THE SCHOOL JOURNEY

We are always looking for ways to promote healthy lifestyles, safer journeys to school and better environmental quality.
Therefore, we ask parents and students to consider the following:
1. Walk to school if you can. Many of our children live within sensible walking distance from the school, yet travel to and are collected from Chauncy by car.
2. For those who have to travel, why not use public transport? Information about Hertfordshire Saver cards can be found here:
https://www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/services/highways-roads-and-pavements/public-transport/savercard/savercard.aspx
3. Why not ‘Park and Stride’ – pick a drop off point such as ASDA carpark and allow the children to walk the rest of the journey to school?
4. Many families could ‘ride-share’ and share the school journey across the week, saving on petrol, reducing traffic in the town and cutting back on fumes.
5. We have always encouraged scooting and cycling to school and we have built a cycle storage unit to accommodate those who wish to bring scooters and cycles to school. All we ask is you MUST wear a helmet, you have working lights and brakes fitted on your cycle and we will let you park your bike at Chauncy.
In addition, we lower the barrier at school gates at the end of the day between 3.30pm and 3.45pm to separate children from vehicles on our site.
We have banned staff and student vehicles from the bottom playground and we politely move cars out of the bus lanes at the end of the school day, to let our buses park up safely.
Can I also request that parents do not come onto the school site to collect their child, unless this has been formally agreed with the school.
We will also politely move poorly parked drivers who block pedestrian access and park on zebra crossings and zig-zags around the entrances to the school.
Please don’t get cross with us if we move you on, we have a happy, safe and successful school and we just want to keep it that way.
Thanks.
Steve Walton (Headteacher)