Haddington Infant School Travel Team
Minutes of meeting held on Wednesday 27th October 2010
Present:
Elisa Smith
Polly Cooke
Jean Squires
Roz Maguire
Erica Muirhead
Apologies:
Marshall Greenshields
Shirley Swinton
1.
Travel Plan
The Travel Team worked through the action plan set out in the current Travel Plan document (dated
January 2007). An updated action plan will be drawn up as a result of these discussions, and will
include the items detailed in these minutes.
2.
New joint campus
Representatives from the Travel Team would like to meet with Mr Andy Shaw, Strategic Planning
Officer from East Lothian Council’s Education Department, to discuss their part in planning the
infrastructure around the new joint campus of Haddington Infant School and St Mary’s Primary.
Action ES
3.
School Travel Survey
A new survey to ask parents about their travel to and from school will be drawn up and distributed to
pupils. Travel Team to liaise with Mrs Swinton to determine how best to distribute it (e.g at Parent
Consultation, in children’s school bags, or during Road Safety Week).
Action JS
4.
Safer Routes Map
Travel Team to look at the existing ‘Safer Routes’ map and see if/how it can be updated to be more
user friendly.
Action PC
5.
Road Safety Week
Travel Team to ask Mrs Swinton if Haddington Infants will be promoting National Road Safety Week –
November 22nd to 28th. Members are happy to apply for the resources packs on behalf of the school if
necessary.
Action ES
6.
‘Living Streets’
Travel Team would like the charity Living Streets to come in and look at Haddington, and the area
around the schools, to see if they can give any advice on improvements which can be made. Elisa
Smith has been in contact with them and is awaiting a response.
Action ES
7.
More pedestrian crossings
The Travel Team would like to present local Councillors with a map/document highlighting the areas
they feel additional pedestrian crossings would be beneficial, and will then lobby to have these
installed. They would not only help to create more safe routes to schools but would help make
Haddington more pedestrian friendly.
Action TT
Travel Team Cluster group meetings
The Travel Team feel there should be more frequent meetings with travel teams from the other local
schools, especially in light of the new joint campus. We would like to focus some of our efforts on
Haddington as a whole, rather than just the area around the Infant school, to try and create a more
pedestrian friendly town which will also be safer for children travelling to and from school. The next
cluster group meeting is scheduled for January but we would like to find out who is representing the
other schools so we can start a cluster email list to share information, and to set up additional
meetings.
Action TT
8.