As part of the Step Up group for our college we would like to see the streets safer and cleaner to walk to and from school. Also we would like to improve the health and fitness of the school, as walking to school improves a person's enthusiasm and overall ability to learn

The Step Up team at Carmel RC College

Today was our introduction to the Step Up programme. We were introduced to it by Gary and Sarah [Darlington Youth Service], and Sam [Living Streets], who will help us run the Step Up campaign in our school.

We identified positive and negative issues in our area, walking to and from school. We were handed promotion posters and postcards to give out to our friends.

[NB this is the 'win an ipod comp'. See the home page for details of how to enter

Team working on map of Darlo

We marked our houses on the map,

...and talked about the issues on our walking routes into school

You'll just have to wait until we write about what we did today...

attractive Step Up T-shirts..

sixth formers walking past one of our 'Win an Ipod' posters. Have you entered yet?

at our last meeting we decided:

to give early lunch vouchers to the class that walks to school mostto give a £15 HMV voucher to one person from the winning classTo give a prize to one of the people who fills in the Step Up surveyTo link the Step Up website to the school websiteTo update their web page regularly

...to be continued...

Visit the website of Carmel RC College at http://www.carmel.org.uk/