School Travel at Eglinton
At Eglinton, 84% of our children sustainably travel to school and we are currently in our 9th Year of achieving our GOLD standard award from Transport for London. We encourage all our children to walk, scoot or cycle to school. In school, we have cycle and scooter parking facilities for our children to leave their bikes and scooters in safety. During the school year, we endeavour to engage our whole school community in the events and promotions we take part in.
Road Safety Skills Training
In March every year we co-ordinate with the Road Safety Team at Greenwich to ensure that Reception to Year 6 have Road Safety Training. Each workshop is designed to teach our children the essential life skills in develop into independent travellers. The workshops look at all aspects of travelling safely in relation to the year group.
TIGERS
We started our TIGERS independent travel programme in 2022-2023, and have been running it successfully every year since. We met with our Road Safety team from Greenwich and they came in to support the delivery of the programme. This supports our vulnerable children in year 5 and 6 to become independent travellers. These children have learnt essential skills to support their transition into secondary school. They are continuing to use these skills with their parents and families.
Junior Travel Ambassadors
We have three Junior Travel Ambassadors who are in Year 5. Our Junior Travel Ambassadors have had a busy year in organising events such as Car Free Day, Cycle and Scoot to School Week, Be Bright & Be Seen, Walk to School Week, Clean Air Day and Street Tag launch. They are very pro-active and always willing to talk to our children and families if they have questions regarding school travel. They attended TFL’s Annual Convention at Charlton Football ground on 7th November 2024. During the day they were able to meet other children from different schools from across the borough and exchange ideas.
Bikeability
Our Year 6 children are given the opportunity to participate in Bikeability training in January. This is very popular and gives children the opportunity to complete their level 2 Bikeability training, which means they have to necessary skills to be able to safely ride a bike on the road. These are essential life skills and gives the child the ability use them to travel sustainably throughout their life.
ZIP Oystercards for Year 6 Children
We ensure that our year 6 children have applied for their ZIP Oystercard, which will enable them to access FREE travel until they are 16 years old.
Our Year 6 children attend Junior Citizenship Day every June which is organised by the Road Safety team in Greenwich. This workshop supports children in thinking and planning the way they will be travelling to school. The children visit mini workshops, covering topics such as:
- - Road Safety
- - Personal Safety
- - Fire Safety
- - First Aid
- - Tube and Bus Safety
- - Dog Safety
Scooter fun!
Many of our children now ride scooters to school. In March 2023, we had a Scoot Fit Day for KS1 children. They learnt the essential skills to ride safely with their scooters.
Air Quality/Local Environmental Survey
Our Junior Travel Ambassadors attended an Air Quality Convention at Charlton House on 8th June 2023, to learn and discuss with other school the issues around air quality in Greenwich. The JTA’s will be conducting more Air Quality experiments throughout next year (2023/24) so we are able to measure the air quality around our school in the different seasons. We will be able to discuss this with our School Travel Planning Co-Ordinator in Greenwich and our local councillor.
We ask parents/carers to complete our survey regarding the local environment, as this is what our children see when coming into school every day. We compare the responses to this survey every year to analyse what has improved and what still needs to be addressed.