Walk to School Week
At Living Streets, we've created the greatest national Walk to School celebration where pupils and grown-ups around the UK unite for one week of walking to school.
Each year we develop a new five-day walking challenge aimed at primary schools - the perfect activity to take part in during Walk to School Week.
This year the challenge celebrated our 90th anniversary with over over 300,000 pupils taking part.
SAVE THE DATE!
Walk to School Week 2020
18 - 22 May
Why we love the Walk to School
Join the fun any week of the year
Our Five-day Walking Challenge is the perfect activity to run during Walk to School Week. However, all our classroom packs are undated, so you can order now and start your challenge any week that suits your school.
The classrooms packs and activities are built to make the pupils feel empowered to change their walking environment for the better: they experience first hand the importance of walking to school.
This year is Living Streets' 90th anniversary, and we picked a theme that is very close to our heart and cause. Pupils are taken on a special walking journey re-tracing the steps of our greatest achievements over the course of the last 90 years.
The best bits from social media
Celebrating #WalktoSchoolWeek by joining @livingstreets and families at Sebright Primary School on the walk to school - and showing transport minister @Jesse_Norman why our pioneering school streets are so important
— Hackney Council (@hackneycouncil) May 21, 2019
🚶🏻♂️🚶🏾♀️🚶🏻♀️🚶🏽♂️🚶🏼♀️ #hackneywalks 🚶🏻♂️🚶🏾♀️🚶🏻♀️🚶🏽♂️🚶🏼♀️ pic.twitter.com/9W9Pep3s1l
A pleasure to work with the staff at @transport_wales this past week, plenty of ideas from everyone on how to build more walking into their every day this #NationalWalkingMonth Thanks to Matt and Antony for the invitation! pic.twitter.com/IEiyZWv2aU
— Living Streets Cymru (@LStreetsCymru) May 20, 2019
Congratulations to everyone taking part in @livingstreets #HappyShoesday today and well done to everyone at Hurst Park for their fantastic effort! pic.twitter.com/WXxIrrt88s
— Hurst Park School (@HurstParkSchool) May 21, 2019
Amazing work by Middle Street Primary School to stop engine idling! #airpollution #airquality https://t.co/t4HIP2trP7
— Breathe in Brighton (@BreatheBrighton) May 24, 2019
Fantastic pupil protest asking people to #walktoschool or Park & Stride @liverpoolcollege this morning! They made up and sang their own song too - Come on Walk to School! Well done teachers, children and parents @livingstreets @lpoolcouncil pic.twitter.com/NE6bcl93rD
— Jane Rickwood (@JDoM75) May 23, 2019
If everyone walked or cycled to school, it could take 254,000 cars off London’s roads each day. Thank you to @LivingStreets for raising awareness of how fun it can be to get active on the way to school. Why not give it a try? 🚶♀️🚶♂️https://t.co/EgUmW0O7ni
— Transport for London (@TfL) May 22, 2019
Safer streets and cleaner air leads to healthier children – that's why we’re supporting @livingstreets’ #WalktoSchoolWeek https://t.co/zVzDTDzymL pic.twitter.com/kVpXD4ZA6M
— Sport England (@Sport_England) May 21, 2019
More children walking to school = fewer cars on our roads.
— Kathryn Shaw (@KathiElizabeth) May 19, 2019
Fewer cars = improved road safety and cleaner air.
Join @livingstreets' #WalkToSchoolWeek and be part of the #cleanair solution. #AirPollutionhttps://t.co/5X5pPPQ7ed
Strider lending a hand at the @SustransScot public engagement event @PerthandKinross Tulloch Primary School #walktoschoolweek pic.twitter.com/tepHU4gVeu
— Living Streets Scot (@LStreetsScot) May 23, 2019
Other ways you can get involved
SCHOOL STREETS SCHEMES - make the roads around your local school car-free
Thanks to our 2019 Walk to School Week sponsors
Walk To School Week is something we are very happy to get involved with and which the children have really enjoyed. It gives them the opportunity to do some exercise each and every day. As well as this, traffic is really heavy during term times so we will do anything to help alleviate the issue."