George Pringle Elementary School is taking part in a School Travel Planning project that encourages more students walk, cycle or otherwise use active transportation for the school journey wherever possible. The School Travel Planing program is delivered in partnership with the City of West Kelowna, School District 23, Interior Health, Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Sustainable Transportation Partnership of the Central Okanagan.

The benefits of more students making the school journey on foot or by bike include:

  • Increased safety
  • Improved health
  • Arriving alert and ready to learn
  • Less stress, greater happiness
  • Less pollution
  • Reduced traffic congestion at and around the school

Through the School Travel Planning program, parents, teachers and your school's administration staff have been working with municipal, school district and public health officials to deal with the issues that prevent students from using active transportation.

This survey is a follow up to one conducted in May 2015. Your feedback will help evaluate the performance of safety measures and routes put in place as a result of the previous survey.

Every family’s input is important to the success of this project.

Please provide input in the following ways:

1. Survey

Please take five minutes with your eldest child who attends this school to complete the survey by Friday May 31, 2019.

2. Stories

Provide additional details about the journey to and from school and add ideas on how to encourage students to walk or cycle to school.

SURVEY

Casorso School Travel Planning follow-up family survey - Draft

Which school travel program activities do you feel have been most effective for your family? Required
What are the main reasons your child is usually driven to/from school? Required
I would allow my child to walk to school if… Required
I would allow my child to cycle to school if… Required
In what ways have your family's school travel habits changed for the trip TO school, since the School Travel Planning program began (October 2020)? Required
If you are driving less for trips TO school, what are you/your child doing more of? Required
In what ways have your family's school travel habits changed for the trip FROM school, since the School Travel Planning Program began? Required
If you are driving less for trips FROM school, what are you/your child doing more of? Required
Do you support ongoing School Travel Planning efforts to make the school area safer, healthier and better connected to the community, by focusing on ways to reduce the number of children travelling to and from school by car? Required
How far away from the school do you live? If you are not sure, check Google Maps (https://maps.google.ca/). If you are unfamiliar with Google Maps, instructions can be found at: http://bit.ly/gmaps_instructions Required
Our neighbourhood is safe for children to walk to and from school. Required
Do you have a child/children who attend Casorso? Required
Did you complete the Family Transportation Survey in October 2020? Required
How does your child usually get TO school? Required
How does your child usually get FROM school to home or an after-school program? Required
Is the travel FROM school to an after-school program? Required
Do you usually accompany your child to school? Required
What is the gender of the child you are answering this survey for? Required
What feeling do you have most of the time when you are travelling TO school? Required
What feeling do you have most of the time when you are travelling FROM school? Required
Has the volume of vehicle traffic outside this school changed since the School Travel Planning Pilot Program began? Required
How do you usually feel on the trip to school? Required
Contact information
If your child is usually driven to or from school, please complete the next three questions.
The next two questions are for the ELDEST child at this school. Please ask your child the following questions.

The School Travel Planning follow-up family survey has now concluded

STORIES

Tell your story - Draft

Consultation has concluded