Task list and timeline for reaccreditation of your travel plan with Modeshift STARS
This page is for schools looking to get reaccredited on Modeshift STARS to a Good (bronze) level. The below timeline outlines the steps needed to reaccredit your school travel plan to bronze within a school term.
To progress your plan above to Very Good (Silver), Excellent (Gold) and so on, will require additional steps. Please either speak to the Safer Travel Team for guidance, or Modeshift's accreditation checklist downloadable from the School Travel Plan Resources page).
Step 1: Login to Modeshift STARS
To be completed across weeks 1 and 2.
Login to Modeshift STARS. If you can't remember your password, just click 'forgotten password' in the bottom right corner of the login screen.
Review your Introduction tab to update your pupil and staff numbers, and Site Audit for any changes to the school infrastructure that may have taken place. Both sections now have a section to show it has had a yearly review.
Aims and Objectives, should already be completed and will likely not need an update. Working Group is if the school has a group of at least 2 pupils and 2 staff that discuss road safety, travel related issues. Most commonly this is an Eco Council within the school. (Note: this is not needed for Good, but is mandatory for the higher levels.
Top tip: Make sure you input or update where your pupils and staff are travelling in from. This can be included in the 'intro to your site' field.
Step 2: Re-run your hands-up survey with pupils and staff
To distribute the survey across weeks 3 and 4.
Primary schools need an 80% response rate from pupils and 50% from staff to meet threshold. Secondary schools need a 70% response rate from pupils and 50% from staff to meet threshold.
After all pupils and staff have completed the survey using the survey link that you will send out across the school, make sure that the 'student travel modal shift' and 'staff travel modal shift' tabs are showing and show your survey data.
Top tip: The simplest way to complete your survey is to copy and paste the link under 'survey link' in the 'site tab' and send this to class, or homeroom teachers. They can then conduct the simple hands up survey with the students, asking just two questions and inputting the answers. It should take less than 5 minutes. Staff can use the same link to input their own answers.
Step 3: Review your transport issues
To be completed across weeks 4 and 5.
Review your transport issues and make sure they're still current issues and haven't been resolved. If they have been resolved, click into the issue and change to resolved. Issues will last 5 years after submission, after which they will either need to be resubmitted or marked as resolved. Schools need a minimum of 1 issue.
Step 4: Set 2 new targets
To be completed across weeks 6 and 7, or after the half term break, once all your survey results are in.
These targets will be set for the next school year (and will be checked against your next survey). There are 3 types of target. A modal shift student, and staff target and a qualitative target. The first two types will be to set a transport goal for staff or students, ie target to reduce percentage of students travelling by car from 50% to 45%. The information from your surveys this year will automatically be added to make this simpler.
If you wish to set a qualitative or Other target such as, 'reducing the number of resident complaints about poor parent parking by x% over the next 12 months' you can, but you must make sure it is something that will be measurable by next year.
You will need at least 1 modal shift target for the next year. These targets can relate to your Issues but they must have at least 1 initiative which support meeting these targets.
Step 5: Review current initiatives and update
To be completed across weeks 8 and 9.
Remember, for Good accreditation you need at least 10 completed travel initiatives, 5 completed supporting travel initiatives and at least 2 completed consultation initiatives. All of these must be unique (Please refer to the Modeshift STARS Education Initiatives Guide which is also available from our resources.).
Top tip: Initiatives last for 3 years, so it maybe that you will already have the completed amount based on last years work. If possible add all the initiatives you have completed this year to keep your plan updated. At a minimum you should add 2 Travel Initiatives and 1 Supporting Initiative.
Evidence is not required for Good level but it is best practice and recommended as it is required for Very Good and above.
Step 6: Finish and email the Safer Travel Team to say you've completed the amends to your school travel plan
To be completed across weeks 10 and 11.
Once you've completed the above tasks, then please email schooltravelplans@surreycc.gov.uk to let us know that your plan is complete. We will then moderate the plan with our colleague in Auditing and provide feedback or sign off.