Funding crisis cuts School Travel Advisors
Living Streets is alarmed to hear that local authorities are considering cutting school travel advisor posts in Spring 2011, when central funding ends as part of the government’s cost-saving activities
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Although it seems a long way away, Walk to School Month (October) will be with us before you know it, so make sure you're ready to use the new school year to get children excited about walking.
A whole new range of Walk to School resources are now available - view and order them here!
A free, easy way to get children walking to school!
Introducing our brand new Walk to School films - designed to help you promote walking, and also give you more information about how the Walk to School campaign can help you.
The series of films includes a free assembly film which is ideal for getting children excited about walking - click here to have a look!
What age can my child walk to school?
You may be familiar with the story that has been all over the papers recently, of the Schonrocks who let their children cycle to school alone:
Free our streets from the fretting of the nanny state
Parents take cycle row children to school
This has split public opinion and raises the important question: when is it ok for children to travel independently?
See what Living Streets Walk to School campaign has to say below:
And read our case study about walking to school in Suffolk, where Joanne encountered similar resistance to the Schonrocks for making her own decision about whether or not her children should walk unaccompanied.
This Walk to School Week, we teamed up with charity Parentline Plus and wrote a report about the perceived barriers that prevent parents from allowing their children to walk to school.
Tell your story on the new Living Streets forum.
WoW resources for Autumn 2010/11 now on sale
New resources around the 'My walk to school' theme are now on sale for next year. See them and order here...deadline for order is July 1st.
Running the WoW scheme in schools has been shown to significantly increase walking levels - if you want to know more about how WoW can help you, whether it is with generally getting children more active, increasing the sustainability of your school or working towards National Indicator targets, click here!
Living Streets and Parentline Plus look at the real issues of childhood obesity
A report issued for Walk to School Week examined how real threats, such as those children face as the result of inactivity, risk being ignored due to perceived threats about child safety. Click here to read our full news story.
Lesson Plans Online
Walking to school links to the national curriculum in numerous ways as well as Sustainable Schools doorways and Every Child Matters outcomes. We've put together some resources for Key Stage 1 and 2, as well as an interactive activity session to help put ideas into practice...
WoW Badge Winners 2010!!!
The moment you've all been waiting for...click HERE to see the final 11 designs from this year's WoW badge competition...
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