• ‘Name & Shame’ Dec 2008
Public Transport • Use public transport for trips to London for Year Premises Mar 2009
Objectives 4 5 and above. Committee
Targets 2, 5 • Set up school travel party scheme where large Dec 2008
groups are identified as using the same bus
routes.
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Monitoring & Reviewing Our Plan
Our next hands up surveys are on: March 2009
Our Annual Progress review will be completed in: March 2009
Our full review of the School Travel Plan will be completed in:
March 2009
The school travel plan will be revised in: July 2009
The persons responsible for ensuring the annual review will be
done is : Max Buttinger
When reviewing our School travel Plan we will take into consideration
any issues arising from new developments in education and transport
since the original STP was completed.
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Sign off and formal approval - School signatures
The following signatures confirm the school management have read and approve the
contents of this document. By signing this document the school is committing itself to
make every effort to resolve problems identified within the enclosed document and
implement the actions identified. The school further acknowledges that they have
committed to achieving all targets highlighted in their action plan and to the annual
review and monitoring of the plan.
Headteacher Chair of Governors
School Council Representative Parent Governor
Council signatures
The following signatures confirm that the document has been Quality and
Assessment checked by representatives from the relevant Education and
Transportation departments at the Council
School Travel Plan Officer
Assistant Director Assistant Director
( Education/ Children’s Services) (Transportation)
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