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Travelling to school question.
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We are a 10 minute walk from primary school and no I don't let mine walk there or back on their own... in fact due to the girls mobility ssues we drive more often than not.
DS2 ets the bus back and forth.. it is a 35 minute walk to his seconday school but is along very busy roads as is in the town centre. The other 2 walk there and back to a different high school, it is about 20 minute walk with only 2 roads to cross which both have adequate crossings.LB moment 10/06 Debt Free date 6/6/14Hope to be debt free until the day I dieMortgage-free Wannabee (05/08/30)6/6/14 £72,454.65 (5.65% int.)08/12/2023 £33602.00 (4.81% int.)0 -
My 2 teens have a 15 min walk to school and back, could be 10 mins if they walked fast.
When the little man starts preschool next year, we'll have a 15 min walk there and back too as the schools are next door to each other.Tank fly boss walk jam nitty gritty...0 -
Catchment and nearest primary school is 2.3 miles away. We took the kids by car every day.
Catchment middle school (Y7-Y9) is 5.3 miles, half of which is a dual carriageway with no pavement. Son 2 takes the school bus which picks up 300 yards from home. Bus takes about 40 minutes as it goes round the local villages.
Catchment high school (Y10-Y11) is 10.3 miles away. Son 1 uses the school bus which also picks up 300 yards from home. Takes about 50 minutes.0 -
My primary school was about 2 mile away - so walked or cycled, sometimes driven, but rarely
Secondary was about 13 mile, 1 1/2 miles to bus stop and then bus to school. Generally got driven to the bus stop in the morning but walked home.
The really annoying thing was that the bus was at 7.45 and took about 20 mins so we were in school really early!Weight loss challenge, lose 15lb in 6 weeks before Christmas.0 -
When I started secondary school the bus journey took about 40 mins, although it would have taken less in a car and there was a five minute walk to the busstop. Mum often took us in the car when it was raining heavily. I did envy other children who lived a five minute walk away and who could have finished their homework before I even got home, but it didn't do me any harm. That said, school buses are another place where bullying can occur. (I was bullied in school but not on the bus.)
I wouldn't want a child of mine to travel any further, but that would be ok. (A 30 minute stroll would be a positive in my opinion.)0 -
Primary school is a 2 minute walk away. I can watch them in the school yard from the bedroom window!
Secondary school is a city 12 miles away. At the moment there is a free school bus that collects from a couple villages round here and takes them there and back. However, the service is going to be cut to save council spending, so they'll have to start getting public transport at some point.
They've managed getting home from school by bus when they've wanted to stay for after school activities and it's not possible to pick them up. There is a bus stop outside school and they can get a bus to the high street in our nearest town. They have to walk down the high street to the market place and can get another bus up to our village.
They've managed fine when they've had to travel back by themselves after school and I think they will cope fine once the free school bus is withdrawn.Here I go again on my own....0 -
Primary - well, we bought a house at the edge of the school grounds
so only 2 mins walk.
High School - Would be about a 40 min walk, but DS will get the bus so only about 10-15 minutes. We don't have any motorwarys around here.Cross Stitch Cafe member No. 32012 170-194 2013 195-207.Hello Kitty ballerina 208.AVA 209.OLIVIA 210.ELLA 211.CARLA 212.LOUISE 213.CHARLEY 214.Mother & Child 215.Stop Faffing Completed 2014 216.Stitchers Sampler. 217.Let Them Be Small 218.Keep Calm 219. Ups and downs 220. Annniversary piece 221. 2x Teachers gifts 222. Peacock 223. Tooth Fairy 224. Beth Birth pic 225. Circe the Sorceress Cards x 240 -
Currently less than 5 minutes from the Primary school gates that changes to 1.4 miles to the Secondary school in September, when DS starts. There is a school bus service from our shops, and it's walkable too, it used to take me around 30 minutes,crossing just 1 busy but not really a main rd, which I think will have a lollipop lady on, as there is a Primary school on that road too. DS can also cycle, as there is a cycle land that runs quite a bit of the way there.but I'm not overly keen on him on him doing that to start off with.0
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I bet in the highlands there are some massive commutes to secondary schools involving buses boats and horse drawn carts (I jest). My trip to secondary school was a bus at 7:50 to travel all round the local villages to arrive at school 4 miles direct drive away a 8:20 so the bus could go out again for closer kids. The evening was the reverse so did not get home till 4:30. This was Northamptonshire BTW. At least the bus picked up at the end of my street others in the village had to walk 1 mile to get to the bus first. It's still the same today.0
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My daughter gets the specific school bus to her secondary school, and it takes her about three quarters of an hour through the school run traffic. It's about 15 min by car when the roads are quieter. We walked it once when she missed the bus in the morning, and it took about the same as the bus journey..... Primary school was 20-25 mins walk away.0
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