Bus Route Change Parent Notification
A letter to parents announcing changes to their child's bus route including new stop location, adjusted times, route consolidation, or new route assignment with map link.
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Greenwood International School BUS ROUTE CHANGE NOTIFICATION Dear James Thompson, We are writing to inform you of a change to Emma Thompson's bus route. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHANGE DETAILS Type of Change: Stop relocation Effective Date: 2026-09-01 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ STOP CHANGE Previous Stop: 15 Oak Avenue New Stop: 42 Maple Street Walking Distance from Previous Stop: 120 meters ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TIME CHANGE Previous Pickup Time: 07:30 New Pickup Time: 07:45 Please ensure Emma Thompson arrives at the new stop at least 5 minutes before the scheduled pickup time. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT YOU NEED TO DO 1. Note the new stop location and pickup time 2. Update your family's morning routine accordingly 3. Show Emma Thompson the new stop location before the change takes effect 4. If you have any concerns, contact us before 2026-09-01 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONTACT US Transport Coordinator: Transport Office Phone: +44 1234 567891 We understand that route changes can be disruptive and we appreciate your flexibility. This change has been made to improve the efficiency and reliability of our transport service. Yours sincerely, Transport Office Greenwood International School
About This Template
Notifies families of a route, stop or time change with before-and-after details and the effective date, so no pupil is waiting at an old stop.
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Topics this template covers: route change · bus notification · transport update · route change letter
How to Use This Template
Enter Change Type (stop relocation, time change, route merge) and show Old Stop Address against New Stop Address so families see exactly what moved. Complete Old Pickup Time and New Pickup Time, Effective Date, and Walking Distance (meters) when a stop shifts.
Write What You Need To Do as a numbered list — where to wait from Monday, what time, who to call — and fill Empathy Statement with a genuine acknowledgement of the inconvenience. Add Transport Contact Name and Transport Contact Phone, send at least five school days before the Effective Date, and follow up with a reminder the day before.
When to Use This Template
Rolling out a new policy
Draft the expectations and consequences, set an effective date, and send the same formatted document to staff and parents so nobody is working from an older version.
Annual policy review
Pull the last version, update the review date and any changed wording, and reissue with a visible revision trail.
Collecting staff acknowledgment
Issue the policy with a signature or acknowledgment section so every member of staff confirms they have read and understood the current version before the effective date.
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