Vine Parking / Traffic

Modeshift STARS

The centre of excellence for the delivery of effective travel plans.

The scheme recognises schools which have shown excellence in showing supporting cycling, walking and other forms of sustainable and active travel.

Aim

To reduce the number of vehicles coming to the school site.

Objective

Increasing activity levels amongst pupils and staff to reduce the amount of carbon emissions/ pollution and also ensure a high level of safety for pupils due to inconsiderate parking.

Modeshift - Achieving Bronze

At the Vine we have made a commitment to improve the way we travel to school. Our reasons for this are twofold: to make the outside of our school safer for families and staff and to try to do our bit for the environment by cutting our carbon emissions.

After our initial surveys revealed that many of the pupils prefer coming to school without a car we held a ‘walk to school’ week and pupils were given the opportunity to learn road safety through PSHE lessons. We ran balanceability, scootability and bikeability sessions for pupils in Reception, Year 1 and Year 5 and ‘Dr Bike’ paid us a visit in the summer holidays, where some of our less confident pupils learnt to ride their bike.

We have had visits from PCSOs to assess the parking outside school and MRs Richardson was invited to the travel summit held at the Council Offices to discuss the issues faced on Brace Dein and surrounding streets.

We have worked really hard and are proud of having achieved not just the Green award but the Bronze award at the end of the year. As we enter a new school year we are focussing on ‘going for silver’. We have started well with a good number of pupils – and staff – taking part in cycle to school week, and the option of cycling at weekends for those members of the school community who are unable to cycle to school.

We are committed to making the entrance at the back of school as safe as possible, especially now that Gladiator Road is open to 2-way traffic.

We are now working towards the silver award, where our aim is to ensure our yellow lines are not parked on and disabled spaces are only used for those who are eligible. This in turn will increase the safety of our pupils as well as cut polluting fumes directly outside school.

Please continue to help support our commitment to ensuring our pupils arrive at school safely by parking considerately and only driving to school if you have no other option.