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Port Elliot Primary School

School Travel Plan (2year)

2011-2013 Term 2

Way2Go School Travel Plan Port Elliot Primary School

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Contents

1. Introduction ........................................................................................................................................3

2. The current situation .........................................................................................................................5

2.1 Survey summary: Younger children ............................................................................................5

2.2 Survey summary: Primary and Middle Years ..............................................................................6

2.3 Survey summary: Parent/Carer .................................................................................................11

2.4 Survey summary: Teachers ......................................................................................................18

2.5 Summary from the Principal………………………………………………………………………...…20

2.6 Other comments about school travel.........................................................................................21

3. Targets..............................................................................................................................................22

4. Education plan .................................................................................................................................23

5. Active travel program ......................................................................................................................25

6. Council works plan ..........................................................................................................................27

7. Monitoring and review ……………………………………………………………………………………..27

8. Endorsement....................................................................................................................................27

9. Results..............................................................................................................................................28

10. Annual update ..................................................................................................................................28


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Introduction Updated: 06/11

School Vision: ‘How high can our fish fly?’ Principal : Mr Chris Tapscott Deputy Principal: Ms Yvette Foster. Location Address : 4 Cameron Street, Port Elliot 5212 Region : Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island Road distance from GPO : 85kms Phone No. : 08 85543399 Fax No .08 85542444 School e-mail address: [email protected] Principal’s email address: [email protected]

CPC attached : No, but the school is co-located with the Port Elliot Kindergarten. R-7 Enrolment inTerm 2 2011: 302 students. Enrolment has increased steadily over recent years, with 25 percent enrolment growth over the past five years. July School Card approximately 90 NESB Total 4 Aboriginal FTE Enrolment 7

The school has 12 classes in 2011, rising to 13 in the second half of the year. The school has a full-time Counsellor. The Primary School Counsellor conducts a range of supportive and pro-active programs across the school. The school has Commonwealth-funded Christian Pastoral Support Workers on three days per week. The school also has an Aboriginal Community Education Officer on a little less than two days per week. There is a strong R-7 SRC with an executive of senior members. There are weekly meetings and activities.

Port Elliot Primary School staff members are a very experienced team. A considerable number of staff members work part time and most staff members live locally in the Southern Fleurieu. The staff members are highly committed, providing a well-balanced and excellent education service

The School has an Improvement Plan for 2011. The priorities are: Student & Community Engagement and well-being; Literacy; with our involvement in the Accelerated Literacy Program a high priority; Mathematics; and the Australian Curriculum.

In 2011 the school appointed a Coordinator, Student and Community Engagement to support the first of the priorities listed above, with the evolution and continuation of a staff peer observation and feedback program, based upon the DECS Teaching for Effective Learning framework.

Port Elliot Primary School is an Index of Disadvantage Category 3 School, and this was fixed for a further five years from 2009. School Card students have historically made up approximately 50% of our student population, but this has gradually declined in recent years. The student body is quite diverse, with a significant transient population. A significant number of students come from complex and diverse family units.

Enrolments have steadily increased from approximately 100 in 1991 to approximately 180 in 1998, and approximately 300 at the end of 2010. It is anticipated that enrolments will continue to increase steadily in the foreseeable future, along with general growth in the district. With the opening of private schools in the area growth in enrolments may fluctuate over the next few years.

The school on its current site is accessible on two street frontages, Cameron and Wright Streets, Port Elliot. There is limited access to Port Elliot and the school by Public Transport.

During 2007 the school (and co-located Kindergarten) relocated into a new school and Kindergarten adjacent to the Port Elliot Showgrounds. There is a joint use agreement between the Minister for Education and Children’s Services and the Southern Agricultural Society for use of the showgrounds oval.

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The school has a new and well-equipped Resource Centre, and attractive grounds. An Investing in Our Schools grant was used in 2007 to install a substantial playground to complement equipment relocated from the old site. The site is flat, with easy access to all areas facilitated for students and adults with mobility difficulties and wheeled mobility. There is a developing Indonesian Garden, a Junior Primary vegetable garden, a garden of Indigenous plants, and 2010 saw the completion of a Peace Garden.

An OSHC service is provided after school hours. Vacation Care is also provided. The OSHC program shares our school withdrawal room space.

Port Elliot Kindergarten shares the site and close cooperative programmes and resource sharing exists. Playgroup, Kindergym and day care are locally available.

The school and its students are active in an expanding range of sporting and physical activities. In 2011 Physical Education is a specialist teaching area. Inter-school surfing is a key activity. We participate in SAPSASA athletics and sports, and selected programmes where applicable for talented students. Student initiated events occur from time to time. Swimming and aquatics are also part of our program. The school has three sports ‘houses’, and there is a very popular annual inter-house sports day. A range of local clubs offers extensive choice in sporting activities.

The school community is Index of Disadvantage Category 3, and services struggle to keep up with growing population and demand. The local population is a diverse one with a range of identifiable common interest groups. Also strongly supported are environmental groups and activities relating to coastal and dune protection. A significant number of parents have chosen a more alternative lifestyle. Sporting clubs are strongly supported, with growth in the number and range of sports supported. Many Port Elliot Primary School students are involved in surfing and/or surf life saving pursuits. The area is well–served by a wide range of sporting, cultural, and service organisations.

Considerable parent/caregiver and community involvement exists through structured programmes like classroom support, and library assistance, and also through sporting and environmental projects and programmes. Parents are very interested in their school and outcomes for their children. Parent Network is a group of dedicated parents who contribute in a wide range of ways to the life of the school and to fundraising.

Newsletters are produced every fortnight. These are available on our web-site, in addition to being distributed to all families. Staff members receive a weekly bulletin of information. Some classes distribute class newsletters to families.

Port Elliot is a very popular South Australian recreation area for urban Adelaide dwellers as well as other country and interstate visitors. Tourism and population has increased markedly over the past decade. There is a broad mixture of self-employed, locally employed and commuting parents. Whale watching has developed quickly and is also popular. Essential services and shopping facilities are available either at Port Elliot to a limited extent, or in nearby Victor Harbor or Goolwa. There has been steady growth in the size and range of shopping facilities available in both of these larger centres.

The public transport access that is available is a local taxi service, bus service between Adelaide and Victor Harbor daily and also Goolwa-Adelaide service. Students living in areas of Middleton are able to access a school bus to attend Port Elliot Primary School. School buses bring students from Middleton. While some students travel from further afield by family choice, there is no public bus service.

‘How high can our fish fly?’ remains the vision and the challenge to all members of the school

community to do our best.


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2. The current situation

2.1 Survey summary: Younger children Are you a boy or a girl?

Total responses; 85 Boys; 39 Girls; 46 How did you get to school today?

Total responses; 85 Walk; 6 Cycle; 5 In a car; 70 Bus; 4 Train; 0 Would you like to ride or walk to school more?

Total responses; 85 Yes; 65 No; 20


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2.2 Survey summary: Primary and Middle Years

date of collation - 2/6/11 total of responses – 82

Which year are you in?

Total responses; 82 Yr3; 20 Yr4; 5 Yr5; 21 Yr6; 19 Yr7; 17

Are you a boy or a girl? Total responses; 82 Boy; 44 Girl; 38 Which suburb or town do you live in?

CURRENCY CREEK 2ENCOUNTER BAY 2GOOLWA 8GOOLWA SOUTH 2HAYBOROUGH 4MIDDLETON 10PORT ELLIOT 32VICTOR HARBOR 18Other Responses 4


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How do you usually travel to school?

Comments 6 (Q5) If you chose "other" in question 5, please explain how you travelled.

longboard scooting sometimes car sometimes walk

How do you usually travel from school?

Comments 6 (Q5) If you chose "other" in question 5, please explain how you travelled.

longboard scooting sometimes car sometimes walk


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How would you like to travel to school?

Walk with a parent/carer

2.40% 2

Walk alone

8.50% 7

Walk with friends

25.60% 21

Cycle with a parent/carer

0.00% 0

Cycle alone

3.70% 3

Cycle with friends

13.40% 11

In a car

23.20% 19

Public transport

1.20% 1

School bus

11.00% 9

Other (please give details)

11.00% 9

7 (Q16SPECIFIED_10) How would you like to travel to school?

longboard scootering on a scooter scooting on parents motorcycle ride my scooter with friends get dropped off at my mates hose and then walk car with friends electric go-cart no other way


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Is this the way you usually travel to school?


Is there a bicycle at home you can use?



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8 (Q17SPECIFIED_2) Is this the way you usually travel to school? No. Why not?

I live too far away to walk home. because my friends get driven to school live to far away don't have time live to far away to busy i live to far away im not allowed to long to ride here it is to long because my mum wont let me because my friends live in middelton because no bus or trains go past the school because my friends live in middelton too far away Because Theres no bus stop in Encounter Bay i live in victor harbour because i live to far too far away because i have a sister it dosnt come to my house we are going to sped heaps friends far away because i don't have one parent thinks unsafe to walk alone HI IM JIM we cant pay for it. because its not safe and its to long grandad has a bad leg mum drops me on the way to work too far from home. no friends live close no other way because i live to far away from school. because my friends live further away Because it's to far and my bike is rusted We live far away. mum wont let me


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2.3 Survey summary: Parent/Carer Your child’s year level date of collation - 2/6/11 total of responses – 24

Reception

16.70% 4

1

29.20% 7

2

16.70% 4

3

12.50% 3

4

20.80% 5

5

20.80% 5

6

29.20% 7

7

16.70% 4

Two or more children in one year level (how many and what year?)

0.00% 0Valid Responses 23


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Which suburb or town does your child/children live in?

HAYBOROUGH

12.50% 3MIDDLETON 12.50% 3PORT ELLIOT 45.80% 11

VICTOR HARBOR 12.50% 3

Other Responses 16.70% 4


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How do your child/children usually travel to and from school? If not listed, choose "other" for each journey. To school

From School


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How far does your child/children live from the school (approximately)?

Less than 0.5 km 5 0.5 - 1 km 4 1 - 2 km 2 2 - 5 km 6 5 - 10 km 5 More than 10km 2 Total Responses 23

If you drive, is the car journey to school usually:

journey specifically to take your child/children to school, or

50.00% 9 A combined journey, e.g. to work, going shopping

50.00% 9 Not Answered


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8: What factors most influence the way your child/children travel to and from school?

Time (explain if necessary)

25.00% 6

Weather

33.30% 8

Child's road safety (explain if necessary)

20.80% 5

Child's personal safety (explain if necessary)

12.50% 3

Other children to walk or cycle with

12.50% 3

Physical constraints (explain if necessary)

0.00% 0

Distance

54.20% 13

Not considered walking and cycling

0.00% 0

Lack of suitable paths or road crossings

20.80% 5

School trip is part of a parent's journey to work or elsewhere

25.00% 6


12.50% 3Total Responses 23


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comments 8 (Q17SPECIFIED_1)

if`have`sport after school can't ride and get to sport within time constaints of school finishing and sport starting

8 (Q17SPECIFIED_3)

difficult to cross North Terrace No footpaths or crossings in our area.

8 (Q17SPECIFIED_4)

bike track can be a little isolated most of the time. They're young children.

8 (Q17SPECIFIED_11)

it's a little too far for the morning, but we have thought about bike/walk after school.

live across the road from the school grounds too far to walk or ride bus does not go as far as our place

9 (Q18) Please suggest any improvements or initiatives that would encourage your child/children to participate in more active travel to and from school?

We are actually very lucky to have a bike track between school and home, however, I have hesitated allowing my eldest to travel home via pushbike as I worry about her crossing the main road (North Terrace)in Port Elliot.

A Pedestrian crossing would be wonderful! but...where to place it? It would suit us near the bakery, but I can see that others might find one more useful near the general store.

Now that she is older, my daughter sometimes runs home after school using the bike track. But I still collect her from school and drop her off at the start of track, as I worry about the main road through port elliot. A crossing would be helpful to her and my younger children in a couple of years to get them safely across main road. Also, I have noticed problems with parents backing cars in school area and having close calls with walking children. Perhaps parking that prevents reversing would be safer. Also a dedicated pick up and drop off area.

A zebra crossing at the main entrance of the school (Cameron St) seems necessary.

Kids love their bikes, and I think we are lucky to have our bike tracks, we are not far off to making it safe really.

A couple of crossing issues and parent car safety issues to be resolved. At times I worry about personal safety along the bike track, but so far have had no bad experiences.

Could drive part of the way and walk the rest. More public transport in the area. Footpaths in the area would be a bonus.


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Better foot path and/or cycle lane along tottenham court rd, pt Elliot I think a lack of a safe crossing across North Terrace in Port Elliot especially in

the after school busy time deters my son from riding more. It is quite busy with school buses. The bike track through "Beyond" is fabulous for him to ride especially the underpass under Port Elliot Straight.

We need a safe place for children to cross on North Tce - since the old school crossing has been remove children can not cross this busy road safely

My children have it both ways they walk to school with dad as he lives very close and drive when with me as I live further away so I guess they have the best of both worlds.

We need safer footpaths, bike lanes and especially children road crossing areas near the school. Cars travel too fast on roads that lead to and from the school

If only we live closer to the school, that it will happen in time I feel that if there was zebra crossings/ flashing lights the community would use

their feet more. safer crossing from bike path that connects middleton to pt elliot to school. A

busy main road - north terrace has to be crossed. Also easier way to get over railway line.

a bike track that can cut of going into the Port Elliot main st area and back out to the school.

if there was a safe bike path along waterport rd we would ride often.


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2.4 Survey summary: Teachers What prevents your students from walking or cycling to and from school? Parental time constraints (explain if necessary)

Response Frequency Count

Better engineering to improve safety and/or access to the school

78.60% 11

More information and education regarding the benefits of walking/cycling

28.60% 4

Involvement of parents 57.10% 8

Enthusiastic teachers

0.00% 0

Involvement of students

7.10% 1

Participation in events e.g. Walk Safely to School Day

7.10% 1

Bicycle storage/security

64.30% 9


21.40% 3

Total Responses


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4: Has your school been involved in any of the following? (Respondents were allowed to choose multiple responses)

Response Frequency Count

Safe Routes to School

7.10% 1

Green Travel Challenge

0.00% 0

Walking School Bus

0.00% 0

Bike Ed

57.10% 8

Waterwatch/AirWatch

50.00% 7

SunSmart

71.40% 10

Premier's be active Challenge

7.10% 1


0.00% 0

Total Responses 11

comments 2 (Q2SPECIFIED_4) What prevents your students from walking or cycling to and from school? Student road safety (explain if necessary)

very busy roads to cross Parents are often over concerned about their child's safety

2 (Q2SPECIFIED_5) What prevents your students from walking or cycling to and from school? Student personal safety (explain if necessary.

Parents are often over concerned about their child's safety 2 (Q2SPECIFIED_12) What prevents your students from walking or cycling to and from school?

no safe places to cross 3 (Q3SPECIFIED_8) What would encourage more children to walk and cycle to and from school?

travel lights/crossing lights at the very busy roads safer options to cross main road & better ooptions to ride from close townships eg through

paddocks crossing on busy north tce


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2.5 Summary from the Principal The Way2Go data is very interesting, and challenges us to arrive at realistically achievable targets. It is clear from the data that:

Only 39% of the 82 older students who responded to the survey live in Port Elliot. About 30% of our students live beyond 5Km from school. About 54% of our students live beyond 2Km from school. 54% of parents surveyed see distance as the key factor in influencing how their

children travel to school. This aligns with the 54% who live beyond 2Km from school. About 63% of respondents’ children are driven to school in a car. This compares

with 70% of older students who said that they usually come to school by car, and 64% who said that they usually go home by car.

So it follows from these percentages and from the reasons given by students (46% who wrote reasons said that they live too far away) that the target in the plan of decreasing car transportation by 10% is quite ambitious, and would be close to the upper limit of what is possible.

(Is this 10% meant to be 10% of the 63% who drive their children to school? This would represent a 6.3% reduction in the overall percentage who drive their children to school, making the target a total of 56.7%. This would be more achievable than a flat 10% reduction to 53%).

An interesting point to note from the 82 responses from older students is that, if we accept that we are the ‘local school’ for our students who live in Port Elliot (39%) and Middleton (12%) then 49% of our students come from the natural catchment areas of other DECS schools. This exercising of parental choice is reassuring from a school enrolment point-of-view, but is a limiting factor in our ability to encourage students to get themselves to school by non-motorised means. With regard to the students of Port Elliot Primary School who live on the southern side of North Terrace, Port Elliot, at Middleton, or at Hayborough, the lack of safe crossings of North Terrace remains an obstacle to non-car travel. A suggested single pedestrian crossing installed near The Strand, Port Elliot, would not, in my view, provide a solution to this problem. Only crossings at both the eastern and western ends of the town would cater for the many students who live west of Rosetta Terrace, Port Elliot, and east of Strangways Terrace, Port Elliot. These students include those living at Middleton who may make more use of the bike track if there were a safe crossing of North Terrace or of the main road between Port Elliot and Middleton. Chris Tapscott Principal Port Elliot Primary School


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2.6 Other comments about school travel [provided by Department for Transport, Energy and Infrastructure]


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3. Targets

To establish classroom programs in Term 2, 2011 & 2012 and provide teachers with resource packs.

To improve Community Education through the newsletter, education and home pamphlets.

To fund and establish a covered bike and scooter shelter. Implement the Bike-Ed program with upper primary classes. To decrease car transportation by 10% before 2013 To improve the infrastructure including improved pathways surrounding

the school. To establish the infrastructure around safe crossing of North Terrace.

4. Education plan

Way2Go Behaviour Linking Grid

Behaviour Issue Early Years

Topic Primary Years

Topic Middle Years

Topic

Visibility Issues (trees, parked cars) Unit 1 – Topic C, D Unit 2 – Topic A, E

Unit 2 – Topic A, C, E, F Unit 2 – Topic a, C, E

Entering and Exiting Vehicles (safety door use) Unit 3 – Topic A, B Unit 3 – Topic B Unit 3 – Topic A

Use of Seatbelts and Restraints Unit 3 – Topic C Unit 3 – Topic A Unit 3 – Topic A, D

Calling Children Across The Road Unit 2 – Topic D Unit 2 – Topic A Unit 3 – Topic B

Unit 2 – Topic B, D

Footpath/Crossing Hazards Unit 2 – Topic B Unit 2 – Topic B, F Unit 2 – Topic A, C, D

Safe Pedestrian Behaviour Running on the Footpath

Unit 2 – Topic A, B, E Unit 2 – Topic A, D Unit 2 – Topic A, B, D, E


Education Plan (after 2013 we will repeat this plan and add in additional units as required for 2014 and 2015)

Lesson 1

Setting The Scene

Lesson 2

Safe and healthy pedestrians

Lesson 3 Safe passengers

Lesson 4 Safe Cycling and

Play

Lesson 5 Safetrack

Early Years

Unit 1 Topic C: Be seen be safer

Home info sheet 13

Unit 2 Topic A: Safe pedestrian behaviours

Home info sheet 26

Unit 3 Topic C: Click, clack, front and back.

Home info sheet 13

Unit 4 Topic A: Gearing up for safe play

Home info sheet 16

Unit 5 Topic A: About trains and trams

Home info sheet 30

Primary

Years

Unit 1 Topic D: Cars and our health Home info sheet 21

Unit 2 Topic A: Stop, Look , Listen, think in difficult situations Home info sheet 6

Unit 3 Topic A: Always wear a seatbelt Home info sheet 12

Unit 4 Topic A: Being ready for independent travel- choices and responsibilities Home info sheet 16

Unit 5 Topic B : Safety at pedestrian crossings Home info sheet 33 20

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Middle years

Unit 1 Topic A: Sharing the road Home info sheet 36

Unit 2 Topic B: Choices and consequences

Unit 3 Topic A: Safe Passengers Home info sheet No:38

Unit 4 Topic A: Safer rider Home info sheet 39

Unit 4 Topic C: Road Rules

Early Years

Unit 1 Topic B: Signs and signals Home info sheet 2

Unit 2 Topic C: Hold my hand Home info sheet 8

Unit 3 Safe passengers Topic A: Safe passenger behaviour in cars

Home info sheet 26

Unit 4 Topic B: Safe places to ride and play Home info sheet 17

Unit 5 Topic B: Safety at pedestrian crossings Home info sheet 33

Primary

Years

Unit 1 Topic E: Cars and our community space Home info sheet 22

Unit 2 Topic E: Walking for well being Home info sheet 10

Unit 3 Topic B: Safe behaviour in and around cars Home info sheet 12

Unit 4 Topic B Always wear your helmet when you ride or skate Home info sheet 16 + Cycling and the law

Unit 5 Topic D: Travelling safely Home info sheet 34

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Middle years

Unit 1 Topic B: Car culture

Unit 2 Topic C: Hazards, road safety and the media Home info sheet 37

Unit 3 Topic C: Distractions and consequences Home info sheet 38

Unit 4 Topic B: Smart machines Home info sheet 39

Unit 5 Topic D: Safety on platforms, trains and trams Home info sheet 40

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5. Active travel program

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Action Time Line Responsibility Anticipated Cost/ Resources

Progress to date

1.Conduct parent and student surveys May, 2011 DTEI & Active Travel Action Committee

Nil Complete 2011

2.Have an Active travel column in every newsletter

Ongoing Vicki Nil, Ideas from AT Package/W2G website

Complete 2011

3.Through the newsletter and in parent forums encourage parents: to walk or ride with their children between home and school to car (or walk) pool with other families establish a ‘Kiss and Drop’ zone to be aware that the ‘Bus Zone’ is not a parking area to park their car at least one block away from school and

walk the final distance Advertise storage for scooters and skateboards before and

after school

Ongoing Principal, Admin staff and AT Action Committee

Nil Ongoing

4. Undertake regular in-class hands up surveys of travel modes to school.

Ongoing Teaching Staff Nil, use of Smartboards to enter data

Ongoing

5. Hold Walk and Ride to School Days Ongoing Karen, SRC Nil Ongoing

6. Create Active Travel Noticeboard

Ongoing Vicki Nil Ongoing

8. SRC Scooter and Skateboard Days Twice a year Karen, SRC

Nil

Ongoing

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9. Investigate funding/grant opportunities to make active travel more attractive and secure for students/parents/staff.

Student Council Nil


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Action Time Line Responsibility Anticipated Cost/ Resources

Progress to date

1. Review Size of Bus Zone and Establish Kiss and Drop

Zone

After survey and consultation AT Action Committee, School Council, DTEI & Local Council

Council and Community

1. Development of footpaths for safe walking and riding to

school



2. Create crossing outside of school



2012

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3. Access need for more exit points for safe crossing



4. Bike Route/Walking trail between North Terrace and

School

After survey and consultation

SRC, AT Action Committee, School Council, DTEI & Local Council


5. Safe Crossing of North Terrace



6. Construction of bus shelter for Primary and High

School students After survey and consultation

SRC, AT Action Committee, School Council, DTEI & Local Council


6. Council works plan

7. Monitoring and review

8. Endorsement The School Travel Plan for Port Elliot Primary School has been endorsed by the Principal on behalf of the school, and representatives of the local government council and the Department for Transport, Energy and Infrastructure (DTEI). Principal: Mr. Chris Tapscott

Signature: __________________________________

Date: _______________ Way2Go Focus teacher: Ms. Karen Robinson

Signature: ______________________________

Date: ________________

Way2Go Focus teacher: Mrs. Jodie Allsop

Signature: ______________________________

Date: ________________

Way2Go Focus teacher: Ms. Vicki Lacey

Signature: ______________________________

Date: ________________

Representative of the Governing Council: Mrs. Jacqueline Brayford

Signature: ______________________________________

Date: ________________

Representative of the Student Council: Maddie Turley, Rachel Heysen-Smith & Mel Emmerson

Signature: __________________________________

Date: ________________

Representative of Local Government Council: __________________________________

Signature: __________________________________

Date: _______________ Representative of Department for Transport, Energy and Infrastructure: _____________________________

Signature: __________________________________

Date: _______________


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9. Results [insert hands up survey results in graph, include date and brief summary statement]

10. Annual update Ends first year [Term2 2012] Ends second year [Term2 2013]

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