Walk to School themed week - resources for Y5 and 6 now online

This resource aims to educate Year 5 and Year 6 children about the positive effects of walking to school, particularly focusing on:
* Global climate change
* Local pollution and congestion

It aims to make it as easy as possible for teachers to integrate this into the core curriculum through the provision of a fully themed week of teaching covering as much of the timetable. In fact, there is enough material in the resource to last for at least half a term, and teachers will need to select what is appropriate for them. It is hoped that similar resources for other age groups might follow in future years.

If you use these resources we would like to know how it goes. We intend this web based resource to be a work in progress over coming years and welcome feedback and helpful comments as to how the resources can be further developed and improved. The great thing about an online resource is that change can be made very easily. We can post your news on our blog page and examples of your children's work in our gallery. We can add your further ideas on promoting Walk to School or Green Transport Weeks to inspire other teachers.

Don't forget to involve the press in your week. Your local School Travel Officer will be able to help with this.

Thanks to www.shtig.net for permission to use his wonderful cartoon above.