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Flimby Primary School

Travel Plan

February 2009

Contents page

1. School details 3

2. Working party – to develop and implement the plan 7

3. Survey and route plotting carried out 8

4. Summary of transport and road safety issues 9

5. Working party recommendations for action 10

6. Targets – specific % targets for modal shift by yearly review date 10

7. Action plans 11

8. Review of targets 16

9. Cycle count 16

10. Monitoring training 17

11. List of appendices 18

12. Signed agreement 19

2 Flimby Primary School Travel Plan

1 School details

DCSF school reference number 909 5219

Type of school Primary

107 full time plus 18 part time. Number on roll ( including no. of SEN pupils with a brief description of subsequent impact on travel) There are no SEN pupils with special transport needs.

Number of staff (It is highly recommended that a supplementary 19 Travel Plan for staff and other school users is developed) Age range of pupils 3 - 11

School contact details

Head teacher Mr M Cunningham Rye Hill Road Flimby Address Maryport Cumbria

Postcode CA15 8PJ Telephone number 01900 812264 Fax 01900 816778

Email address [email protected]

Website

Working group contact

Name Mr M Cunningham Rye Hill Road Flimby Maryport Address Cumbria CA15 8PJ

Telephone number 01900 812264 [email protected] Email address

3 School situation and use

Flimby Primary School is situated at the northern end of Flimby, and is sited between the busy main A596, Workington to Carlisle road and Rye Hill Road, which is the main traffic entrance to the village. The school serves the village of Flimby and its immediate hinterland with almost all of the pupils living in or close to the village.

The school has 2 entrances at either end of the main Rye Hill Road playground. The southern gate leads directly onto the back lanes link which is a safe walkway/cycleway from the centre of the village and this link is lit and well made up.

Flimby is situated on the Cumbria Coastal Way.

The school has enough car parking spaces for 12 cars and this is sufficient to accommodate staff travelling from a wider area. School is open from 8.00am until 5.30pm but on many evenings our community development centre stays open until 9.00pm to cater for adult learning and childrens dance class.

At the northern end of the school there are bus stops for both directions, providing a service between Maryport, Workington and Whitehaven.

Flimby has a railway station which exits onto the main A596 some 600meters from the school. This is a request stop between Maryports and Workington on the Cumbria coastal line linking Carlisle with Barrow-in-Furness. It would not be feasible for children to travel alone.

In and around the school there are issues with footpaths not being continuous on Rye Hill Road, this has been noted in the Flimby Community Travel Plan. The children have worked recently on the developing NCR72 Hadrians Cycleway Link and have planted trees at the St Helens site to provide wind shelter for this cycleway. This cycleway is to be developed throughout the village.

Following a meeting between the Head and Kevin Cosgrove from the Highways Dept. some discussion has taken place to look at the possibility of incorporating the back lanes, as previously mentioned, as a possible part of this cycleway. School is keen to support this idea which will fit well as part of our ‘Healthy Schools’ activities through getting children to use the cycles more. (Healthy Schools Award).

A map of the village showing the location of the school is on page 5, along with a photo of the children working on the cycleway, (more photos of the project, along with an article from the Whitehaven News, are in appendix 1a.)

Other appendices to back up this section are: • 1b Passenger transport map with Flimby highlighted • 1c Locations of bus stops and the railway station • 1d Bus timetables • 1e Railway timetable • 1f Map of the village showing the route of the Hadrian cycleway (green dots) and Cumbria Coastal Way long distance walk (red diamonds) • 1g Community Travel Plan

The route plotting identified the routes we use to walk, cycle or come by car to school.

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Map of Flimby showing the location of our school.

Helping with the tree planting

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Aims

With a high proportion of children already walking to school, 69%, the Aims of this Travel Plan focused on building on this by improving walking and cycling safety as well as raising awareness and knowledge of transport choices and their implications.

Specifically we aim to:

• To equip pupils with knowledge and skills needed to walk, cycle and use public transport safely • To engender a responsible attitude, in all members of the school community, towards the safety of themselves and others using the roads • To increase awareness amongst pupils, staff and parents about the environmental, safety, health and social consequences of their travel choices. • Improve pupils’ health and fitness levels

Objectives (linked to Action Plan – Section 7)

Our working Group met in September 08 and January 09 to bring together, discuss and agree the Aims, Objectives, Targets and Actions to make our plan successful. To achieve our aims we plan to:

1. Increase travel and health awareness (Table 7.4) 2. Integrate sustainable and healthy travel issues into the curriculum (Tables 7.4 & 7.5) 3. Increase walking and especially cycling facilities (Tables 7.2 & 7.3) 4. Provide cycle training (Table 7.1) 5. Provide pedestrian training (Table 7.1) 6. Produce a termly travel to school newsletter (Table 7.4)

The tables in chapter 7 of this report identifying the actions to achieve these objectives are identified in brackets

6 2 Working party – to develop and implement the plan

Names of people in the working party could include: Co-ordinator (main school contact), Pupils, Staff, Governors, Parents, BWTS Capita Contact, County/Local/Parish Councillors, Police, Outside Agencies, Local bus operators, Members of the local community.

Name Position Responsibility within working party

M Cunningham Head Teacher Chair Lyn Bedford School Administrator Admin Parker Wilkinson School Governor School Environment Advisor Keith Little Local Councillor Advisor Betty Franklin BWTS, Capita Contact BWTS Advisor Kath Stoddart CDC Manager Advisor Rev. K Ellis Local Vicar Advisor Julie Fergusen Clerk to Governors Governor Link Finlay Olstrom Pupil Council Pupil Link Toni-Leigh Daly Pupil Council Pupil Link

How were people consulted? (e.g. working party meetings, surveys of pupils and staff, newsletters)

Name/position Subject/how the consultation took place Date Appendix no.

Stephanie Wilson The Online Pupil Survey took place in June 2008, with 104 Summer 2a (Acting Head) pupils completing a survey. 2008 M Cunningham School Council presentation to Governors 1st Oct 08 2b & 2c Finlay Olstom / Toni- Leigh Daly 2b Governors Agenda 2c School Council Agenda & notes M Cunningham Pupils - Route plotting/planning/ link to community travel plan – Nov 2008 2d – Geog. Lesson (27 pupils from years 5 & 6). The pupils began questionnaire this by discussing how they were going to look at the routes used and and drew up a questionnaire to fill in when they were looking routes at their route to school. The Local community travel plan was identified. used to stimulate discussion on transport issues within the village. Working Group Input to the working group came from pupils, staff, governors, Summer 2e – Notes the local community and BWTS staff. 08 – from the Spring 09 meetings There were 2 Working Group Meetings. The first in September 2008 brought together pupils, staff, governors and local councilors to discuss the school travel plan process and explore the travel issues in the vicinity of the school. The 2 nd in January 2009 used the data collected to formulate the travel plans content.

7 3 Survey and route plotting carried out

Baseline Data Survey

How do you travel to school? Date of No. Bus Car/Van Car Share Cycling Rail Walk Other Year survey of (dd/mm) pupils No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % No % No %

2008 06/08 104 0 0 22 21 2 2 5 5 1 1% 72 69 2 2

How would you like to travel to school? Date of No. Bus Car/Van Car Share Cycling Rail Walk Other Year Survey of (dd/mm) pupils No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % No. %

2008 06/08 76 3 4 15 20 0 0 32 42 4 5 19 25 3 4

Survey Notes

• The 28 children from the infants classes were not asked how they would like to travel to school. • Only one child, who is a ‘Looked After Child’, actually requires a taxi • Only two families of children in school live outside of the catchment area, and both provide their own transport (car) • One child responded that they travel by train but this is incorrect • Almost 69% walk • 5% cycle, but after discussion this only appears to happen when cycling courses are taking place • 42% would like to bike • 5% would like to use the train but this is not feasible, however school intend to look into organizing more trips using the train

Route Plotting Data

Route Plotting Year Date of route plotting Year Groups No. of pupils 2008 November 2008 Yr 5 & 6 27

Route Plotting Notes (e.g. comments made by pupils / any results found)

The children designed their own list of questions to answer whilst they were doing this exercise. Results found for walking to school:- • Many children have to cross more than 3 roads • There are areas within the village where the footpaths come to an end • Children are concerned about speeding outside of the main shop • Children feel more signage is required on the safe back lanes route to school • Parents were more likely to use the car if it was wet. • More would like to use the cycle to get to school but are concerned about road traffic and where to leave bikes securely

Appendix 2d – is an example of the question sheet they agreed upon and examples of responses by 2 pupils. The map shows the walk, cycle and car routes identified.

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4 Summary of transport and road safety issues

Issues were identified from the on-line survey, Community Travel Plan, route plotting and from discussion at the working Group Meeting.

The issues identified were:

• Access almost 70% walk but less walk when it is wet. (class discussion during route planning – November 2008 and discussion by school council in autumn meetings as to why less walked when wet gave the reasons there was nowhere to shelter around the school and they would have to sit in wet clothes) • Cycling to school has the obvious problem of nowhere to store the bikes and no drying facilities in school as well • Ryehill Road side of school has no preventative barriers to stop children running onto the road (school council meeting).

What we already do:

• Walk on Wednesdays See appendix 3a – us with our certificates, • Assemblies, road safety information on a regular basis • Road Safety Project provided by Bridget Stanley, Capita – Pedestrian Awareness • Bikeability Level 1 – 05/09/08 • Bikeability Level 2 – end of every summer term

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5 Working party recommendations for action

Measures the school would like to see happen e.g. cycle storage. N.B. There are no guarantees that these recommendations will be actioned. Advice should be taken from a BWTS advisor on completing this section.

• From the noted increased use of cars in wet weather - encourage parents to promote sensible weather wear and encourage pupils to still walk to school – See objectives 1, 2, 4. 5 & 6 • School wet clothing/drying area – see objective 3 • Provide shelter area in school which will incorporate cycle stands - see objective 3 • Meet with Cumbria Highways Representative, Kevin Cosgrove, to highlight the possibility of incorporating the back lanes as part of the NCR72 Hadrians Cycleway Link and investigate possibility of signage for both roads and back lane to highlight cycle and children use of the back lanes - see objective 3

6 Targets – specific % targets for modal shift by yearly review date

Year 2008

Mode of Travel Baseline Data i.e. original survey % Target percentage for following year

Bus 0 0 not set Car/Van/taxi 23% decrease to 20% Car share 2% 2% maintained Cycle 5% increase to 8% Rail 1% 0 N/A (see note) Walk 69% Increase to sustain at 70 %

Notes • No children currently use a bus to get to school, it was felt that by encouraging use of the bus, we would discourage walking and cycling and hence there would be a conflict with the desire to promote the health benefits of walking and cycling. • Many of those using the car live out of the village, with their nearest public transport links being in the village, however it is felt that a small decrease in car use is viable. We would hope to sustain the car share. • As part of our ‘Healthy Schools’ award we are committed to raising the profile and awareness of the benefits of cycling. School is situated very close to the ‘Hadrian’s wall’, ‘The Reivers’, ‘ The Cumbria Cycleway’ and the ‘Coast to Coast’ cycle routes which offer opportunities for school events involving cycles if we can raise enthusiasm for using cycles. We have set a slightly increased target for cycle use but accept that any significant increase would come from those who already walk to school. • School is only 600 metres from the railway station. Rail travel would only be appropriate for the family who live in Maryport and this percentage is, therefore, fixed unless we have an increase in the number of pupils from there or other towns on the rail line, but this is very unlikely. • As we are a village school and the village is relatively small, walking to school is a very viable option if we can ensure that there is adequate shelter on reaching school when the weather is wet.

10 7 Action plans

7.1 Education and training planned (e.g. Primary: pedestrian skills training / Secondary: teenage cycle training)

Date Completed? Notes/success criteria and risks, including links to Measure Year group Number Cost Action by (dd.mm.yy) (month/year) objectives/targets and issues previously identified

Bikeability Level 1 Year 6 12 FREE 05.09.08 B Stanley September 2008

Walk On Years 5 & 6 70 FREE Ongoing M Cunningham Ongoing See appendix 3a – some of us with our signing up Wednesdays certificates, 70 of us have signed up for this year.

Pedestrian Training Years 1,2,3 59 FREE 15.01.09 Bridget Stanley Postponed – High number of children turned up without waterproofs and 4 - Capita To be re- and the weather on this day was very bad. B.Stanley to arranged organize another date.

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7.2 School based engineering targets (e.g. cycle storage)

Date Completed? Notes/success criteria and risks, including links to objectives/targets Measure Cost Action by (dd.mm.yy) (month/year) and issues previously identified

Outdoor open shelter £12000 - £14000 17.07.09 School Gov. Building Completed appropriate shelter to accommodate parents and estimates Committee and Gov children Finance Committee

Cycle racks £1400 estimates 17.07.09 As above Children will have opportunity to travel to school on cycles and incorporated as part have safe, secure storage as well as somewhere to shelter in wet of the above shelter weather.

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7.3 Long term Road engineering targets Cost will be included if Date approved Notes/success criteria and risks, Action by Completed? Measure approved by Time scale by CCC including links to objectives/targets (month/year) Capita engineer and issues previously identified Engineer Remove the current playground sign on Following fact finding walk through Lowther Street and replacing with 2 signs village these ideas were to be each side of the entrance to the lane. These investigated by the engineer signs would be the same as what is currently As signature on named. These actions, if successful £1,000 2009-10 Capital Highways Dept. on site but minus the playground lettering page 19 would support safe travelling to Programme K.Cosgrove and with yellow backing boards. Adjacent to school by both cyclists and each sign would be a road marking denoting pedestrians. ‘SLOW’. A new sign, the same as those on Lowther As above Street, on Chapel Street for vehicles heading 2009-10 Capital Highways Dept. As signature on £600 East into the village. ‘SLOW’ road markings Programme K.Cosgrove page 19 adjacent to the sign. 'SLOW' road markings at various points along As above Ryehill Road, starting at West Lane and 2009-10 Capital Highways Dept. As signature on £400 terminating at Brook Street. Programme K.Cosgrove page19

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7.4 Promotional/publicity targets

Date Measure Action by Notes (dd.mm.yy)

Photograph and article in the Times and 26th November 2008 Years 5 & 6 Star regarding the Hedge planting carried out at St Helens section of new cycleway

Local and regional newspaper M Cunningham i.e. End of Summer term 2009 and an ‘Official Opening’ of facility in opportunities to be planned at the September 2009 beginning and end of the shelter project

School Newsletter raising awareness of Autumn term 2008, Spring M Cunningham Newsletters will be predominantly aimed at parents and children but will be school based targets regarding walking to term 2009, Summer term displayed in village via shops, Community Development Centre and sent to school, shelter and cycling to school – 2009 and ongoing. local bodies. See Appendix 7a spring term Newsletter.

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7.5 Additional targets/actions taken by the school

Date Measure Action by Notes

Headteacher to contact ‘Sustrans’ to February 2009 M Cunningham To continue the links already established by the tree planting exercise. assess if involvement from that body could be beneficial to the project

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8 Review of targets

This Travel Plan will be a working document and will be reviewed and updated annually every September by the school and the working group. Any review shall be planned to commence before the action plan has run its course to guard against inactivity. The next review will be in September 2009 The school will complete the survey annually in September to access any modal shift which may have occurred. Integration of the STP into the school development/improvement plan is the most effective way to ensure the plan is sustained (attach relevant section of SDP/SIP if applicable).

Survey Results

How do you travel to and from school? Car/Van/ Bus Car Share Cycling Rail Walk Total Taxi Date of no. of survey pupils No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % No. %

Baseline:2008 June 2008 104 0 0 24 23 2 2 5 5 1 1 72 69 Yearly Target % 20 2 8 70 Baseline:2009 Sept 09 Yearly Target % Baseline:2010 Sept 10 Yearly Target %

Comments

• Walking already high but may still increase with sheltering facility in place. • Cycling is an achievable target and again may be even higher with facilities, safer route and awareness raising. Only concern is over cycle conditions and children’s current attitude to the related safety aspects. School will have to add some monitoring actions to routines associated with cycling to school in regard to this issue (Headteacher and Travel to School Working Party)

9 Cycle count

The school is to take a cycle count before and after any improvements to cycle facilities are made. It is also recommended that a cycle count is taken before and after provision of any other measures such as training to show effects.

Cycle Count

Date of count Measure Cycle count Date of count after Cycle count before Implemented May 2009 September 2009

16 10 Monitoring training All activities/training/improvements will be recorded and monitored and notes will be added to the Travel Plan each time something is done.

Year 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Year Year Year Year Year Activity Number Number Number Number Number Group Group Group Group Group Bikeability Level 1 Year 6 12

17 11 Appendices List

The list of appendices to this report are:

1a Working on the Hadrian Cycleway o Photos and o Newspaper Article 1b Cumbria Passenger Transport Map – Flimby highlighted 1c Locations of Bus Stops and Railway Station 1d Bus timetables o Services 30, 30A, 30B (Thornhill, Egremont, Whitehaven, Workington, Flimby, Maryport). o Services 300, 301 (Carlilse, Wigton, Maryport, Flimby , Workington, Whitehaven). 1e Train timetables – Carlisle to Barrow-in-Furness line 1f Hadrian Cycleway and Cumbria Coastal Way map 1g Flimby Community Travel Plan

2a On Line Surveys 2b School Governors Meeting – 6 th October 2008, Agenda and Minutes (pupil put forward the School Council’s ideas on BWTS) 2c School Council Meetings o Agenda & Minutes (plus notes to take to the STP meeting) Meeting 22 nd September 2008 – Before 1 st STP Meeting o Agenda & Minutes meeting 29th September 2008 – after 1 st STP Meeting o Agenda (plus notes from the governors meeting) & Minutes meeting 6 th October 2008 – report back from governors meeting. 2d Route Plotting information o Childrens questions o Walk, cycle and car routes identified. 2e Working Group meeting notes

3a A group of us with our WoW sign up certificates

7a Travel to School Newsletter – January 2009

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12 Signed agreement

Flimby School - Agrees to this School Travel Plan, to undertake its objectives, and to review the Travel Plan on an annual basis. Any review shall be planned to commence before the action plan has run its course to guard against inactivity. This review will also consider pupil travel needs arising from new developments in education and transport provision, and the STP will be revised as necessary to take these in to account.

Signatures Head - teacher Name: Mr Michael Cunningham

Signed:

Date: 30 th January 2009

Chair of Governors Name: Mr J. Nelson

Signed:

Date: 30 th January 2009

Area Engineer Name: Cumbria County Council

Signed:

Date:

BWTS Coordinator Name:

Signed:

Date:

Thank you for completing this School Travel Plan

Please give details of the nominated person who will be responsible for the annual review of the School Travel Plan:

Mr. M. Cunningham ______

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