School Travel Plan

A School Travel Plan contains a package of measures intended to reduce car dependency and improve safety. It is based on consultation with teachers, parents, pupils and governors and other local people. A joint initiative between the Department for Education and Skills and the Department for Transport has made funding available to promote sustainable, safe and healthy travel to and from school. This includes reducing the number of cars around the school entrance and increasing the proportion of children walking, cycling or using the bus to get to school.

For primary schools £3750 is available, whilst secondary and special schools can claim £5000. In addition to this, an extra £5 per pupil is available for all schools. This funding can be claimed upon successful submission of a completed and signed-off School Travel Plan. It can be spent on capital items within the school grounds which will encourage walking, cycling or bus use, such as a pedestrian shelter, cycle storage or a bus turning circle.

The Highways directorate at North Yorkshire County Council is determined to take full advantage of this opportunity. We have employed a team of school travel experts to assist you, all of whom are experienced teachers. We have also produced a range of resources which will guide you through the process of creating your Travel Plan. We hope you find these resources useful and look forward to working with you.

This Word document is an informative step by step guide to producing a School Travel Plan. It is designed to be accessible to anyone who is interested in assisting with the production of a School Travel Plan, whether they are a teacher, governor or parent.

This Word document is the latest version of our questionnaire. It can be printed out, ready for photocopying. If you would like to use a different questionnaire, please contact the Travel Awareness Team.

This Excel document allows the data from each questionnaire to be entered one by one and converts it into graphs and tables. These can then be printed out and added to your travel plan.

This Word document provides a comprehensive guide to entering data from the parental questionnaire into the parental questionnaire spreadsheet. It is especially useful for those who are not familiar with using spreadsheets.

This Word document is a model travel plan, which you should alter to fit your school's needs. It will then form the basis of your School Travel Plan. All red, blue, or underlined text should be replaced or deleted.

This Word document is a model set of appendices which you will complete with the help of a School Travel Advisor - (see Further Details and Contact Details).

This Word document contains two letters to send out when you consult other people about your School Travel Plan. You will need to print these on your own headed paper.

Hands Up Survey
This word document is a survey of how pupils travel to school and how they would like to travel to school, which is to be completed in class by show of hands. You may have already submitted information on how pupils travel to school in the January school census, in which case go straight to part 2.

This Word document contains contact details for North Yorkshire County Council's Travel Awareness Team. It explains how to gain access to other resources.