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Travelwise for secondary schools Secondary schools

Travelwise for secondary schools enhances knowledge and awareness of road and driver safety, active transport, and introduces students to the resources and skills they need to develop a successful Travelwise campaign for their school community.

Secondary schools programme

Get started

If you’ve created a Travelwise student group or a Students Against Dangerous Driving (SADD) group, congratulations! That means you’ve got a group of passionate, proactive people together and you’re ready to shake things up and change them for the better.

Group structure

At your first meeting, you need to decide as a group:

  • Who will chair the meeting (if you don’t have a teacher in your group, nominate a leader or chairperson).
  • When and how often you are going to meet.
  • Where you'll meet.
  • How long meetings will go on for.
  • Who to notify if you can’t attend.

The chairperson is in charge of keeping discussions on track and making sure everything that needs to be, is covered in the time available.

Make the most of meetings

Meetings are a great way to get everyone together and figure out what your group is trying to achieve – and then how you’re going to do it!
try a fun brainstorming activity to draw out everyone’s ideas. 

Taking note of decisions you make at your meetings can prevent you from having to discuss the same things over again. It’s also a great way to look back at the end of the year at everything you have achieved.

Sometimes people become too busy to attend your meetings. If this is happening it’s a good time to revisit the basics:

  • When and how often you are going to meet.
  • How long meetings will go on for.
  • Who to notify if you can’t attend.

Make sure your group is always open to new members and that there are people to take over for the coming year.

Leadership

The Travelwise student leadership programme can be delivered to your group through your Community Transport Coordinator. If your group is interested, your CTC can discuss this with school management.

Get planning

  • Recruit New Members: Put out a notice, collect applications or hold a Travelwise Leaders open evening to encourage your peers to get involved with Travelwise.
  • Determine Your Direction: Travelwise covers a lot of information over a wide range of transportation. Do some surveys, investigations and observations of your school community and decide what you’d like to focus on for the year- remember to look at what the team did last year!
  • Set some goals for what you’d like to achieve this year. Keep them manageable and measurable. You may want to use our Travelwise Action Planner (available on our website) to help you out. Use the Quick Fire Ideas in this toolkit to give you some ideas for where to start. 

Make it happen

  • Take Action: Put your plans into action. Don’t be afraid to ask for help from your teachers, school, parents, peers, Auckland Transport (AT), NZ Police, SADD, Attitude or other organisations and people to achieve your goals.

Next steps

  • How did it go? Don’t be discouraged if you didn’t get the results you expected. Leave good notes for the team next year and they can expand on what you started.

Travelwise Whole School approach

The AT Travelwise programme delivers a Whole School approach to improving road safety and reducing congestion around schools. Safe School Travel Plans are developed and delivered by the school community working in partnership with AT, Auckland Council, New Zealand Police and other community groups and organisations.

Activities and events

Here are some ideas for activities and events your group can organise to raise awareness of road safety messages and even to raise funds so you can do more.

Cool campaigns for inspiration

Information for young drivers

Learn about the rules for getting your drivers licence and get information about road safety on our Young drivers page.

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