School travel plans
How Islington Council supports schools across the borough to increase active travel, reduce car use and tackle pollution on the school run.
We encourage schools across the borough to make a school travel plan using the Transport for London (TfL) Travel for Life accreditation platform.
TfL Travel for Life is designed to inspire and enable young Londoners to travel more sustainably, healthily, and safely. The platform helps schools identify transport issues and put together a travel plan to help solve these. As schools make progress with their travel plan, they can be awarded bronze, silver or gold TfL Travel for Life accreditation.
How a good school travel plan works
A good school travel plan will consider the concerns of pupils, teachers, parents/carers, governors and members of the local community, and will involve all these groups to develop solutions. Schools that take part in TfL Travel for Life and develop a successful travel plan report benefits including:
- Reduced traffic congestion and improved air quality
- Improved travel awareness and road user skills
- A healthier and more active school community
- A safer environment for walking, wheeling, cycling and riding a scooter
- An increase in independence and responsibility among students.
If you are a staff member, parent or carer and would like to discuss your school’s travel planning and active travel needs, please email SchoolTravelPlans@islington.gov.uk.
How to create and develop your school travel plan
- Register for the TfL Travel for Life website
- Set out your school's travel issues and what you will do to address them.
- Choose from more than 100 TfL Travel for Life activities that encourage healthier, safer travel.
- Complete TfL Travel for Life activities that help your school tackle travel issues.
- Apply for bronze, silver or gold accreditation to show your achievements in improving the way people travel to school.
How Islington can help
We offer support, resources and activities to help you build on your active travel ambitions and achieve TfL Travel for Life accreditation.
Islington’s active travel officer gives schools one-to-one support on their active travel journey, including help to develop a travel plan, training to use the online platform, and offers prizes and competitions throughout the year.
For more information about TfL Travel for Life and Islington’s active travel work with schools, please email SchoolTravelPlans@islington.gov.uk.
Accredited Islington settings
List of Islington accredited settings
Gold accreditation
- Ambler Primary School and Children's Centre
- Ashmount Primary School
- Beacon High
- Canonbury Primary School
- Christ The King Catholic Primary School
- City of London Primary Academy, Islington
- Drayton Park Primary School
- Duncombe Primary School
- Gillespie Primary School
- Grafton Primary School
- Hanover Primary School
- Hargrave Park Primary School
- Highbury Quadrant Primary School
- Hugh Myddelton Primary School
- Hungerford School
- Laycock Primary School
- New River College Primary
- Newington Green Primary School
- Pakeman Primary School
- Prior Weston Primary School and Children's Centre
- Robert Blair School and Children's Centre
- Rotherfield Primary School
- Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School
- St Andrew's (Barnsbury) Church of England Primary School
- St Joan of Arc RC Primary School
- St John Evangelist RC Primary School
- St John's Highbury Vale CofE Primary School
- St John's Upper Holloway CofE Primary School
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
- St Jude and St Paul's CofE Primary School
- St Luke's CofE Primary School
- St Mark's CofE Primary School
- St Mary Magdalene Academy (primary)
- St Mary's CofE Primary School
- St Paul's Steiner School
- The Children's House School
- The Gower School
- Thornhill Primary School
- Tufnell Park Primary School
- Vittoria Primary School
- William Tyndale Primary School
- Winton Primary School
- Yerbury Primary School
- Pooles Park Primary School
Silver accreditation
- New River Green Children's Centre
- St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary School
Bronze accreditation
- Archway Children's Centre
- Conewood Children's Centre
- Packington Children's Centre
- Samuel Rhodes Secondary School
- The Courtyard Islington
- Westbourne Early Years Centre
- Willow Children's centre
Registered and working towards accreditation
- Arts and Media School Islington
- Bemerton Children's Centre
- Dallington School
- Goodinge Early Years Centre
- Highbury Fields School
- Moreland Primary School
- The Bridge School
- Whitehall Park School