Supporting active travel
Promoting a healthy lifestyle and environmental responsibility is an important aspect of our ethos of “Love • Care • Excellence”. This includes, since 2005, working with officers and advisors from Southwark Council Sustainable Travel and Southwark Safer Routes to School to establish our annually evolving School Travel Plan.In October 2023 we were once again awarded Transport for London’s top STARS Gold level accreditation for our efforts promoting safer and healthier travel habits. We were first awarded Gold in 2018 and have continuously held this top accreditation since then.
As TfL explain on their website, this certifies that we are among the top 10% of London schools, setting high standards to inspire others to transform travel habits, fully engaging the wider community to promote best practices, and seeing a measurable reduction in the number of journeys made to and from school by car every day.
In 2018 we also won TfL’s School of the Region for the South – something we are incredibly proud of.
As managing road safety, traffic levels and parking is an ongoing challenge which constantly requires obtaining support and ‘buy-in’ from an evolving body of parents and staff, we will continue to do all we can to further encourage sustainable travel through an array of initiatives.
Transport for London’s Award for 2018 School of the Region
This photo was taken in December 2018 on the day we received TfL’s Award for 2018 School of the Region for the South at City Hall. It shows our Teacher Louise Lomax, who deserves special praise for championing our various initiatives for sustainable travel, with her baby Ivy, our Headteacher Ngaire Telford and two of our Year 2 pupils. They received the award on behalf of all the children and families at Herne Hill School, who are really the ones who secured this award for us.
Our thanks go out to them all for their continued efforts in this hugely important issue to the benefit of everyone in our local Herne Hill community and beyond.
