1. SchoolTravel
Map
Resource

3. AIM
• Encourage more children to walk/cycle/scoot to school
• Reduce the congestion outside the school gates
THE SOLUTION
Production of targeted ‘Travel to School Maps’:
• To promote safe routes to walk and cycle
• To identify 5 minute Walking Zone
• To highlight car free / no dropping off areas
• To promote Park & Stride locations
• A simple and cost effective solution
• Transition Tool – for new families
School Travel Map Resource

4. Map Resource
SOLUTION
•Base Map of the
Southampton City
•Pocket Size
Leaflet Templates
for Primary and
Secondary Schools
•Wallcharts
•Interactive
Leaflets

5. Base Mapping

6. Printed Leaflets
• Detailed map centred on your School Location
• Summary of your STARS Travel Plan aims
• Drawings and Quotes from Pupils
• Information supporting reasons to:
 Walk to School
 Park & Stride
 Scoot or Cycle to School

7. Map Extract

8. Pocket Sized Leaflet – Map Side

9. Pocket Sized Leaflet – Text Side

10. Secondary School Template

11. Wallcharts

12. Checklists

13. Interactive Solution

14. Let’s Get Started
• SCC to Liaise with School to identify issues, challenges and
solutions
• Identify items to be highlighted on the map
 Park and Stride Location
 No Parking/Drop Offs
 Safe walk routes & crossing points
• Photo and text to be compiled for the reverse side of the
leaflet
• School to organise drawings and quotes from pupils

15. How to Launch
• STARS officer can work with a group of
pupils to organise a launch event:
 hand out leaflets at the school gate
 organise a walkers breakfast
 whole school assembly
 promote on school website / newsletters

16. Benefits
• Easy and quick to produce Leaflets
• Simple, positive message
• Owned by the School
• Pupils can be involved
• Online and printed solutions
• Sustainable
• Curriculum resource

17. And to think I saw It on…
I swung round the corner
And dashed through the gate,
I ran up the steps
And I felt simply GREAT!
When I leave home to walk to school,
Dad always says to me,
“Marco, keep your eyelids up
And see with you can see.”