The first stage involved making up a questionnaire asking a wide range of questions about how the pupils travelled to school, the routes they travelled to school and most importantly where they saw there to be dangers on the routes to school.  Pupils were asked to plot their routes to school on the map provided and also mark the danger points on their map.  The questionnaires were distributed to one class in each year group.

The information in the returned questionnaires was collated by the sixth year students and Mr Watson.  The data received enabled the SRTS team to pin point the main danger areas on the routes taken by pupils to school.

The main danger points were identified as being outside the two schools, down at the Churches junction and also at the Linkim Court area.  The results also showed that many pupils were willing to cycle to school but felt unsafe doing so due to the speed of traffic and the congestion in the mornings and afternoons.  Furthermore, a significant number of pupils wanted to feel fitter.  Cycling, football and swimming were a few of the activities they wanted to participate in to feel fitter.

The SRTS team have met to discuss the data and discuss some solutions.  This included introducing speed humps on Coldingham Road but was an unpopular choice with the council.  It was suggested that buses could take an alternative route away from the school via the industrial estate to reduce the congestion around Linkim Court and this is to be looked into.  Creating a visitor car park was a solution discussed as this would remove the parked cars from Coldingham Road and make it safer for buses to pick up pupils in the afternoons.  At the moment pupils are running the gauntlet of cars and buses on Coldingham Road;  it is a matter of time before someone is seriously injured.

The SRTS team are looking into purchasing bike sheds to encourage pupils to cycle to school.  The research told the team that the bike sheds had to provide protection from the rain, offer a base to lock the frames onto, to be placed in a visible location and be able to be locked during the day.

Lastly, the SRTS team is to create a display of their work so far to let people see for themselves the work that is going on.  An advertising drive through the Parents' Post and Berwickshire News will encourage parents not to park on the school side of Coldingham Road and at the same time inform the public of the hard work that the SRTS team have been doing lately.