Walk to School Week starts today!

Walk to School Week 2012 will take place between 21-25 May.

The event is part of the Great British Walking Challenge, taking place throughout May – when thousands of people will be walking to school, work, or around their neighbourhoods.

Walk to School Week is a great opportunity for parents to spend more time with the kids and take in more exercise. There are lots of fun activities happening throughout the week, including a competition giving one class of junior school children the chance to each win a pair of Start-rite shoes. You can find out more about the competition by following this link. http://www.livingstreets.org.uk/start-rite

Last year over 1 million children in over 4000 schools ditched the school run as part of Walk to School Week. This year there is a fantastic range of resources to schools run fun events and activities to raise awareness about walking to school. Use the ‘resources’ tab from Living Streets website to download lesson plans, games, presentations and more!

You will be surprised how quickly it takes to walk to school and you might even decide to do it more often over the Summer!

Enjoy the sunshine and have a pleasant walk! 🙂