Active Travel Crew
We are a group of pupils in Year 6 who are interested in promoting active travel.
What do we do?
As Active Travel Crew, we have given ourselves the following job description …
- Promote Active Travel
- Arrange fun activities every half term to encourage active travel
- Deliver assemblies to promote active travel
- Be good active travel role models through walking, scooting and cycling to school.
When do we meet?
We meet every other week to plan, create and develop our ideas.
What kind of events do we arrange ?
- We arrange events such as Dr Bike, Bling your Bike, Be Bright Be Seen Fashion Show, Bike Bus Rides and Bike It Breakfasts.
- We deliver assemblies to encourage active travel and we have taken part in bicycle maintenance workshops to improve our own cycle skills.
- We work closely with Mrs Brown and Abi Roberts from Sustrans.
- Every year our school participates in the Big Walk and Wheel challenge, Walk to School Week and Cycle to school week.
How do we raise awareness ?
We raise awareness of active travel through -
- Social media
- Events
- School newsletter
- Ensure good cycle and scooter storage
- Awards and prizes for showing great effort in coming to school actively
We are currently working towards our Gold Active Travel School Award - this is awarded to schools who demonstrate an ongoing commitment to promoting active and sustainable travel over several years , which has led to significant and lasting organisational, cultural and behavioural.
Currently there are only two schools in Wales with this award and we are determined to be the third!
2023 - 2024
Meet our Active Travel Crew 2023 - 2024
The Active Travel Crew celebrated a year of promoting cycling, walking and scooting by going on a 16k bike ride to the Secret Garden cafe
July 2024: A great turnout for our last bike Bus of the year - and a farewell to Alice, one of our founder members, as she heads off to High School in September.
June 2024: What a fantastic joint Bike Bus with Ysgol Melin Gruffydd from Whitchurch Common!
May 2024: A fantastic, happy, joyful way to travel to school! We really enjoyed our first joint bike bus with Melin Gruffydd
Great turnouts for the Bike Buses during the Summer Term!
What a fabulous start to the final week of the Big Walk and Wheel, boosted by our Bike Bus. Da iawn bawb!
What a fantastic turnout for the Active Travel Crew's 'Bling your Bike or Scooter for Christmas' event! We asked pupils to decorate their bikes and scooters so that they are bright and easily visible on these dark winter mornings and evenings.
A festive Friday Bike Bus just before Christmas! We ate some mince pies and all had a chocolate decoration to hang on our bikes. Nadolig llawen!
Two Bike Buses in Whitchurch Village: Whitchurch Primary and Ysgol Melin Gruffydd.
Our first Bike Bus of this academic year, on Friday 15th September 2023.
2022 - 2023

