A*STARS: Active Sustainable Travel And Road Safety

The list of initiatives below are offered to A*STARS school at Bronze Level.

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Core Elements
Whole School Active Travel Survey

Whole School Active Travel Survey

What is it?

The annual travel survey takes place during October each year. Every child in each year group is asked how they travel to school and how they would prefer to travel to school. This is administered via a hands up survey in class and results are recorded directly onto the A*STARS website.
Reception Parent/ Carer Walk

Reception Parent/ Carer Walk

What is it?

Road safety education walk in the vicinity of the school. Each child must be accompanied by a parent or carer.

A member of the Road Safety Team will meet with the adults initially to discuss what will happen on the walk and deliver some key road safety messages to the parents/ carers. The Road Safety Team will then talk to the children and adults as a whole, before going out and walking a short risk assessed route close to the school.
KS1 School Level Quiz
Yr 2 Scooterbility

Yr 2 Scooterbility

What is it?

The aim of the Scooterbility programme is to use the scooters as a fun and active way to learn and reinforce basic pedestrian safety messages.

The programme is broken down into activities which encourage active travel and help develop skills such as steering, stopping and balancing.
KS2 School Level Quiz

KS2 School Level Quiz

What is it?

This is a Year 4/5 mixed year group road safety and sustainable travel quiz. The quiz is based on the DfT’s Tales of the Road, Togo Nogo and materials provided by the A*STARS Team. There are 2 parts to the quiz – an Inter-Class Quiz delivered in school which enables schools to select a team of 4. This is followed by an Inter-School Quiz.

Schools are invited to send a Year 4/5 mixed team of 4 pupils comprising 2 Y4 children and 2 Y5 children to represent their school at the annual Inter-school Quiz.

Should anticipated numbers of schools be too great, a selection event/activity will be arranged by A*STARS Team
Yr 3 Pedestrian Training
Yr 3 Pedestrian Training
What is it?

Our pedestrian education included a practical training session covering key topics to help develop valuable road safety skills.

These topics include:
- Things to think about before you go out
- Traffic and Roads
- The Green Cross Code and safer places to cross
- Risk Awareness
Yr 5/6 Bikeability Cycle Training (Funded by the DfT)

Yr 5/6 Bikeability Cycle Training (Funded by the DfT)

What is it?

National standard cycle training for children aged 10 and over. The Bikeability level 2 course is delivered over 2 full days. The first morning session takes place on the school playground and seeks to achieve the level 1 outcomes. The remainder of the course is undertaken on-road along risk assessed routes in the local vicinity of the school. The course lasts 2 full days to achieve level 2 aims.

To find out more information, Learn About Bikeability
Yr 6 Transition to Secondary School- On The Move

Yr 6 Transition to Secondary School- On The Move

‘On the Move’ is a free transition resource developed by the West Midlands Road Safety Partnership for delivery within schools. The package includes a lesson plan booklet, complete with curriculum links, a student booklet and a leaflet to go home to parents.
Promotion and Publicity
Engagement & Publicity
Engagement & Publicity
What is it?

Engaging with parents/carers to help launch, promote and encourage participation with the overall programme. Some methods of engagement could include:
- Leaflets
- Newsletters
- Website (A*STARS and School)
- Letters
- Events
- Parents evenings
- New parent induction meetings
- Notice boards
- PTA meetings
National & Regional Campaign(s)

Healthy Lifestyles - Walking Elements
5min Walk Zone

5min Walk Zone

A 5 minute Walk Zone aims to encourage children and their families to walk for at least part of the journey to and from school. A zone around school is marked out by easily identifiable signs on lighting column. Families who live in or near the zone are encouraged to walk, cycle or scoot to and from school each day, while those who chose to drive are asked to park safely outside the zone and walk the last five minutes of their journey.
Let's Walk Together Event

Let's Walk Together Event

What is it?

A Let’s walk Together Event (LWTE) is a one off event which allows parents and children to walk together along a predetermined route to school with other parents and staff members.

It can be used to raise awareness of Park and Stride or to give them an opportunity to experience how a walking bus might operate. On arrival at school, parents are encouraged to attend a coffee morning where Walking Bus / Park and Stride initiatives can be promoted and discussed.
Park and Stride

Park and Stride

What is it?

A Park & Stride scheme is designed to encourage parents who to drive their children to school to park away from the school gates and walk the remainder of the journey.

Schools identify a car park, such as a supermarket, church or pub, within a 5-15 minute walk of the school. After obtaining permission from the land owner for parents to use the car park, it is promoted and launched as an official Park & Stride site.

Schools ask parents to register for the scheme and give them a car sticker to display on their windscreen to advise the land owner that they are an authorised user. This also enables schools to identify which children Park and Stride.
Walking Bus

Walking Bus

What is it?

A walking bus is an organised group of children walking a pre-determined route to school supported by adult volunteers / school staff. This activity takes place on a regular basis (unlike a Let’s Walk Together Event) and can operate one morning a week, every morning or twice daily on the journey to and from school. The walking bus is a formal activity which requires: a co-ordinator, supported by volunteers to operate it on a rota basis, parents to register their children to travel on it and a timetable showing when and where it will be stopping.
Walking Mile Challenge
Walking Or Wheeling (WOW)

Walking Or Wheeling (WOW)

What is it?

Walking Or Wheeling (WOW) is an incentive scheme that rewards children for active* travel on the journey to school (*Walking, Scooting, Cycling, Park and Stride and Public Transport). Pupils record their mode of travel each day and are rewarded with badges when they achieve a set amount of active travel journeys during in a half term period.

This initiative enables schools to try out WOW for one term (or more if successful). It can also be used to raise awareness of Park and Stride schemes or to promote a walking bus.

Healthy Lifestyles - Wheeling & Cycling Elements
Any Other Initiative
KS1 Cycling in the Curriculum

KS1 Cycling in the Curriculum

What is it?

Cycling in the curriculum is simply raising awareness about cycling as part of other national curriculum subjects. Cycling covers a wide range of subjects such as physical education, science, maths and PSHE to name but a few. Ready made lessons plans for various key stages and topics are available to download. These can be adapted to suit or alternatively, teachers can plan their own cycling based lessons. Evidence of the lesson will need to be provided, such as pupils work or lesson plan monitoring.
KS1 Scootathlon

KS1 Scootathlon

What is it?

A Scootathlon is a race that can be targeted at any age group. This fun activity incorporates running and scooting for younger children and can comprise a third discipline (cycling) for older children. It could be carried out at the end of Scooterbility or Bikeability Training as it allows children to practise some of the skills that they have learned.

It can also be included as a sports day activity.
Yr3 Bikeability Learn to Ride

Yr3 Bikeability Learn to Ride

Bikeability Plus Learn to Ride is for anyone aged 4 and above who would like to ride a bike with pedals independently. The course is delivered in an off road traffic free environment. At this level the training does not attempt to simulate on road cycling.
Yr4 Cycle Mtce- Bikeability Fix

Road Safety Elements
Any Other Initiative
Be Bright Be Seen

Be Bright Be Seen

What is it?

A classroom based session demonstrating the need to wear bright and reflective clothing –

Colourful or fluorescent clothing to make you more visible when you go out during the day

Reflective clothing or accessories for increased visibility at night
KS2 Egg Heads

KS2 Egg Heads

This initiative is designed to help teach children of the importance of wearing helmets when cycling and scooting. The activities help children to identify risks involved in cycling and scooting and how helmets can help minimise injury to themselves.
KS2 Speed Awareness

KS2 Speed Awareness

What is it?

Teaching resource where pupils participate in a practical roadside speed monitoring session. Pupils use Speed guns to measure the speeds of passing vehicles and identify the difficultly in judging the speed of approaching/ passing vehicles.
Safety in the Car- Car Seats
Safety in the Car- Seatbelts (The Dims)

Sheriffs Tasks

Additional Initiatives

Bronze Level

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