Air Quality Quick Guides

Welcome to our Air Quality Quick Guides! These essential resources are designed to help schools celebrate and promote better air quality. By clicking on the guide titles you can follow these guides and enhance your school travel plan, ensuring the school community breathes cleaner air, and enjoy benefits such as improved health, increased wellbeing, and contributing to a more sustainable environment.

Park and Stride/Walk AQ4

While walking, wheeling, cycling, or scooting all the way to school is encouraged, the Park and Stride option offers a practical alternative for families who can't travel actively the entire way. By parking a short distance from school and completing the journey on foot or wheels, it promotes daily active travel, reduces congestion at school gates, and helps pupils arrive more alert and ready to learn.

Parent Parking Campaign AQ7 

Poor parking at school gates negatively impacts road safety, air quality, and active travel for children. Schools can promote good parking through parent campaigns and child-led initiatives, encouraging positive behaviour change and demonstrating efforts to tackle the issue. These campaigns can contribute to the school's Travel Plan and Modeshift Accreditation.

No-idling Initiative AQ13

Engine idling has harmful effects on public health, the environment, and fuel consumption, but can be addressed through education and positive behaviour changes. Child-led initiatives at schools can promote better habits among drivers, improve local air quality, and educate students about air pollution and climate action.