The Safe and Active Schools Programme has been developed to promote and support road safety and active travel activities in schools across Warwickshire. 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.
What is the Active Travel Award and how do we complete it
Schools achieve the Active Travel Award by completing a set of road safety and active travel activities throughout the year. A handbook containing a choice of activities is provided by email and is available as a paper copy on request. Each activity has a ‘points’ value of either 1, 2 or 3 and are earned when activities are completed. It is important that these are tallied up throughout the year.
The minimum number of points which should be completed for the award 12 which will earn you a Bronze Award. Simply choose the activities that you want to do, tally them up, and you will see what award you are working towards!
In the first few weeks of the Autumn Term, we will also ask each year group & class to complete our annual one-journey ‘hands up’ survey asking children how they are currently travelling to school. This must be carried out on the same day by all classes.
Bronze award: 12 points over the year (4 points per term)
Silver award: 18 points over the year (6 points per term)
Gold Award: 24 points over the year (8 points per term)
Resources for schools
Below you will find the resources to help complete the Active Travel Award. Click to download the files you need:
Be Bright Be Seen
- Animation - Be bright, be seen - available via Dropbox, no sign-up required
- KS1 - Be bright, be seen design activity (PDF, 993 KB)
- KS2 - Be bright, be seen activity (PDF, 81 KB)
Daily Mile
Junior Road Safety Officer
Mini Champions
- Mini Champions Certificates (PDF, 595 KB)
- Mini Champions letter to parents carers (PDF, 595 KB)
- Mini Champions passport (PDF, 258 KB)
- Mini Champions teacher guidance (PDF, 102 KB)
- Mini Champions teacher journey tracker (XLS 26 KB)
Newsletter
Park and Stride
Railway Safety Lesson
Social Media Campaign
- Video: Be bright, be seen - available via Dropbox, no sign-up required
- Video: Clean air animation - available via Dropbox, no sign-up required
- Video: Leave the car at home animation - available via Dropbox, no sign-up required
- Social media one week campaign (PDF, 350 KB)
Walking Bus
Website Guidance