Wednesday, August 22, 2012

School Travel Plan Inquiry Update

We are the travel plan inquiry group. We are the group whose job it is to make coming to school safer and more environmentally friendly. So far we have met up and had a meeting with people from the Wellington City Council and the Wellington Regional Council. Emma was at the Wellington City Council and talked to us about the questions we might ask for the parent survey. Sam was at Wellington Regional Council and she showed us some survey software to use and how to create our own travel plan survey. 

In our learning process we are at the problem posing stage which means we are still asking questions and finding out information so that we know what the problems are. Once we know what the problems are we will move into the problem space and think of ways to solve the problems. 


When we had finished our research finding out how students travel to school (we all kept travel charts for one week), the results we got were shocking. 54% of Harakeke Hub students travel to school in the car! That's over half! If you think that's shocking then listen to this, nearly 3/4 of Koru Hub come in the car as well! Our school is an environmentally friendly school and travelling in the car is not good for the environment. Our school zone is small so most students live very close by. We need to come up with ways to get kids to travel to school in more environmentally friendly and healthy ways. So please if you can, scooter,skate,cycle or walk to school and if you are in Koru and you have a big sister or brother you could walk with them.

Our next step is send out our parent survey. (Please fill this in when it comes to you!) Then we will think of ways to encourage kids to come to school in a healthy way.




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