Walk To School Week 09 Highlights

Twalking in Brighton!

There have been plenty of great ideas to raise the profile of Walk To School Week. Read about some of them here, and, if you did anything special, don't forget to send us an email and let us know!

One great use of the 'Walk'n'Talk' theme was run by the Midlothian Council in Scotland.

Gillian Bathgate, the School Travel Plan Co-ordinator said:

'We thought we'd get our schools walking and talking to each other, following the Walk'n'Talk theme, by passing on a Chinese Whisper walking between schools. The whisper had a Walk To School message. '

The original message was sent out from Cornbank as "Walking to school isn't a rule, but don't be a fool, keep the planet cool!"

25 schools and 5 days later it finished at Loanhead as - "Walk to school, don't be a fool, be cool!", which was pretty good!

The message travelled by foot approximately 14 miles (22.5km)!
Brighton and Hove used ‘Walk’n’Talk’ to generate some story-telling creativity among children in the area.

Children talked to their parents/carers about the walk to school and then wrote stories around what they had discussed. Artists then visited the three participating schools and children took part in storytelling workshops and recorded their stories on digital recorders. Snippets of the stories were broadcast on Juice FM during the week along with live interviews with some of the children.

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London also had plenty going on in conjunction with Kiss 100.
Competitions included the opportunity for one school in each borough to be visited by someone from Kiss’s creative team so that children could be recorded talking about their walk to school, to be collated together on a podcast.

Another opportunity allowed the school with highest percentage of attendants walking to school to win a giveaway and question & answer session from the breakfast team on Kiss 100.

Three young people from the winning school then enjoyed a trip to Kiss 100 to join the Breakfast Show and join the production of the podcast.

Published Friday 29 May 2009