Broughton Moor Primary School School Travel Plan

2008/2009

Contents page

1. School details 3

2. W orking party – to develop and implement the plan 6

3. Survey and route plotting carried out 6

4. Summary of transport and road safety problems 8

5. W orking party recommendations for action 9

6. Targets – specific % targets for modal shift by yearly review date 9

7. Action plans 10

8. Review of targets 13

9. Cycle count 13

10. Monitoring training 14

11. Comments and notes 15

12. Signed agreement 16

2 1 School details

DCSF school reference number 909/2103

Type of school Community primary

Number on roll (including no. of SEN pupils with a brief description of subsequent impact on 56 pupils of which 6 are SEN however this bears no impact on travel travel) Number of staff (It is highly recommended that a supplementary 10 Travel Plan for staff and other school users is developed) Age range of pupils 4-11

School contact details

Head teacher Kuldip McMullan Primary School Broughton Moor Address Postcode CA15 7RZ Telephone number 01900812433 Fax 01900812433

Email address [email protected]

Website www.bromoor.cumbria.sch.uk

Working group contact

Name Kuldip McMullan

School Situation and Use The school is located on the main road through the rural village of Broughton Moor. The catchment area for children coming into school is Broughton Moor and the children continue on to Maryport for secondary school.

The School day runs from 8.50 am to 3.15 pm with after school clubs running to 4.30pm

Extra curricular clubs that use the school include: Football, Cricket, Dance, Cheerleading and Bowling – these are community activities.

There are bus services serving the village – they are very infrequent and not convenient for use for this school as does not run on school route (No 35 and No 58). The nearest bus stop is across the road from school. (timetables are included in appendix )

There are no cycle routes in the village and the children walk in from the residential areas which surround the school. The nearest train Stations are Maryport or Flimby. Each station is miles from school and there is no connecting bus service. The school has a Sports Hall and Playgrounds for Infants and Juniors. There are two entrances both of which are pedestrian only. One access is for community use. There is no staff/visitor car park and we do not have a crossing patrol but we are actively trying to recruit one.

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Location map

4 Aims This Travel Plan specifically aims at reducing car journeys to and from school, and reducing/preventing casualties on these journeys.

o To safely reduce the number of people who travel to school by car in favour of using more sustainable modes of transport. (Objectives 4,5,6) o To increase travelling to school on foot and cycle. (Objectives 4,5,6) o To improve pupils health and fitness levels. (Objectives 1,4,5,6) o To improve road and personal safety awareness (Objectives 2,5,6,7) o To reduce congestion and traffic danger around the school (Objective 3)

Objectives To achieve these aims we set up and maintain a school travel plan working party group and set out to:

1. To increase health awareness and physical education (7.5)

2. To include healthy travel issues into the curriculum eg safe route planning in geography, teach pupils how to read public transport timetables, do surveys in ICT on how pupils and parents travel to school. (7.1)

3. To reduce traffic and pollution around the school (7.2)

4. To increase walking and cycling facilities (7.2)

5. Provide cycle training (7.1)

6. Provide pedestrian training (7.1)

7. Promote the school travel plan in assemblies and include in school prospectus. (7.4)

5 2 W orking party – to develop and implement the plan

Name Position Responsibility within working party Kuldip McMullan Head Teacher Chair Lynn hall Administrator Staff Link Mrs McFarland Parent Parent Link PC Jackson Community Police Police Link Mrs Richardson Governor Governor Link Abigail Dowson BWTS Advisor Advisor

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. Pupils Online travel mode survey was completed by all school Autumn 1 years to assess which mode pupils use to get to school Term and how they would like to get to school if they had a choice. Route plotting exercise with year 4 and 5- the pupils plot 2 their route to school on a map highlighting crossing points, factors about the journey to school they consider to be dangerous and mode choice. Staff The staff also completed the online survey which Autumn 1 determines the mode of travel used by staff to get to Term school. Parents Details of the travel plan were included in the school Autumn newsletter which was sent out to all parents. Term A questionnaire survey was sent out to all parents to gain 3/4 their opinion on the journey to school. Working party A working party meeting was held with the relevant 30/09/08 N/A stakeholders including the police, governors and staff.

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 % 20th 08/09 May 47 0 0 15 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 68 0 0 2008

6 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. % 20th 08/09 May 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 24 2 7 6 21 0 0 2008

Survey Notes The above results display the high percentage of pupils that walk to school. The only other mode used to get to school is the car. The school intends to further encourage cycling. There are two pupils out of catchment whose parents live outside of the village who travel by car.

Parents were sent a survey to gain their views on the journey to school. The main concern expressed by parents is in regards to the speed of drivers. They believe drivers speed along the road and with no school crossing patrol officer it is dangerous to cross the road.

Speed is an issue and has been discussed with Police and Parish Council. Speed has been monitored on a number of occasions by the police.

Route Plotting Data

Route Plotting Year Date of route plotting Year Groups No. of pupils 2008/09 9th June 2008 Years 4/5 14

Route Plotting Notes (e.g. comments made by pupils / any results found) Whilst the children were completing their route plotting they were asked to comment on their journey to school.

The children said they liked to walk to school as it is fun and good exercise, but they said they would like to cycle but there is no where safe to store them.

Notes

98% of the children live in the village. 2% travel from outside the village by car, from and Flimby.

3.3% of pupils are SEN but this has no impact on travel habits/modes.

7 4 Summary of transport and road safety problems

Current problems on routes to school, and reasons preventing sustainable travel to school, including how these problems have been identified and when.

The current problems on the route to our school are: • Speeding motorists past school (Parent survey) • No crossing patrol (parent survey) • Zig Zag lines outside the school are in the wrong place (working party meeting) • No safety barrier where pupils exit the school (working party meeting) • Bad parking by parents (working party)

Nothing to stop pupils walking to school but there are no storage facilities for bikes.

Staff parking causes some issues with local residents. There is no staff car park and they have to park on the roadside. As above, all visitors have to park on the roadside. If we are taking the pupils on trips during the school day we have to hire a bus, or if small numbers rely on the goodwill of parents.

‘What we already do’, for example curriculum activities/WOW/road safety policy

Road Safety is covered as a topic in PHSE Cycle and pedestrian awareness is covered as part of the curriculum Positive approach to walking and cycling which is encouraged and incorporated into the PE Curriculum.

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5 W orking party recommendations for action

• To provide Cycle Training for year 5 and 6 (7.1) • To provide Pedestrian training for years 2, 3 and 4 (7.1) • Advertise for a crossing patrol (7.1) • To purchase cycle pods/storage shed (7.2) • Playground markings and resources to teach pedestrian safety and awareness (7.1) • To relocate a safety barrier outside school entrances (7.3) • To extend the zig zag markings to prevent parking (7.3)

The issue of speeding past the school has been targeted in this plan by measures to improve safety of the pupils through training and the recruitment of a crossing patrol.

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 Car/Van/taxi 32 20 Car share 0 0 Cycle 0 12 Rail 0 0 Walk 68 68

Notes A variety of measures will be implemented to achieve these targets. We aim to reduce car use and increase cycling. To achieve this modal shift the school intends to install cycle storage to give the pupils somewhere safe to put their bike if they cycle to school, employ a crossing patrol officer to help the pupils cross the road and encourage walking, provide cycle or pedestrian training to pupils.

9 7 Action plans

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

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

Cycle training 5 and 6 15 £50.00 12/01 – Cyclewise January 2009 To sustain the cycle training for year 5 and 6 16/01/200 To increase the number of children cycling to 9 school by 5% by September 2009 (Objective 5) Pedestrian 2 3 and 24 £100.00 Summer Bridget To increase the number of children walking to training 4 2009 Stanley school by 5% by September 2009 (Objective 6)

Playground All 55 £500.00 Spring Mrs To increase safety awareness on and around markings and 2010 McMullan roads. resources to Sovereign (Objectives 2 & 6) teach pedestrian Playgrounds safety and awareness

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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

To purchase cycle Unknown Health and Safety Autumn 2009 Encourage more children to cycle to school pods/storage shed Governor (Objective 4)

7.3 Long term Road engineering targets Cost will be included if Date approved Action by e.g. Completed? Notes/success criteria and risks, including links to Measure approved by Time scale by CCC traffic engineer (month/year) objectives/targets and issues previously identified Capita engineer Engineer Relocate safety £1000 Traffic Safety of pupils when leaving school premises barrier outside engineer (Objective 3) school entrances

To extend the zig £1000 Traffic To reduce traffic congestion outside school and zag markings to engineer ensure safety of children prevent parking (Objective 3)

11 7.4 Promotional/Publicity Targets

Measure Time scale Action by Notes

Have included details in September 2008- Mrs Raise awareness of the travel plan within the school school news letters and January 2009 McMullan (Objective 1) school notice board.

Include the travel plan in Summer 2009 Mrs To make new parents/pupils aware of the travel plan and the different ways of the prospectus and as part McMullan getting to school of school open days. (Objective 7)

7.5 Additional Targets/Actions taken by the school

Measure Time scale Action by Notes Cumbria Healthy 2006-to present N/A Walking and cycling to school contributes to pupils health and fitness Schools 2006 (Objectives 1 & 3)

Sportsmark 2007 2008 N/A If walking and cycling to school, the pupils fitness improves and they are made more Activemark 2008 aware of the importance of exercise which in turn encourages the pupils to take part Rock Challenge 2008 in sport. (Objectives 1 & 3) Advertise for a crossing Present Cumbria We are trying to recruit a crossing patrol to improve the safety for children crossing patrol County the road to access to the school Council (Objective 4)

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8 Review of targets

This Travel Plan will be a working document and will be reviewed and updated annually every May by Mrs McMullan 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 May 2009. The school will complete the survey annually in February to assess 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? Bus Car/Van Car Share Cycling Rail Walk Total Date of no. of survey pupils No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % No. %

Baseline:2008 20/05/09 29 0 0 15 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 68 Yearly Target % 0 20 0 12 0 68 Baseline:2009 Yearly Target % Baseline:2010 Yearly Target %

Comments

9 Cycle count

Cycle Count

Date of count Measure Cycle count Date of count after Cycle count before Implemented 13/02/2009 0 None at present. N/A 0 Measures included in plan

13 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 Pedestrian training Years 2 ,3 24 and 4

Cycle training Years 5 & 15 6

14 11 Comments and notes

Pedestrian Training for KS1

Appendices

1 Online survey results

2 Route plotting master map

3 Parent Questionnaire survey

4 Results of parent questionnaire survey

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12 Signed agreement

Broughton Moor Primary 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: Kuldip McMullan

Signed:

Date: 23rd February 2009

Chair of Governors Name: Paul Bell

Signed:

Date: 23rd February 2009

Area Engineer Name:

Signed:

Date:

BWTS Coordinator Name:

Signed:

Date:

Thank yo u 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:

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Kuldip McMullan

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