See our other free stuff.
Join WoW!
WoW (Walk Once a Week) is our most popular scheme - children who walk at least once a week are rewarded with a highly collectable monthly pin badge. Find out how your school can join WoW.
Visit Our Shop
We offer great value school resources including wallcharts, stickers, badges, t-shirts 
and activities. Every purchase supports the Walk to School campaign!
Lesson Plans
We have produced a huge array of curriculum-linked resources to help you embed walking to school and WoW (Walk once a Week) into your learning:
- Lesson plans for key stage 1 and 2
- Activities for children of all ages linked to Walk to School and WoW
- Assemblies to get children excited about walking to school and WoW
- WoW resources to help you elect and support WoW pupil monitors
- WoW Walking Zones pack with more information about how to set up a zone and the benefits it can bring
View all our resources and lesson plans below, or use the filter to refine your search.
Download Resources
-
Art and Design Lesson Idea 2011
A great way of getting involved in Walk to School is to make your own Strider mask or Strider puppet. This page gives you some ideas of how to do it.
Download -
Assembly pack
Want to run as assembly on walking to school? Use this pack, complete with facilitator’s guide and PowerPoint slides to highlight the benefits and how is easy it is to get involved.
Download -
Christmas Colouring Competition
Use this template to encourage your pupils to create their own festive Strider!
Download -
Geography_History Lesson Plan 2011
A sheet full of ideas on how to use walking to school to help children learn more about their local area and improve their road awareness.
Download -
Literacy Lesson Plan 2011
Walking can be used as a starting point to develop both your pupils’ creative and descriptive vocabulary, as well as encouraging them to think about different points of view. Take a look here, to see how.
Download -
Music Lesson Ideas 2011
Need ideas on how the theme of walking can be linked into the music curriculum? Look no further - creating soundscapes and writing your own walking songs are just two of the ideas on this useful sheet.
Download -
Numeracy Lesson 2011
Make maths come alive - this sheet is full of mathematical tasks that link into the local environment as well as real life investigations and data collection.
Download -
PE Lesson Plan 2011
Walking can be fun and this sheet shows you how to get children walking both on their way to school and in their PE lessons.
Download -
Recycling Lesson KS1
This activity can be completed by children in both Key Stage 1 and 2. Children look at the importance of reducing, reusing and recycling materials.
Download -
Recycling Lesson KS1 - resource sheet
Sorting activity cards for use with Recycling Lesson KS1
Download -
Recycling Lesson KS2
This activity is for children in Key Stage 2 and looks at the processes involved in recycling a yoghurt pot.
Download -
-
Walk The World (Geography/Maths) 2011
Instructions on how to use “The Walk the World Spreadsheet”. See separate download.
Download -
Walk The World Spreadsheet
Want to know the distance from your school to famous land marks and cities around the world? This spreadsheet does it all for you. A great resource that can be used in maths or geography based lessons. Download with "Walk The World (Geography/Maths) 2011" instruction sheet.
Download -
Walk to School Week 2011 - How to Cross the Road (Role Play)
A physical lesson that gets children thinking about how to cross the road safely. It also incorporates an element of role play.
Download -
Walk to School Week 2011 Lesson Plan - Design a Superhero / Mascot
Encourage children to design their own superhero and mascot that will promote road safety.
Download -
Walk to School Week 2011 Lesson Plan - Designing a Road Safety Game
Games are a great way of getting an important message across and this plan enables children to make their own road safety game.
Download -
Walk to School Week 2011 Lesson Plan - How To Cross The Road (Comic Strip)
In this lesson, children create their own comic strip that explains how to cross the road safely. They can then be given to younger children given them a sense of purpose.
Download -
Walk to School Week 2011 Lesson Plan - Writing Instructions
Instruction writing is an important part of the literacy curriculum, so let your children have a go at writing their own instructions on how to cross the road safely.
Download -
WoW Activity Pack for KS2
A range of activities that children can do on their own including word searches, spot the difference etc.
Download -
WoW Assembly Pack
A range of assemblies all linked to the importance and benefits of walking, as well as some lesson plans for Key Stage 2.
Download -
-
WoW Assembly Pack: I’m Healthy Quiz
A Power Point of the “I am Healthy quiz” that can be used with the “WoW- I’m healthy” assembly in the WoW Assembly Pack.
Download -
WoW Assembly Pack: WoW and Climate Change
A Power Point that explains climate change and can be used with the “WoW and Climate Change” assembly found in the WoW Assembly Pack.
Download -
WoW Monitor Election Lesson Plan
Would you like your pupils to run WoW? Then use this lesson plan to help elect the perfect WoW Monitors.
Download -
WoW Monitor Pupil Guide
Give this guide to your WoW Monitors to help them remember their responsibilities!
Download -
WoW walking zones
A Walking Zone sets a clearly defined area around the school inside which everybody has to walk in order to qualify for their WoW badge.
The aim of this pack is to involve children in developing a WoW Walking Zone around their school. In doing so they are able to explore issues around congestion, pollution, climate change and healthy living. It gives children the opportunity to examine how they are able to influence their environment, both individually and as a group. walkable distances.
The pack is primarily aimed at KS2 and has been designed to link in with QCA schemes of work for Geography (Unit 6 – Investigating our Local Area and Unit 8 – Improving the Environment). It also links with Literacy (Creating and Shaping Texts), Numeracy (Measurement) and PSHE (How do Rules and Laws Affect Me?). The 5 lessons and resources in this pack are designed to be flexible and adaptable. It can be taught over one half-term, or over a designated week. It can be used with Y3 or Y4 or could be extended for older children.
Download