What is Modeshift STARS?
Modeshift STARS is a National Award for School Travel Plans, established to recognise schools that have demonstrated excellence in supporting cycling, walking and other forms of sustainable travel.
The aims of Modeshift STARS:
- Promoting healthier lifestyles – by encouraging people to get active through more walking and cycling, thereby creating healthier and more productive communities.
- Creating safer environments – by helping organisations to identify and address travel and transport issues to enable safer journeys for all.
- Promoting urban and rural regeneration – by ensuring that places are well connected, and that people are well informed of the travel options that are available to them.
- Improving Air Quality – by reducing the number of vehicles and congestion around sites to improve the quality of air locally.
We are working with Kirklees council on this project, 20% of schools across Kirklees are Modeshift schools."
How much progress have we made?
- We signed up in March 2024
A ‘Good’ level of accreditation was achieved in Spring/Summer 2024
By Winter 2024, we hope to achieve ‘Very Good’ level.
The next levels would be ‘Excellent’, followed by ‘Outstanding’
To achieve the higher levels of accreditation we need:
- consistent effort
- engagement in Safe
- active
- environmentally Friendly Travel over a longer period of time.
What’s in the pipeline?
- Discussions at School council meetings
- Road Safety story time for our Reception pupils in October
- Year 4 and Year 5 will be speed watching in October
- In support of anti-idling, our School Council will take part in a balloon release demonstration tihs October
- First Aid skills will be developed for our Year 6 children throughout October, November and December
More to come in 2025!"