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What is 'Walk to School'?

The Walk to School Campaign is run by the charity Living Streets and asks parents, pupils and teachers to think about their journey to and from school and the many benefits of making it on foot.

About 50% of children don't walk to school regularly and more and more pupils are being driven to school in a car. This trend is contributing to reduced physical activity and increased childhood obesity, urban congestion and air pollution.

What do we do


Each year, we organise two nationally recognised events:
International Walk to School Month (October 2008) and national Walk to School Week (2009).

We want people to see walking to school as an everyday activity, so we also run the WoW (Walk Once a Week) scheme which rewards pupils with a collectible enamel badge if they walk to school regularly.

Walk to School works!


The Walk to School Campaign has the support of over 65% of local authorities and regularly reaches more than two million pupils and their carers.

Promotion of the ‘Walk to School' campaign does attract media attention not just locally, but nationally, and so brings the message to a much wider audience.

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LATEST NEWS

WoW Walking Zone Pack now available to order
Eco Local and TfL have teamed up to produce a WoW Walking Zone Teachers Pack to help schools create a defined area around the school inside which everybody has to walk in order to qualify for their WoW badge.

Winners of the 2008 WoW design competition celebrate
Yesterday (26 June 2008) the 11 winners of the WoW (Walk on Wednesday) badge design competition picked up their awards at St Paul's Cathedral, where a fun day out was had by all!

Strider visits St Marnock's Primary School in Glasgow
I went to visit St Marnock's Primary School where pupils in class P6a have been taking part in a pilot project of the WoW scheme since September 2007.

Walk to School Poetry Competition Winners
Smallthorne Primary School recently held a poetry competition to celebrate walking to school. Here are the winners!

Zahra Adams Award 2008 – winner announced
The 2008 Zahra Adams Award has been awarded to South Harringay Infants and Nursery School, N4.