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Listing of educational initiatives
Physical Improvements
Pedestrian crossing Points - improvements with dedicated pedestrian phases and advanced stop lines for Cyclists fed into consultation for Junction. Iimprovements to be implemented by Transport for London as part of London Bus Initiative.	Woodberry Down School (junction between Seven Sisters and Weymouth Terrace). William Patten School junction between Church Street and High Street Stoke Newington. Haggerston Girls School junction between Whiston road and Kingsland road.
Cycle parking - piloted with full art installation behind at one school.Offer of cycle parking to all participating safe routes schools.	William Patten school pilot scheme working with local artist to decorate rendered wall with year 4 pupils then cycle parking installed. Contractor installed cycle parking at Rushmore Primary Harrington Hill Primary, Skinners Middle School, Sir Thomas Abney School. Large installation for pupils at Stoke Newington school.
Pavement extension - linking two pavements together at dead end stopping children from crossing over road at congested corner.	At William Patten School children and parents were consulted and a failed bid was made to "safe and sound". It was left in the hands of the council where it failed to be submitted for committee approval.
Graffiti removal - young people cited graffiti as a prime concern on their journey to school making an area look shabby and threatening . Therefore graffiti removal was seen as a valid improvement. Attempts were made to make this process sustainable by involving them in process.	Stoke Newington Media Arts College. cited it as a problem through questionnaire. Located graffiti on roads surrounding schools. Frampton Park youth located graffiti around estate and participated in demonstration sessions. Hackney free and parochial school cited as problem through questionnaire. Woodberry Down youth cited as problem on estate through photographic work
Improved access - improvements to the entrances and facilitating the use of alternative access.	Grasmere school - worked on front playground to remove teacher parking and install an entrance structure, entrance now more welcoming. Rear access opened up through lighting improvements in alley behind the school. Access also improved with tree top walk spanning garden and cycle parking facilities installed.
Pollution monitoring equipment - schools were used as stations for pollution monitoring, in air quality action zones, feeding into the London air quality network.	Haggerston Girls - initial interest waned and no equipment installed. Hackney Free and Parochial endeavour to link pollution monitoring equipment into website and curriculum works for pupils.
Pathway improvements - increasing access to area so that road routes on the way to school are discouraged.	Daubeney School - improvements and additions to pathways on Daubeney Green increasing access to the green making the area feel safer and facilitating the use of the green as a route to school. Hampered by planning consent. Mabley Green - providing link from large capital improvement to sport facilities on green to national cycle network and facilitating journeys to school for pupils on the Buxall Crescent Estate. Implementation took longer than planned and it ran out of time.
Street Art - decorated hoardings to hide unsightly derelict area	Harrington Hill, Southwold & Skinners. One class from each school worked with a local artist to decorate some hoardings erected to hide derelict site on the corner of Mount Pleasant Lane and Upper Clapton Road. Great visual impact and still remains graffiti free.
Homezones - improving the route between school and the home, through community consultation. Streets with reduced traffic volumes, lower traffic speeds and traffic-free sections, will feel more civilised and allow all manner of day-to-day activities to return. Streets will be more healthy and less prone to crime.	Relationships were formed with schools but the project was thwarted by the withdrawal of the proposed homezone development in the local area. A compromise was attempted using SRTS monies but yielded no results.
Listing of educational initiatives

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