Travelling to and from School
At Stephen Freeman Primary School, there is not a great deal of available parking close by. The roads closest to the school can become very busy at peak times, and we are striving to improve this for our students; by trying to make the roads safer to navigate on the way to and from school, for our neighbours; by reducing the amount of local traffic, and for our whole community; by encouraging an active lifestyle, public transport and walking/scooting/bike riding.
We have a few initiatives which we hope will make the commute to and from school easier.
WOW - the walk to school challenge
Pupils from over 2,000 schools are getting active with WOW - the walk to school challenge. Want safer, cleaner streets and happier, healthier pupils? Join them!
WOW is a pupil-led initiative where children self-report how they get to school every day using our interactive WOW Travel Tracker. If they travel sustainably at least once a week for a month, they are rewarded with a WOW badge. It's that easy!
WOW schools see 59% fewer car journeys to the school gates and 18% more journeys walking and wheeling all the way to school – plus a whole host of other benefits! WOW is available in English and Welsh.
Park & Stride
In association with Boundary Park, Didcot's premier Sports Club Venue, we now have a Park & Stride Base for our families to use. Parents are now permitted to park in the Boundary Park designated Car Park, and Stride to school the remaining distance (less than 8 minutes walk around the perimeter of the park). The car park will be operational for school drop off and/or pick-up from Monday 1st December 2025, meaning that students can walk to school and back and help promote safer, cleaner streets and happier, healthier lives.