School Transport and Travel Guide 2019- 2020 School Bus Routes South Oval A508 1 Botmead Road Kings Heath A43 3 2 (PM only) Kingsthorpe 1 1 SPRATTON/BRIXWORTH Park Drive Golf Club 2 Ecton Brook Road 2 HOLLOWELL & EAST/WEST HADDON (AM only) Queens 3 A45 Park Racecourse Pavilion 4 3 Birds Hill Road Parade Road 4 NEWPORT PAGNELL 4 Edgemont Road Timken Way 5 5 BRACKLEY 8 6 Burtram Close South 9 7 6 DAVENTRY Northampton NORTHAMPTON 5 Billing Road East Cavendish Drive 8 KETTERING & LOCAL ROUTE A428 A508 6 Billing Road East from Leicester Welcome 10 NORTHAMPTON Wisteria Way 7 Billing Road East Other Long Distance Services Ardlington Road Stagecoach bus route X7 runs from Leicester McKinley Court A5076 Tresham and connects with Stagecoach bus route 7 at 8 St. Edmunds Steet (PM only) Dear Parent, NORTHAMPTON Lake Avenue College Northampton Bus Interchange (Bay 18). Bignal Court Windmill Ave. HIGH SCHOOL 9 Abington Square Kettering Taxi shuttle 7 runs non-stop from railway station. (bus stop ‘A2’) Barton Thank you for taking the time to look at our bus routes that serve the school and rail Taxi shuttle 9 runs non-stop from Northampton railway station. Boardman Kettering Seagrave Road Warkton School Transport and Travel Guide for the 2019- services to Northampton and Bedford stations. Lake Avenue Symbols from Market Harborough Lane and Leicester Broughton A14 2020 academic year. This is our second such Some school bus routes are operated with Rail interchange Red Lion Lamport guide, and we have produced it in order to coaches supplied by Country Lion and Poynters, Bus stop (see also right and below) The Swan Burton Latimer provide a holistic overview of the different ways and others are operated directly by the school Rugby Hotel Hanging Houghton Maybury West Haddon Guilsborough Manor Road Motors The Green that girls can travel to and from Northampton using our own fleet of minibuses. from Old Birmingham Spratton Road Cherry Hill High School. and Crewe Hollowell Brixworth from Bedford Orchard Close Village Store and London Spratton All the vehicles used to operate our school bus Brixworth Holcot Road The Green To assist you in planning your journey to school, routes and taxi shuttle services are maintained Chapel Orlingbury St. Mary’s Church Brampton you can use our interactive journey planning to a high standard, with seatbelts fitted to East Haddon Spencer Arms Pitsford Pitsford Turn Wellingborough website for our school bus service, available at every seat. The drivers on these routes are all Wentworth Avenue northamptonhigh.vectare.co.uk. From here, you DBS checked. Poynters, Country Lion, our taxi Boughton Long Buckby Turn 6 Boughton 5 can enter your postcode, find your closest bus operators and indeed our own drivers all have 4 8 Wellingborough Great Brington 7 The Priory Post Office stop(s) and view bespoke travel information for a track record of delivering exceptionally high A43 Ecton Brook Daventry Hotel Worlds End Pub your daughter’s journey to school. standards of safety and customer service. Sedgemoor Way 4

3 The website also allows you to book a journey We hope that you are able to find a travel 2 The Square White Hart 24/7 from anywhere in the world, meaning that solution that works for you and your daughter. If A5 Flore 1 2 if you need to leave early for work one morning you need any further assistance, or you would 3 1 4 Old Red Lion Northampton or you’re running late and you would like your like to discuss travel options from areas not Badby Weedon Main Street Kislingbury daughter to travel on a school bus as a one-off, currently served by our school bus network, Crossroads Johns Road A45 Bugbrooke M1 Great Houghton 3 Bus Shelter you can make a booking right up until the bus please contact us via the school transport Nether Bus Stops where there Heyford 2 NORTHAMPTON is due to leave your stop. Billing for our school website, or email [email protected], and is insufficient space to Five Bells Church Lane HIGH SCHOOL bus service has not changed; you will still be we will be pleased to assist. name them on the map 1 Yardley Hastings A428 billed for all journeys made via your ParentPay SPRATTON/BRIXWORTH High Street High Street/Baker Street 1 Rushmere Road Gayton Grange Park account. I would like to wish your daughter a pleasant and Rushmere Crescent Georges Drive (Saxon Avenue) successful academic year. 2 Park Avenue South (PM only) Christchurch Road A509 Blisworth Our school bus network is extensive, with direct A43 3 Park Avenue North Royal Oak Roade Colsons Way St. Gregorys Church Churchcroft Olney, School routes from Kettering, Milton Keynes, Brackley, Kind regards, (London Road) Olney Dartmouth 4 Lumbertubs Pub Olney Daventry and Wellingborough, along with shuttle The Bull Road Kettering Road North M1 (Queen Emberton Hotel) services from Northampton and Bedford railway 5 Moulton Bridge Road Stoke Bruerne The Bell & Bear stations. Anne Headley Cottingham Drive Brackley Road Towcester Towcester 6 Moulton Northampton Road Director of Finance and Operations Rose Tree Close (PM only) This booklet contains information about the 7 Boughton The Green White Hart Pub The Knoll A509 school bus routes and taxi shuttle services that Weston Grafton Regis Sherington 8 Boughton The Crown A5 we arrange directly, along with local Stagecoach Vyse Road Wappenham The Lane HOLLOWELL & Helmdon Primary School EAST/WEST HADDON Silverstone Red House Pub Croft Stores Newport Pagnell 1 The Avenue Boots Dallington A43 A5 Wolverton M1 Warwick Avenue 2 Wrenbury Road (PM only) Grage Prestbury Road Hyundai Garage Lay-by Old Stratford Broughton Saxon Bridge Countess Way Next steps Old Stratford A5 3 Harpole Willen Wharf Close (PM only) Post Office Granville Oakgrove Brackley Radstone Road Square Roundabout 4 Holdenby Road Hawthorne Drive Milton Keynes North Stables Lane 1. Purchase a bus pass or book individual journeys at 3. Sit back and relax knowing that your daughter will Dansteed Way Central Cornhill from northamptonhigh.vectare.co.uk. enjoy safe travel to and from school. and London DAVENTRY Pascal Drive Tewkesbury 1 East Hunsbury Fulmer Street Lane Rowtree Road 2. You will receive a confirmation email and your travel 4. If you have any issues or questions, complete our Childs Way 2 West Hunsbury HMP Woodhill Livesey Hill Chase will be booked. If travelling regularly, girls will be Contact Us form on the website and someone will get Hunsbury Hill Road Wisewood Road Avenue Alton Gate 3 Banbury Lodge Garthwaite Crescent issued with a bus pass. back to you very shortly. Lockgate Road Bowland Drive 3 Gambrel Road Sixfields Retail Park © Vectare 2019 www.vectare.co.uk 2.10.2019 4 Newport Pagnell Stop AM PM School bus routes Milton Keynes, Broughton, Countess Way, bus stop junction of Warwick Avenue 07:10 17:100 Bus stop south of Chase Avenue, Brickhill Street, South of Dunchurch Dale for return journey 07:20 16:50 Milton Keynes, Brickhill Street (V10), bus stop between Kents Hill R'bout and Oakgrove r'bout, Pick up 1 Spratton / Brixworth 07:25 16:45 stop south of Tewkesbury Lane, north for drop off. Stop AM PM First Bus Stop after Oakgrove Roundabout Brickhill St (V10) MK (PM only) - 16:44 Old, Cherry Hill Bus Stop 07:05 17:05 Granville Square, Willen, Milton Keynes 07:30 16:39 Brixworth, Holcot Road, junction Tantree Way 07:16 16:56 The Red House Pub, Wolverton Rd, Newport Pagnell 07:34 16:35 Spratton, outside Spratton Village Store on Brixworth Road, junction of Sandhills 07:25 16:47 Newport Pagnell, Boots 07:37 16:32 Chapel Brampton, outside The Spencer Arms 07:32 16:40 Sherington, The Knoll 07:44 16:25 Boughton, bus stop on Vyse Rd by Harborough Road roundabout. 07:37 16:38 Emberton, The Bell and Bear 07:50 16:19 Boughton, The Green, Humfrey Lane/Howard Lane junction 07:40 16:35 Olney, The Bull 07:55 16:14 Moulton , junction of Rose Tree Close 07:47 16:25 Olney, opposite The Queen Hotel Wellingborough Rd 07:57 16:12 Moulton, Bus stop at Northampton Lane South, junction of Cottingham Drive 07:55 16:15 Olney, Colson Way / Yardley Road 07:59 16:10 Lumbertubs Pub, bus stop on Kettering Road North 08:00 16:10 Yardley Hastings PO 08:02 16:06 Park Avenue North, bus stop outside St Gregorys Church 08:05 16:05 Great Houghton, White Hart 08:12 15:55 Junction of Christchurch and Park Avenue South 08:09 16:00 Northampton High School 08:20 15:45 Operated by Country Lion Rushmere Road/Rushmere Crescent (Billing Road End) 08:14 15:55 Northampton Hgh School 08:25 15:45 5 Brackley Operated with a school minibus Stop AM PM Brackley, Radstone Road, Bus stop just before Hawthorn Drive 07:00 17:07 2 Hollowell & East / West Haddon Helmdon, Primary School 07:07 17:00 Weston, car park The Crown Inne 07:14 16:51 Stop AM PM Hollowell, Orchard Close 07:00 17:00 Wappenham, end of The Lane 07:23 16:42 Guilsborough, The Green, primary school lay-by 07:04 16:53 Silverstone, Croft Stores 07:33 16:25 West Haddon, opposite Pytchley Hotel in Northampton Road 07:10 16:45 Brackley Road, Towcester 07:42 16:15 East Haddon, bus stop near church 07:18 16:37 Northampton Road, Towcester (PM only) - 16:10 Holdenby Road, junction of Stables Lane 07:26 16:31 Gayton, corner of High Street & Baker Street 07:49 16:05 Great Brington, Main Street, The Green just past the Post Office 07:35 16:18 Blisworth, Layby by The Royal Oak 07:53 16:00 Harpole, corner of Manor Close and Carrs Way 07:45 16:08 Northampton High School 08:15 15:45 During periods of inclement weather, this bus follows an alternative route. Check online for full details. Wrenbury Road, junction of Prestbury Road, Duston 07:50 16:03 Operated by Country Lion The Avenue, Dallington 08:00 15:55 Northampton High School 08:25 15:45 6 Daventry Operated by Poynters Coaches Stop AM PM Daventry Hotel, Sedgemoor Way (A361) 07:10 17:05 Badby Main Street outside Windmill Inn 07:22 16:55 3 Milton Keynes Weedon Crossroads (A45), bus stop 07:30 16:47 Stop AM PM Flore, High Street near PJ Greens/White Hart 07:33 16:44 Milton Keynes,Tattenhoe Street (V2), bus stop south of junction with Bowland Drive & Langerstone Lane 07:05 17:10 Nether Heyford, end of Watery Lane, village green 07:37 16:40 Milton Keynes, Tattenhoe Street (V2) bus stop after Garthwaite Crescent, just after bridge 07:11 17:00 Bugbrooke bus stop outside The Five Bells, Church Lane 07:39 16:37 Milton Keynes, Tattenhoe Street (V2) bus stop after Wisewood Road 07:16 16:55 Bugbrooke, junction Kislingbury Road & Johns Road 07:42 16:30 Milton Keynes, Fulmer Street (V3), bus stop north of junction with Vache Lane & Pascal Drive 07:21 16:50 Kislingbury, Olde Red Lion, High Street 07:47 16:25 Childs Way/ Jtn with Fortescue Drive and Livesey Hill. (AM: Childs Way, PM: South side) 07:27 16:45 Gambrel Road, bus stop at Sixfields Retail Park 07:55 16:10 Milton Keynes, Danstead Way (H4), bus stop near to Jnc with Stainton Drive/Burnham Drive (PM only) - 16:40 Banbury Lane opposite Lockgate Rd (PM only) - 16:05 Milton Keynes, Dansteed Way (H4), bus stop west of Jn with Kensington Drive and High Street 07:38 16:35 West Hunsbury, Hunsbury Hill Road, bus stop junction of Hawkridge 08:00 16:00 Stratford Road, bus stop opposite SaxonBridge.com garage 07:48 16:25 East Hunsbury, Rowtree Road, bus stop just after Danes Camp Surgery 08:04 15:55 Old Stratford, bus Stop on Towcester Road opposite Wharf Close (AM only) 07:55 - Northampton High School 08:15 15:45 Operated with a school minibus Old Stratford, layby outside Hyundai Garage (PM only) - 16:18 Grafton Regis, A508 White Hart Pub 08:00 16:08 7 Bedford Stoke Bruerne, Bus stop on Bridge Road just past Stoke Bruerne Locks (AM only) 08:02 - Roade, London Road, Bus stop lay-by 08:10 16:00 Rail Services to Bedford Station - Taxi Shuttle to school Grange Park, Saxton Avenue Jnc of Georges Drive (PM only) - 15:50 Northampton High School 08:20 15:45 : 05:27 from Three Bridges Operated by Country Lion (07:03), Parkway (07:08), Luton (07:13), Leagrave (07:16), Harlington (07:21), Flitwick (07:25), Bedford (07:38)

East Midlands Railway: 07:04 from London St Pancras Request stop Local fare Rail station Routes are subject to review and alteration Luton (07:27), Bedford (07:41) Timetable continued… Fares for school bus routes

Number of journeys per week Price per term 8 Kettering / Wellingborough 5 £225 Stop AM PM 6 £270 Broughton, Bus Stop, High St, opposite Church St junction 07:00 17:10 7 £315 Kettering, bus stop on Lake Avenue, opposite Co-op (PM only) - 17:00 8 £360 Kettering, Bus stop, Lake Ave, opposite Boardman Road 07:08 16:58 Kettering, bus stop opposite McKinley Court 07:14 16:52 9 £400 Kettering, outside One Stop, Haynes Road 07:18 16:48 10 £445 Barton Seagrave, layby in Barton Road 07:26 16:44 Taxi Shuttle (10 trips per week) £185 Burton Latimer, High St, bus stop by MayBury Motors 07:31 16:34 The Green, Orlingbury 07:42 16:22 • A 50% sibling discount is offered when a parent books more than one daughter onto a bus route, Wellingborough, bus stop on Wentworth Avenue, off Gleneagles Drive 07:52 16:18 as long as all passengers are booked on in one booking.

Wellingborough A45 McDonalds Roundabout, pick up and drop off in Priory Pub car park 07:59 16:11 • A 50% discount is applied in the summer term for girls in Years 11 & 13 due to study leave and the Earls Barton, The Square 08:06 16:05 public examination period. Worlds End Public House on A4500, Ecton Brook 08:10 16:00 Sign up to our • A 50% discount is applied to journeys to/from stops marked as having a local fare. Northampton High School 08:25 15:45 school bus Operated by Poynters service • A single journey is charged at £5.00 (no discount applied) if booked in advance at 9 Rail Station northamptonhigh.vectare.co.uk. • A single homeward journey may be booked by pupils through the School Office on the day of Rail Services to Northampton Station - Taxi Shuttle to school travel.

West Midlands Trains: 06:34 from London Euston Harrow & Wealdstone (06:46), Watford Junction (06:54), Kings Langley (06:59), Apsley (07:02), Hemel Hempstead (07:05), Berkhamsted (07:10), Terms & Conditions of Carriage Tring (07:15), Cheddington (07:20), Leighton Buzzard (07:25), Bletchley (07:32), Milton Keynes Central (07:37), Wolverton (07:41), Northampton (07:53) 1. This agreement is made between all school bus as a one-off, you should book travel via the website prior passengers, their parents and Northampton High School to travel. A charge of £5.00 per single journey is levied for : 06:54 from Birmingham New Street in order to provide safe, comfortable and civilised individual trips. Marston Green (07:02), Birmingham International (07:05), Hampton-in-Arden (07:08), Berkswell (07:13), Canley (07:17), Coventry (07:21), Rugby journeys for all passengers. 9. No pupil is permitted to travel on the School Bus Service (07:32), Long Buckby (07:41), Northampton (07:54) 2. Arrangements for pupils’ journeys to and from school if not pre booked for that bus, as they will not necessarily West Midlands Trains: 07:13 from London Euston are the responsibility of their parents. To assist with be insured to travel. Other arrangements for journeys to discharging this responsibility, Northampton High School and from School must be made by them or their parents. Leighton Buzzard (07:42), Bletchley (07:50), Milton Keynes Central (07:54), Wolverton (07:58), Northampton (08:10) provides a School Bus Service. 10. Pupils who travel on the School Bus Service without 3. Transport on the School Bus Service must be arranged permission from Northampton High School will have a in advance and is paid for through the school account standard penalty fare added to the school account. (ParentPay). 10 Northampton 11. Pupils must travel to and from Northampton High School 4. Bookings on the School Bus Service are non-refundable in full school uniform or a full school tracksuit. Stop AM PM in the event of a pupil failing to travel. Regular travel 12. Good conduct is required at all times. Bullying, shouting, Main Road Duston, bus stop after Timken Way South 07:00 17:03 for fewer than ten journeys per week must be booked for a full academic year, and the days of travel must be use of foul language, dropping litter, playing music, or any Kings Heath Park Drive, junction of South Oval 07:08 16:55 consistent from week to week. other misbehaviour is strictly forbidden. Queens Park Parade, bus stop just after Thornton Road junction, opposite Aldi 07:14 16:48 5. Bookings are to be made online via 13. Except when embarking or disembarking, all passengers Kingsley Road, bus stop outside Kingsthorpe Golf Club 07:16 16:45 northamptonhigh.vectare.co.uk. must remain seated with their seatbelts fastened correctly. Links View, Hazeldene Road, junction of Kenmuir Avenue 07:20 16:42 14. Whilst on a School Bus, all passengers must accept Kettering Road, bus stop junction of Hood Street 07:27 16:35 6. Each pupil for whom an online form has been submitted will be added to a bus list detailing the service they travel without question the authority of a member of Abington Square, Jaguar Garage 07:30 16:30 on, their bus stop and what travel has been paid for. Northampton High staff, transport company official, school St Edmunds Street 07:34 16:27 Regular travellers will be issued with a bus pass, that they prefect or bus monitor, who may ask them to obey any reasonable instruction such as to pick up litter, desist from Billing Road East, bus stop after Ardington Rd, opposite Northampton School for Boys 07:41 16:21 must carry at all times whilst travelling on the School Bus Service. This bus pass must be shown on request to a bus certain actions or to move to a different seat. Billing Road East, bus stop just after Wisteria Way 07:45 16:17 driver or member of Northampton High School staff. Billing Road East, junction of Cavendish Drive 07:50 16:12 15. Failure to comply with these conditions may result in 7. It will be the parent’s responsibility to inform the School disciplinary action, including temporary or permanent Edgemont Road, corner of Burtram Close 07:55 16:07 via the Contact Us form on the website if they no longer withdrawal of permission to use the School Bus Service. Birds Hill Road, North Priors Court, Lings 08:02 16:00 wish for their child to use the School Bus Service. One 16. Northampton High School aims for 95% of journeys to A4500 Bus stop just after Ecton Brook Rd (AM only) 08:07 - full term’s notice must be given by a parent prior to the operate within the industry window of tolerance of one removal of a pupil from the School Bus Service. A4500 Bus stop just after Botmead Road (PM only) - 15:55 minute early to five minutes late, however timings may vary Northampton High School 08:20 15:45 8. If you wish for your child to use the School Bus Service on due to traffic conditions or unforeseen circumstances. Operated by Country Lion an ad hoc basis, or to vary the details of their bus travel Drivers will not wait past the scheduled departure time.

Request stop Local fare Rail station Routes are subject to review and alteration Other routes Stagecoach 7 Stop AM PM Grange Park, Lake 07:52 16:11 Wootton, Church Hill 08:02 16:06 Hardingstone, Edwardian Close for Northampton High School 08:05 15:57 Stop AM PM Moulton Park, Boarden Close 07:15 17:22 Moulton Park, Nationwide 07:26 17:21 Moulton Park, Howards Way 07:33 17:13 Boothville, St Gregory’s Primary School 07:44 17:02 Northampton Bus Interchange (bay 8) 08:08 16:46 Delapre, Forest Road 08:15 16:29 Hardingstone, Edwardian Close for Northampton High School 08:18 16:14

Stagecoach X7

Stop AM PM Market Harborough, The Square (stand S1) 07:05 18:05 Kelmarsh, Hall Lodge 07:15 17:54 Lamport, The Swan PH 07:21 17:47 Hanging Houghton, Manor Road 07:22 17:46 Brixworth, Spratton Road 07:24 17:42 Pitsford, Pitsford Turn 07:26 17:37 Boughton, Boughton Turn 07:28 17:33 Northampton Bus Interchange (bay 5) 08:02 17:16 Change to / from Stagecoach bus route 7 Northampton Bus Interchange (bay 8) 08:08 16:46 Hardingstone, Edwardian Close for Northampton High School 08:18 16:14

Other transport

Bikes Pupils are welcome to cycle to school, with bike racks located near the Sports Centre.

Cars After receiving permission from the Deputy Director of Sixth Form, Sixth Form pupils are welcome to drive to school. Parking is available at the rear of the campus, and is accessed via the main entrance. Permission is only granted once pupils have passed their practical driving test and completed the relevant forms. Girls must obey road markings and signs at all times.

Taxis The school’s recommended taxi supplier is Mayfair Taxis of Northampton. They can be contacted on 01604 631 1111.

Timetable, route and fare information is correct as of October 2019. This guide is produced for information only. We cannot be held liable for any errors or omissions or for any loss or damages caused, howsoever arising and including consequential losses, as a result of the use of this School Transport and Travel Guide. Please note that school bus routes are subject to change.

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