School Travel Plans
School Travel Outcomes Document
This School Travel Outcomes Document replaces the previous School Travel Plan and School Travel Plan Monitoring and Reviewing
Documents. Annually updating this Document will help your school to record and monitor travelling to school improvements and
should be co-ordinated with the School Development Plan.
Did you know…?
Setting outcomes to improve active and sustainable travel to school links well with Healthy Schools physical activity outcomes, as
well as helping your school reduce carbon emissions and improving green credentials. In addition, it can help reduce congestion
around your school gates, making the environment safer and more pleasant for your pupils and the school community.
If you do not currently have an up-to-date School Travel Plan…
…you can still use this document to set out your school’s travel priorities, outcomes and milestones for the year ahead and work with
it.
Step 1 – Look through your existing Travel Plan and familiarise yourself with the objectives, targets and actions
Have you achieved what you set out to achieve? If not what were the barriers?
Step 2 – Take a good look at the School Travel Outcomes Document attached
We have made some suggestions for setting priorities, outcomes and milestones, which give a good starting point.
Step 3 – Draw your school community in to the process
You will need to provide new travel data on how your pupils travel to school, which will help raise the profile of the School Travel
Outcomes Document amongst pupils and staff as well as providing vital information for you to set targets and actions for the coming
year. In order to get a good idea of the travel issues that your school faces you should survey your parents/carers, staff and
governors as well as your pupils.
Step 4 – Complete your School Travel Outcomes Document
Step 5 – Send us a copy!
For further information and support please contact: Iain Watson, Senior Road Safety Officer –
Email: iain.watson @suffolk.gov.uk Tel: 01284 758843
1. School details
School name & DFE number
Lead contact name
Contact tel. no.
Contact e-mail
Date of last review of School Travel
Plan
Any significant changes since original
plan or last review (e.g. NOR, school
times, major building work, new travel
issues etc)
2. New travel data
To assess how well your initiatives have worked in reducing car trips in the last 12 months, you need to repeat a Hands-Up Survey
and complete the table below. Compare your new data with your previous data (in your last Travel Plan or annual review) and
then set new SMART targets for the next year. (A hands-up survey is available from your travel planner).
Mode of Travel
Previous Travel Data
(Carry out Hands up Survey)
Give month and year
of survey
Number
Car/van
Car share with friends (not
siblings)
Walk/scooter
Cycle
Public Bus
Dedicated School Bus
Bus – type unknown
Taxi
Train
Other
Total pupils surveyed
Total pupils on roll
%
Data from new
survey
Targets for 12months
time
Give month and year
of survey
Give month and year of
next survey
Number
Number
%
%
3. Set priorities, outcomes and milestones
Please use the plan below to set your priorities, outcomes and milestones. You can have more than 1 priority if you like, with as
many outcomes necessary to achieve your priorities with details of ways in which you intend to achieve them. The milestones
column is for you to record your success throughout the year at reaching your outcomes. Some suggestions have been made for
you, but you should tailor these to suit your school.
Priority (overall aim)
(EXAMPLE)
More pupils and staff to
travel to school by
sustainable means
Outcome (please set a
measurable target and a
time scale)
(EXAMPLE)
Increase numbers of pupils
walking to school from 52% to
62% by September 2012 and
to 70% by September 2013
Initiatives to reach
outcome
(EXAMPLE)
Themed walks to encourage
walking to school
(EXAMPLE)
Use the
www.suffolkroadsafe.net/
Increase number of staff
waytogo website to find
walking to school from 2% to new ways to encourage
5% by September 2012 and to walking and cycling
8% by September 2013
(EXAMPLE)
Staff to be encouraged in
staff meetings
(EXAMPLE)
(EXAMPLE)
Increase cycling to school
Carry out gate reports to
from 0% to 10% for pupils
discover how walking and
and staff by May 2013
cycling environment can be
improved and take steps to
make these improvements,
for instance contacting road
safety team.
Cycle to work scheme to be
promoted to staff.
Milestone (report your success throughout the yearcomplete this column when you reach them)
(EXAMPLE)
Cyclist training offered to all
eligible pupils.
Improve cycle storage on
school premises.
(EXAMPLE)
Award Golden Boot to class
with those walking or cycling
greatest distance
Now create your own!
Once you have a completed your School Travel Outcomes Document please email to [email protected] or post
to Iain Watson, West Suffolk House, Western Way, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 3YU.