Travelwise
Pinehill is a TravelWise School
TravelWise is an ongoing project with a set of practical actions that aim to improve road safety and promote sustainable school travel journeys. It is a partnership between Auckland Regional Transport Authority, North Shore City Council, and the school. Our school is committed to safe, active and sustainable travel to and from school.
The benefits include:
- Reduced traffic congestion at the school gates, this improves safety for all children.
- Reduction of polluting car emissions in the environment.
- Helping children learn road safety skills and become familiar with their community.
- Improved engineering infrastructure to promote walking / cycling within the school zone.
- Encouraging walking / cycling to improve children’s fitness and health.
- Encouraging walking / cycling to ensure that children arrive alert and ready to learn.
- Promoting the Walking School Bus
We encourage all our children to walk to and from school.
In order to make this a safer process we have adopted a number of practices which we hope will encourage parents to support the idea of walking to school.
- We have a 40 kph speed zone around all the approaches to our school
- We have supervised crossings on Hugh Green Drive and Spencer Road
- We have 3 walking school bus routes
- Road Safe is taught regularly as part of our curriculum
More information about TravelWise and Walking School Buses across North Shore City can be found at: http://www.northshorecity.govt.nz/