- Welcome to our Junior Travel Ambassadors 2024-2025 Rory, Julia, Rayyan, Aruran, Ella and Cameron
The children were successfully selected as a result of their applications for the role. These children were clear in the ways that they feel that they can be involved in actively leading change in sustainable travel. They already have a wealth of games, competitions and activities that they have planned to raise the profile of this important topic.
Good luck team!
How does the Gold Accreditation work?
We continue retain the Gold accreditation for our School Travel Plan.
Gold accreditation is awarded, when a school has completed a set number of activities and initiatives over a three-year period, showing a move away from children using the car to travel to school and demonstrating excellence in one or more of the key areas of the travel plan (Road Safety, Walking and Scooting to School, Promoting Safer and Active Travel).
Gold accreditation lasts for three years.
In order to maintain our Gold accreditation, we need to:
- Complete the Hands Up Survey every year
- Continue to collect initiatives and activities each year to meet the threshold for Gold again in three years' time
Evidence gathering:
Children's presentations will be saved and photos included on the BeDifferent Federated wesbite. There will be regular updates by the team to the school and information included in our termly school magazine.
There will be a permanent JTA display board included in school. These include the children's photos and information about the theme, as well as examples of winning competition entries, events and planned activities that have taken place.
Children will have photos/blurb included on the school website talking about their role. Updates on children's activity will be shared accordingly.
Autumn term timetable
| Dates | Activity |
|---|---|
| September | Advertising the role of the JTA and Recruitment. Former JTA's to present the job
description to children from Year Five and explain the purpose of JTA's and their roles
in school, with support from the Head of School (HH). Expectations to be shared with the
children and an opportunity provided for the children to ask questions about what the
role entails. Children to be provided with an application form, which they will complete
with their class teacher as part of a PSCHE/circle time discussion about suitable
attributes. Previous members of the JTA team will liaise with the Head of School to select six suitable candidates for the role, based on their applications. Two applicants will be selected from each Year Five class. The successful candidates will be announced in assembly and included on our BeDifferent website. |
| October | Head of School and STP Champion will hold an initial meeting with the JTA's, possibly with attendance from Patrick Long at Merton, to discuss future events planning. |
| November | Road Safety - Let's talk about Speed Assembly promoting safety when out and about; talk about ways to make a bike safe during the winter months e.g. be safe, be seen Scooter competition - design the school scooter of the future |
| December | Street Smart Safety Socks! Highway Code Promotion competition - all children to be invited to design a poster promoting a child chosen element of the Highway Code e.g. pedestrian safety, cycle safety. Winning entries to be made into posters to display around the school and the winning children to be awarded a prize in assembly. |
A yearly planner will support the themes and information children share across the course of a year:
| September | Green cross code |
| October | Crossing safely |
| November | Be safe, be seen |
| December | Highway Code |
| January | Weather warning |
| February | Helping parents stay street safe |
| March | Being a safe bus passenger |
| April | It's playtime |
| May | Your journey to school |
| June | Cycling safely |
| July | Staying safe during the summer holidays |