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School travel plans (stp).

School travel plans help to improve the health and well-being of pupils and staff, and reduce pollution and congestion around schools, as well as saving money for parents and the school community.

STARS accreditation

STARS (sustainable travel, active, responsible, safe) is Transport for London’s (TfL) school travel plan accreditation scheme for London schools and nurseries. STARS inspires young londoners to travel to school sustainably, actively, responsibly and safely by championing walking, scooting and cycling.

  • Unlock additional funding grants and school activities from TfL and Ealing Council
  • Provide evidence for Ofsted of promoting and achieving active travel
  • Count towards healthy schools silver and gold awards
  • Allow Ealing Council to work strategically to address traffic issues around your school
  • Comply with planning conditions for schools (where applicable)
  • Provide networking opportunities with other schools and invitations to award events.

The STARS accreditation comes as bronze, silver and gold awards and provides an on-line travel plan. The travel plan will also help towards keeping pupils safe, improving punctuality and attendance, reducing child obesity and improving health and well-being. Schools can include sustainability within the curriculum, providing a supportive and caring school environment.

All Ealing schools have been set up on the STARS website . The STARS champion can register to access their school’s profile.

You can see your school's level on 2020-21 STARS accreditation list (pdf)

Want to boost your accreditation level?

TfL have put together some guides to help you do this. Each one lists a range of different activities that can be done as part of each event and how you go about them. Doing extra activities during events all count as additional stories and will boost you towards your school’s next accreditation.

  • STARS and active travel booklist
  • STARS and Big Walk and Wheel
  • STARS and bike week
  • STARs and clean air day
  • STARS and cycle to work day
  • STARS and eco schools
  • STARS and healthy schools London
  • STARS and London climate action week
  • STARS and national walking month
  • STARS and road safety
  • STARS and school streets
  • STARS and walk to school week
  • STARS and walk to work day
  • STARS and world environment day

Already have Healthy Schools accreditation? Find out where Healthy Schools crosses over with STARS (pdf)

STARS 1:1 Sessions

We advise school travel champions to book a 1:1 STARS surgery every half term. These sessions are for champions to get help and advice from the school travel team on anything STARS related or your work on school travel planning. If you are new to STARS or just want to find out more about it and how to become accredited, you can also book a 1:1 surgery with the team.

Book an appointment

To book an appointment please email us ( [email protected] ) 3 dates and times which are convenient for you, for example, before or after school, lunch time or during your PPA time. We will do our very best to make sure we can book one of these in.

All we ask is that the sessions do not begin before 8.30am or finish later than 5pm. Each session will usually run for up to 30 minutes. If you need more than one session, we are happy to accommodate this too. So, why not book your STARS 1-1 Surgery today.

Home learning resources for teachers and parents

STARS at home activities primary schools (pdf)

STARS at home activities high schools (pdf)

STARS at home activities special schools (pdf)

Planning applications

Planning applications for school expansions or rebuilding usually require an up to date travel plan which clearly sets out how the school will promote safe and sustainable travel to the school site and what measures will be taken to mitigate against the possible increased levels of car trips/congestion that the expansion might cause.

Developers and schools must review the STP and the planning process guidance and use the interim STP template to produce the travel plan for their planning application available on the Ealing Council website . For more information contact us at the school travel team.

School travel calendar

School travel calendar events related to sustainable travel (pdf) View calendar of school events related to sustainable travel for 2023/24

School Travel for Life activity planner (pdf) We encourage schools to plan ahead to ensure a smooth accreditation process. Please use this planner or one of your own. Word copies can be sent to you by emailing us at [email protected] . Alternatively, you can save this pdf onto your device, open Word, then open the pdf document in Word to make it editable.

Active Travel booklist (pdf) Encouraging active travel can happen as easily as sharing books with children with exciting travel tales and active travel adventures. We would love you to share the Active Travel book list with your school community, during the school year, but particularly around World Book Day each year. Perhaps you could even have a selection of these books in your class libraries/school library for children to enjoy.

Why not showcase the books in assembly, ask your Travel Ambassadors to peer read with the younger children and discuss the stories and lessons in the books. These are ways of not only engaging the children but working towards your Travel for Life accreditation.

If you know of some books that are not included, please get in touch on [email protected] so that we can add them for future updates.

Big Walk and Wheel toolkit (pdf) The Big Walk and Wheel is the UK’s biggest inter-school cycling, walking, wheeling and scooting competition and is celebrating its 15th year.

Register to be in with a chance of not only winning some great prizes but also joining hundreds of other schools including those in Ealing in promoting active travel on the school journey.

From 11 - 22 March 2024 join in the fun to see the longer term impact on your active travel numbers.

Children will be able to participate as long as they use active travel for the school journey – this includes walking, wheeling (wheelchair users, cycling, scooting) and those who use Park and Stride areas. There is an Ealing league table and the school travel team will be giving daily updates on X @EalingSTARS during the competition to spur you along.

Check out the Big Walk and Wheel toolkit above for some great ideas on how to promote it and make it the best year ever. We look forward to seeing how well each Ealing school does.

Road safety week 19 - 25 November 2023 Road Safety Week is the UK’s biggest road safety event every November, organised by ‘Brake’, a national road safety charity. The theme of Road Safety Week 2022 is ’Safe roads for all', which brings together communities and professionals to promote everyone’s right to make safe and healthy journeys on safe roads.

Here is our downloadable Road Safety Week guide 2023 (pdf) with supporting information, resources and ideas to help schools raise awareness for road safety.

This year we have an assembly schools can use to encourage children to Be Bright, Be Seen. It will help schools to raise awareness of the importance of being visible as the days and evenings get darker.

Email [email protected] if you would like the assembly powerpoint with the teachers notes.

Workshop play script A new workshop-play script, linked to active travel, road safety and air quality. A series of 6 drama improvisation workshops that fit together to form a play, performed by pupils to parents and the rest of the school. This raises awareness of environmental and congestion issues associated with car use, in particular parent parking and supports promotion of walking and cycling. It’s perfect for schools who want to target a specific class or year group. We have both PDF and hard copies that schools can borrow. Please contact us for more information.

Health Fair game (pdf) We have produced this downloadable game for schools to give to Junior Travel Ambassadors (JTAs) to use during their health fairs. It’s a great way to engage families with the idea of active travel!

Terri the Tiger (pdf) Sadly, schools cannot hire Terri the Tiger, our sustainable travel mascot, at the moment! We will let you know when it is safe for him to return to schools. Contact us for more information and to book.

Ealing's junior travel ambassador (JTA) annual programme Programme for 2022/23

Walking and cycling initiatives Walk and cycle to school initiatives and resources.

Active travel maps Maps to promote walking to school

Tackling parent parking issues Organising a perfect parking campaign.

Useful links Websites and resources to help with your STP.

School travel plan support can be provided by: Nicky Batkin Senior school travel adviser Tel: 020 8825 9648 Email: [email protected]

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London parents encouraged to champion active school travel as TfL launches makeover of its education programme

  • Active Travel , Air Quality & Emissions , Environment , Local Government , Public transport , Transport
  • 15 . 09 . 2023

Most London schools have signed up to TfL’s successful education programme with almost a quarter seeing exceptionally high levels of or increases in pupils walking and cycling

Using active travel for the school run instead of the car can help improve young Londoners’ health and wellbeing

Almost a quarter of London schools are making significant progress in shifting pupils’ travel habits to walking and cycling, as part of Transport for London’s (TfL) education programmes, which are celebrating 16 years with the launch of a new brand, TfL Travel for Life.

Since 2007, TfL, in partnership with all London boroughs and the London Transport Museum, has run a variety of school programmes for pupils aged 3-17. These are designed to help young Londoners travel better and choose active travel options – walking, cycling and scooting. The majority of London’s 3,313 schools are participating in one or more of the TfL education programmes formerly known as Road Safety Club, STARS, Safety and Citizenship and TravelSmart.

The programmes – now consolidated under a single banner – TfL Travel for Life, have accredited nearly half of the 3,313 schools[1] in London with Bronze, Silver or Gold STARS awards. Almost a quarter of these schools have received Gold accreditation, which means they have either reduced their car use by six per cent or they have more than 90 per cent of their students walking and cycling to school. Since the start of the programmes in 2007, schools have so far replaced 22 million kilometres of car journeys with active travel.

TfL Travel for Life brings all of TfL’s different programmes together to create one cohesive programme through a child’s school life, that will help them travel with confidence and independence, with a new website and more support for teachers and parents.

Choosing active travel for the school run has numerous benefits. Rates of childhood obesity are higher in London than in the rest of the UK,[2] and opting to walk, cycle or scoot to school is a great way for children in the capital to improve their wellbeing and get more regular exercise.

A University of Cambridge study shows that children who regularly walk, cycle or scoot to school are less likely to be overweight or obese, a result consistent across neighbourhoods, ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds.[3] A University College London (UCL) study also found that active travel improves mental health,[4] further highlighting its benefits.

Fewer parents driving children to school also improves road safety, as TfL works to eliminate all deaths and serious injuries from London’s transport network as part of its Vision Zero programme. Following several measures taken by TfL, there has been a sustained improvement in safety for under-16s on London’s roads. In 2022, the number of children killed or seriously injured on London’s roads reduced by 63 per cent against TfL’s 2005-09 baseline.[5]

Fewer cars also helps tackle the air pollution that leads to poor health outcomes and exacerbates conditions such as asthma, which affects nearly a quarter of a million London children.[6]

Adopting a more active approach to travel and taking part in TfL’s education programmes can help foster a sense of independence and improved understanding of London’s roads and transport network. This in turn can help prepare children and young people for travelling on public transport on their own and even learning to drive later down the line.

London’s Walking and Cycling Commissioner Will Norman met with staff and pupils at Gold-accredited Hillyfield Primary Academy in Walthamstow to see first-hand the difference TfL’s educational programmes have made to the school. The academy is part of the School Streets Initiative, imposing a temporary restriction on motorised traffic at school drop-off and pick-up times on six surrounding streets, to help tackle road danger and congestion. The school’s façade also features a green wall constructed from vertical ropes and planters, helping promote wellbeing.

With hundreds of London schools such as Hillyfield already taking part in TfL’s education programmes and succeeding in increasing active travel, TfL is encouraging parents using the car for the school run to consider walking and cycling instead as a first step towards a healthier, happier future.

Will Norman, London’s Walking and Cycling Commissioner, said: “For 16 years, TfL’s education programmes have worked in London schools to help children travel safely, healthily and sustainably using public transport, walking and cycling. I’m delighted that, through TfL Travel for Life these vital programmes are being refreshed to ensure that next generation are set up to travel sustainably.”

TfL Travel for Life brings together the different educational programmes (Road Safety Club, STARS, Safety and Citizenship and TravelSmart.) Keeping the same engaging content and adding cohesive branding, an easier online process and a dedicated support team, it will help TfL reach its target of 1,000 Gold-accredited schools by 2025, and replace another 22 million km of car journeys with active travel.

Lilli Matson, TfL’s Chief Safety, Health & Environment Officer, said: “There is nothing more important than children’s health, and prioritising active travel to school is the key to unlocking so many improvements in their wellbeing. We’re delighted to see so many of the schools already involved with our education programmes take such positive steps towards increasing active travel, working towards the common goal of parents and teachers across the city for children to grow up healthy and happy. TfL Travel for Life keeps all the successful elements of our education programmes while introducing new features that make it even easier and quicker to manage, and we urge all parents to consider walking and cycling for the school run if they’re not already.”

Elizabeth McKay, London Transport Museum’s Director and CEO, said: “We’re incredibly proud to partner with Transport for London and the London boroughs to deliver TfL Travel for Life. Each year, our team is out and about across the capital working with 1,800 schools and around 100,000 primary school students to deliver the ‘Citizen’ programme, and supporting all London school’s with their ‘Travel for Life Accreditation’. TfL Travel for Life is a fantastic example of city-wide collaboration to inspire young Londoners to not only make greener, safer, healthier choices when they travel, but also a great way to get them thinking about their role in the future of our city.”

Lucy Straker, Campaigns Manager at Brake, the road safety charity, said: “When we surveyed parents and carers across the UK this year, more than a third (36 per cent) said their children couldn’t walk, cycle or scoot to school because roads are too busy, with a further quarter (25 per cent) saying it was because traffic was too fast.[7]

“It’s every child’s right to be able to walk, cycle or scoot to and from school safely – and the way to enable this is with safe footpaths, segregated cycle paths, safe crossing places and slow traffic.

“So it is really encouraging to see initiatives like Travel for Life helping children and their families understand and reap the benefits of making safer and healthier journeys – because ultimately that’s how we can make journeys safer and healthier for everyone.”

Stephen Edwards, Chief Executive of Living Streets, the charity behind the national Walk to School campaign, said: “Walking to school has so many benefits for children and their families. From improved physical health to better mental health, independence, and walking is both free and the greenest form of transport. Teachers who take part in our WOW, walk to school challenge say children arrive at school ready to learn and concentrate better in class too.

“It’s fantastic that TfL are putting the safety of London’s children front and centre by investing in active travel to school. This really helps build healthy habits for life.”

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Transport for London

Thursday 14 Sep 2023

London parents encouraged to champion active school travel as TfL launches makeover of its education programme

  • Most London schools have signed up to TfL’s successful education programme with almost a quarter seeing exceptionally high levels of or increases in pupils walking and cycling
  • Using active travel for the school run instead of the car can help improve young Londoners’ health and wellbeing

Almost a quarter of London schools are making significant progress in shifting pupils’ travel habits to walking and cycling, as part of Transport for London’s (TfL) education programmes, which are celebrating 16 years with the launch of a new brand, TfL Travel for Life .

Since 2007, TfL, in partnership with all London boroughs and the London Transport Museum, has run a variety of school programmes for pupils aged 3-17. These are designed to help young Londoners travel better and choose active travel options – walking, cycling and scooting. The majority of London’s 3,313 schools are participating in one or more of the TfL education programmes formerly known as Road Safety Club, STARS, Safety and Citizenship and TravelSmart.

The programmes - now consolidated under a single banner - TfL Travel for Life, have accredited nearly half of the 3,313 schools [1] in London with Bronze, Silver or Gold STARS awards. Almost a quarter of these schools have received Gold accreditation, which means they have either reduced their car use by six per cent or they have more than 90 per cent of their students walking and cycling to school. Since the start of the programmes in 2007, schools have so far replaced 22 million kilometres of car journeys with active travel.

TfL Travel for Life brings all of TfL’s different programmes together to create one cohesive programme through a child’s school life, that will help them travel with confidence and independence, with a new website and more support for teachers and parents.

Choosing active travel for the school run has numerous benefits. Rates of childhood obesity are higher in London than in the rest of the UK, [2]  and opting to walk, cycle or scoot to school is a great way for children in the capital to improve their wellbeing and get more regular exercise.

A University of Cambridge study shows that children who regularly walk, cycle or scoot to school are less likely to be overweight or obese, a result consistent across neighbourhoods, ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds. [3] A University College London (UCL) study also found that active travel improves mental health, [4] further highlighting its benefits.

Fewer parents driving children to school also improves road safety, as TfL works to eliminate all deaths and serious injuries from London's transport network as part of its Vision Zero programme. Following several measures taken by TfL, there has been a sustained improvement in safety for under-16s on London’s roads. In 2022, the number of children killed or seriously injured on London’s roads reduced by 63 per cent against TfL’s 2005-09 baseline. [5]

Fewer cars also helps tackle the air pollution that leads to poor health outcomes and exacerbates conditions such as asthma, which affects nearly a quarter of a million London children. [6]

Adopting a more active approach to travel and taking part in TfL’s education programmes can help foster a sense of independence and improved understanding of London’s roads and transport network. This in turn can help prepare children and young people for travelling on public transport on their own and even learning to drive later down the line.

London’s Walking and Cycling Commissioner Will Norman met with staff and pupils at Gold-accredited Hillyfield Primary Academy in Walthamstow to see first-hand the difference TfL’s educational programmes have made to the school. The academy is part of the School Streets Initiative, imposing a temporary restriction on motorised traffic at school drop-off and pick-up times on six surrounding streets, to help tackle road danger and congestion. The school’s façade also features a green wall constructed from vertical ropes and planters, helping promote wellbeing.

With hundreds of London schools such as Hillyfield already taking part in TfL’s education programmes and succeeding in increasing active travel, TfL is encouraging parents using the car for the school run to consider walking and cycling instead as a first step towards a healthier, happier future.

Will Norman, London's Walking and Cycling Commissioner, said: “For 16 years, TfL’s education programmes have worked in London schools to help children travel safely, healthily and sustainably using public transport, walking and cycling. I’m delighted that, through TfL Travel for Life these vital programmes are being refreshed to ensure that next generation are set up to travel sustainably.”

TfL Travel for Life brings together the different educational programmes (Road Safety Club, STARS, Safety and Citizenship and TravelSmart.) Keeping the same engaging content and adding cohesive branding, an easier online process and a dedicated support team, it will help TfL reach its target of 1,000 Gold-accredited schools by 2025, and replace another 22 million km of car journeys with active travel.

Lilli Matson, TfL’s Chief Safety, Health & Environment Officer, said : “There is nothing more important than children’s health, and prioritising active travel to school is the key to unlocking so many improvements in their wellbeing. We’re delighted to see so many of the schools already involved with our education programmes take such positive steps towards increasing active travel , working towards the common goal of parents and teachers across the city for children to grow up healthy and happy.  TfL Travel for Life keeps all the successful elements of our education programmes while introducing new features that make it even easier and quicker to manage, and we urge all parents to consider walking and cycling for the school run if they’re not already.”

Elizabeth McKay, London Transport Museum’s Director and CEO, said: “We’re incredibly proud to partner with Transport for London and the London boroughs to deliver TfL Travel for Life. Each year, our team is out and about across the capital working with 1,800 schools and around 100,000 primary school students to deliver the ‘Citizen’ programme, and supporting all London school’s with their ‘Travel for Life Accreditation’. TfL Travel for Life is a fantastic example of city-wide collaboration to inspire young Londoners to not only make greener, safer, healthier choices when they travel, but also a great way to get them thinking about their role in the future of our city.”

Lucy Straker, Campaigns Manager at Brake, the road safety charity, said: "When we surveyed parents and carers across the UK this year, more than a third (36 per cent) said their children couldn’t walk, cycle or scoot to school because roads are too busy, with a further quarter (25 per cent) saying it was because traffic was too fast. [7]

"It’s every child’s right to be able to walk, cycle or scoot to and from school safely - and the way to enable this is with safe footpaths, segregated cycle paths, safe crossing places and slow traffic.

"So it is really encouraging to see initiatives like Travel for Life helping children and their families understand and reap the benefits of making safer and healthier journeys – because ultimately that's how we can make journeys safer and healthier for everyone." 

Stephen Edwards, Chief Executive of Living Streets, the charity behind the national Walk to School campaign, said: “Walking to school has so many benefits for children and their families. From improved physical health to better mental health, independence, and walking is both free and the greenest form of transport. Teachers who take part in our WOW, walk to school challenge say children arrive at school ready to learn and concentrate better in class too.  

“It’s fantastic that TfL are putting the safety of London’s children front and centre by investing in active travel to school. This really helps build healthy habits for life.”

Contact Information

TfL Press Office Transport for London 0343 222 4141 [email protected]

Notes to editors

[1] 737 schools out of 3,313

[2] https://trustforlondon.org.uk/data/child-obesity/#:~:text=Childhood%20obesity%20is%20more%20prevalent,4.2%20percentage%20points%20in%20England.

[3] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190521101344.htm

[4] https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/research-projects/2023/jul/journeys-walking-and-cycling-improve-physical-and-mental-health-across-life-course

[5] https://content.tfl.gov.uk/casualties-in-greater-london-2022.pdf

[6] https://imperialcollegehealthpartners.com/new-innovative-data-tool-is-a-breath-of-fresh-air-for-londoners/

[7] https://www.brake.org.uk/how-we-help/raising-awareness/our-current-projects/news-and-blogs/brake-calls-for-20mph-speed-limits-around-schools

[8] https://content.tfl.gov.uk/getting-to-know-school-streets-case-studies-2022.pdf

[9] https://content.tfl.gov.uk/school-streets-qualitative-research-2022.pdf

  • TfL is taking several measures to make it easier and safer for children to walk, cycle and scoot to school. Working with London boroughs, it has helped ensure there are currently more than 500 School Streets in London, at almost a quarter of primary schools. School streets research commissioned by TfL found that parents of children at School Streets schools drove 18 percent less - with those streets also showing an increase in the number of people cycling per hour. [8] One school recorded a 20 per cent increase in walking to school after the scheme was implemented [9]
  • Following the Government funding agreement in August 2022, £80m per year was allocated to TfL for the walking and cycling schemes that are part of its Healthy Streets Programme, the scheme that has seen pedestrian wait times at crossings near schools reduced. A 20mph speed limit on a further 28km of roads in the boroughs of Camden, Islington, Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Haringey was successfully completed earlier this year
  • Junior Roadwatch, part of Vision Zero, is a road danger reduction education scheme run as a joint initiative between TfL, the Metropolitan Police Service and London Boroughs, in which school children talk to drivers about the dangers of speeding near their school, as an alternative to the driver receiving a fine
  • Working with London boroughs, TfL has more than tripled the size of the London-wide strategic cycle network to more than 340km, meaning that more than one in five Londoners now live near the Cycleway network. In June, TfL launched a major new plan to further boost cycling numbers across the capital, including funding cycle training for more than 40,000 children, and there will also be new guidance setting out principles of inclusivity in design to ensure shared paths in parks and by waterways are properly accessible to everyone, including children. The following month, TfL launched 10 new low traffic cycleways across the capital, the most it has ever opened at one time, making it safer and easier for people to travel around London by bike
  • TfL has also continued to work on its Safer Junctions programme to make life-saving changes at some of the capital’s most dangerous and intimidating junctions. With the completion of work at York Road roundabout in Wandsworth earlier this year, TfL has so far completed work at 44 junctions across London as part of the programme
  • TfL continues to work with young people with its Youth Panel, a group of volunteers aged 16-25 that help to shape transport policy and create a transport network that works for young people. Established in 2009, the panel’s members have helped inform notable policies and plans such as the Mayor’s Transport Strategy, road safety campaigns, and Year of Engineering, among many other initiatives. They also formally submit consultation responses, representing young Londoners, and take part in some TfL campaigns
  • TfL Travel for Life is delivered in partnership with the London Transport Museum and all London boroughs, and designed in line with the OFSTED enrichment programme, the Curriculum and the new Climate Action Planning expectations
  • Under the new TfL Travel for Life branding, STARS for primary schools will be renamed TfL Explorers, and STARS for secondary schools renamed TfL Pioneers. Road Safety Club, the programme to help little Londoners be safe around roads, will be renamed TfL Discoverers. Safety and Citizenship, the flagship programme to prepare year 6 children for independent travel, will be renamed TfL Citizens, while TravelSmart, the digital tool to guide young people to be more risk-aware, will be renamed TfL Navigators

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