Staff, pupils, teachers and parents all contribute to increasing active travel at schools, whether that's walking, cycling or scooting. We know it isn’t always easy, so as part of our Active Journeys Programme, we provide accreditation so you can celebrate your hard work.
Active Travel School Award
The Active Travel School Award guides schools through the key steps for increasing and sustaining the number of pupils travelling to school actively. Register and log into the Active Travel School Award here.
It enables schools to track progress through three levels – bronze, silver and gold – in becoming beacons of best practice.
The award supports schools with collecting evidence towards transport, health and wellbeing sections of Eco-Schools and Healthy Schools Awards.
What is an active travel school?
Active Travel Schools have the ambition and vision to see more active travel to and from their school.
They recognise the benefits that increased levels of active travel bring to the pupils, their families and the wider school community:
- reduced congestion
- improved air quality
- more independent and resilient children
- safer streets
- increased levels of physical activity
- more alert children ready to learn and attain.
Active Travel Schools are a beacon in the community, demonstrating how everyday neighbourhood journeys can be active and healthy.
These schools are taking positive action to encourage and support pupils and their families to travel actively.
The Active Travel School Award guides schools through the key steps for increasing the number of pupils travelling to school actively.
Online platform
The Active Travel School Award platform will support you as you work through our key steps to boost the number of pupils travelling actively to and from school.
Schools can track progress and access a wealth of supporting resources in order to achieve bronze, silver and gold awards.
The awards explained
Bronze
Awarded to schools that are working to help the school community choose to travel in more active and sustainable ways.
Schools awarded bronze will have put into place some organisational, cultural and behavioural changes that are contributing to more pupils travelling actively.
Silver
For schools that continue to demonstrate their commitment to promoting active and sustainable travel.
For this award, much of the energy and resources will come from within the school and its community.
Gold
Awarded to a school that has demonstrated an ongoing commitment to promoting active and sustainable travel over several years.
And where this commitment has led to significant and lasting organisational, cultural and behavioural changes.
Replacing School Mark
The Active Travel School Award is replacing the School Mark.
All progress will be migrated over to the Active Travel School Award platform.
You can log in to the brand new Active Travel School Award platform here.
Register to take part
Email us on schoolswales@sustrans.org.uk to register your school for the Active Travel School Award.
We’ll need to know:
- your name
- job title
- school
- contact email address
- and local authority.
