School Travel Awards

Twenty Buckinghamshire schools were recently honoured for their work in travel planning, training in road safety, safe cycling and walking to school. 

At a special County Hall reception on Wednesday 13 November, Janet Blake, County Council Cabinet Member for Planning and Transport, presented STARS (Sustainable Travel Accreditation and Recognition for School) Awards to school representatives. The STARS initiative encourages schools to get their pupils walking, cycling or catching the bus or train to school, instead of travelling by car, and organising training to support this.

We are very pleased to announce that Pipers Corner School was awarded a Bronze Award and is the first Independent School to achieve this recognition in travel planning and road safety.

To achieve the Bronze Award, Pipers Corner had to provide evidence of a range of sustainable travel initiatives and road safety training activities. Our girls have many assemblies about travel and road safety throughout their time at school.  They have opportunities to take part in role playing exercises, enjoy demonstrations from companies such as GIST and attend events for learners and drivers on driving safely. The many school bus routes are also an indication of how the school creates a “green” way of travelling. We believe this is a fantastic way of equipping our pupils with the skills they need to be safe pedestrians and road users now and in the future.

School Bursar, Mr Forester, said “We are delighted to have achieved the Bronze Award for all our hard work in creating sustainable travel and educating our girls on road safety. As Pipers Corner is in a rural setting our girls are unfortunately not able to walk or cycle to school, and this makes it even more important to equip them with road safety awareness as they progress through the school.”

Photos include:

Janet Blake with representatives from Great Kingshill CE Combined School, and Pipers Corner School, the first independent school in the county to achieve recognition

Year 5 and 6 taking park in the National Child Road Safety Programme with GIST in September. 

For more information contact:

Rebecca Conroy, Senior Marketing Executive, Pipers Corner School. Telephone 01494 719850 or email [email protected]

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