Safe and Active Travel
Safe and Active Travel Plan
Warwick Bear
Warwick Bear
Warwick Bear is always present at our Road Safety talks by WCC and we also have a giant model of him next to our Road safety Board.
He is also present in our EYFS classroom and children are able to take him and the Scrap Book home. In this, they can evidence their road safety skills and can then bring him and the Scrap Book back to school to share their experiences with the other children.
Our Junior Road Safety Officers 2023-2024
Junior Road Safety Officers
Our JRSOs will be responsible for disseminating news about road safety including safe travel between home and school.
They will run competitions around road safety and they will help Mrs Field to promote safe and active travel to school.
Spring Term 2024
They have launched a competition to design a cycle helmet. They have designed the template themselves, made a collection box for entries, spoke to the whole school in Celebration Assembly to launch the competition and have judged over 25 entries.
Henley in Arden Church of England Primary School achieved the BRONZE award in 2021-2022, the SILVER award in 2022-2023 and is now taking part once again in the Safe and Active Schools Programme this year, to aim for the GOLD award. The programme has been developed to promote and support road safety and active travel activities. It is designed to help schools encourage active travel journeys whether that be for the whole journey by walking, cycling, or scooting or for part of the journey using park and stride modes.
Active travel is proven to have many benefits for our children. With only fifteen minutes of exercise done through active travel, a child’s mood can be improved, and concentration increased by up to 4 hours. This is a great way to meet the NHS’ recommendation for children to have sixty minutes of exercise per day.
Have you thought about changing #JustOneJourney per week? Why not consider Scoot / Bike /Walk on Wednesdays, or if you can’t do the full journey actively, consider parking ten minutes away from the school and walking in?
To help your child(ren) become more active on the school journey, a list of useful resources can be found at the links below. You can also find more information on Warwickshire Road Safety Education’s dedicated Facebook page @WCCSafeActiveTravel and Twitter page @WCCSafe_Active