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 (46)
Ambler Primary School and Children’s Centre
Archway Children’s Centre
Ashmount Primary School
Beacon High
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 Primary School
Hugh Myddelton Primary School
Hungerford School (The Bridge)
Laycock Primary School
New River College Primary School
New River Green Children’s Centre
Newington Green Primary School
Packington Children’s Centre
Pakeman Primary School
Pooles Park 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
Samuel Rhodes Secondary 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 Luke’s CofE Primary School
St Mark’s CofE Primary School
St Mary Magdalene Academy
St Mary’s CofE Primary School
St Paul’s Steiner School
The Children’s House School
The Courtyard Islington
The Gower School
Thornhill Primary School
Tufnell Park Primary School
Vittoria Primary School
William Tyndale Primary School
Winton Primary School
Yerbury Primary School
Silver Accreditation (4)
Conewood Children’s Centre
St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary School
Westbourne Early Years Centre
Willow Children’s Centre
Bronze Accreditation (4)
City of London Academy, Highbury Grove
Elizabeth Garret Anderson School
Moreland Primary School and Children’s Centre
Whitehall Park School
Engaged (10)
Arts and Media School Islington
Bemerton Children’s Centre
Dallington School
Goodinge Early Years Centre
Highbury Fields School
Kate Greenaway Nursery School
Margaret McMillan Nursery School
St Aloysius RC College
The Bridge Integrated Learning Space
The Bridge School