Further to a number of blog posts - parents give their views to the Governors. If I have not quoted from your letter its because they are coming in day by day - keep it up!
http://tomlinscote-kings.blogspot.com/2011/05/thank-you-to-everyone-who-joined-us.html
http://tomlinscote-kings.blogspot.com/2011/05/travel-may-be-worst-for-kings-ks4s.html
http://tomlinscote-kings.blogspot.com/2011/04/surrey-cc-against-its-own-travel-policy.html
http://tomlinscote-kings.blogspot.com/2011/03/travel-chaos.html
http://tomlinscote-kings.blogspot.com/2011/04/merger-traffic-would-go-through-air.html
http://tomlinscote-kings.blogspot.com/2011/04/travel-plans-for-schools.html
http://tomlinscote-kings.blogspot.com/2011/04/travel-planning-in-surrey-heath.html
"I am also worried about how my child would get to the Tomlinscote site. We live 5 minutes from Kings and currently my child can walk to school. If the merger went ahead I would probably have to drive them as there is currently no direct bus route. This would involve me having to fight my way through the traffic every morning and having to hurry back to get my younger child to a local school. I feel a 40 minute walk to school every morning is too much."
"The roads in our area are already dangerously overcrowded at exactly the times the children need to make there way to the new school. Do we make this situation worse by adding to the congestion by driving him to the old Kings site or do we let him walk. He would need to cross the extremely busy Portsmouth Road which is going to be very dangerous as there is no crossing near to where we live. Presently he can walk to Tomlinscote and so his carbon footprint is low and this also saves us money on petrol."
"I have read the comments from Surrey CC regarding a bus service but like many others on Heatherside will not qualify for this bus service."
"In my case the only reason for sending my children to Tomlinscote was in order for them to be able to walk to school"
"I see from the Surrey CC consultation document that we will also NOT be eligible for the free bus"
"....and I don't feel happy for them to walk such a distance on such busy roads. Therefore I will need to now drive from my house to Kings as will a large number of Heatherside residents where currently their children all walk to school."
"I am a working parent and will be unable to collect my child from Kings in the middle of the afternoon. A 12/13 year old cannot surely be expected to walk 2.8 miles home by which time in the winter it will almost certainly be completely dark."
"....would have to leave the house at around 7.45 in order to get a bus into Camberley and then walk the remaining distance. Again in winter this would be dark."
"Whilst walking this 35-40 minute journey, he will be carrying several bags twice a day. Has anybody thought about back injuries to these young children carrying heavy loads. Would YOU carry a laptop bag twice a day for this length of time? And what about during bad weather?"
"..... chose Tomlinscote School, so that my children could walk to and from school safely. After taking part in the ‘walk’ to King’s International today, it was very apparent that there is absolutely no way my child would be able to do walk the 2.8 miles to King’s with all their bags and equipment."
"....instead of a 5 minute walk to school would have to walk for 35 minutes each way with her school bag, packed lunch, laptop bag and on some days PE kit........."
"The walk is along extremely dangerous and treacherous roads which are extremely busy during the peak times, which is when my child would be walking. Today I undertook the walk taking the exact route they would take and it took over an hour each way! This is totally unacceptable as at present it takes 3 minutes from my front door to Tomlinscote back gate! "
"I know that it would take him approx 45 mins to do this and back again at the end of the day. This is not a good use of his time and will leave him tired (too tired for homework?) each day. It doesn't bode well for after school activities either."
"Inability for children to attend after school clubs due to the walk home in the dark in winter months and the close proximity of rush hour traffic."
"Another reason I selected Tomlinscote for both my children is because we can walk to school."
"increased traffic will greatly add to, the already, congested roads in the Camberley area. The road infrastructure does not need this extra unnecessary traffic."
"I was also under the impression that both our Government and the G12 are currently all working to try and reduce carbon omissions, yet this proposed merger will force up to an estimated 1,000 more vehicles onto Frimley’s already congested roads, thereby sending the carbon footprint for the area off the scale! I am sure David Cameron would like to see the predicted carbon omission figures if this goes ahead. As Governors you are aware of the very large percentage of children attending Tomlinscote School who walk to and from school each day and for whom this proposal is going to prevent from happening in future, forcing everyone into cars in order to get to school and back."
"For the children coming from Frimley, it would mean that their way to school will go along a busy four lane road. The proposal is unnecessarily putting children’s lives at risk."
"The two schools are 1.8 miles from each other with only one vehicle route between them. This route passes the UK headquarters of the large international company Siemens, Frimley Park Hospital and a large business park near the Frimley roundabout. Some of this route is along the most heavily congested roads in the borough."
"When we make our choice for a school we take into account our ability to get our children to the site in a timely and safe manner. With this in mind I chose a school my son could walk to so that I can get all 3 of my children to school on time - I now do not know how I will manage this."
"For a child to walk the distance to Kings carrying all their bags, laptops etc is just too much to ask of them. "
"The result will be everyone jumping into their cars for the school run, the impact of which will be disastrous on our already overburdened road system, especially at the front of the hospital. The area is going to grind to a halt if we aren't careful - surely these wider issues should be given serious thought when deciding on the future of the school."
".....would now have to walk 1.5 miles to the Kings site crossing major roads which have very heavy traffic, past sites which have a very heavy flow of traffic in the morning (Siemens, Frimley Roundabout) and back past sites which have heavy traffic in the afternoon (Frimley Park Hospital)."
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