The winners of our Walkin’ N Wheelin’ challenge have been announced.
St Margaret’s at Troy Town CE Primary School had the highest number of pupils use active travel during the challenge with a whopping 76.3 per cent, winning the top prize of a £500 Halfords voucher.
It was a close-run race with second-placed Hempstead Junior School winning a £300 Halfords voucher with 75.3 per cent of pupils using active travel and Oasis Academy Skinner Street securing third place and a £200 Halfords voucher with 74 per cent.
Each of the winning schools will also receive a personalised framed certificate from us. All schools who took part in the challenge will receive an e-certificate in recognition of their participation and support of active travel.
The challenge took place in May during National Walk to School Week and encouraged pupils across Medway to travel to and from school in a fun and active way to help create long-term green travel habits.
The schools that took part monitored how many of their pupils travelled to school by walking, using their wheelchair, cycling, scootering or by park and stride (walking the last 10 minutes of the journey).
Throughout the competition, schools across Medway managed to complete a total of 11,235 active travel journeys.
Thank you to everyone who took part
Cllr Simon Curry, Medway Council’s Portfolio Holder for Climate Change and Strategic Regeneration, including Highways, said: “I would like to congratulate all of the winners of this fantastic challenge, but also say a massive thank you to everyone who took part in it. The benefits of using active travel methods to get to and from school are huge for everyone – as well as encouraging our younger residents to be even more active, we see less cars on the road which helps improve both air quality and congestion. Our hope is that pupils continue use active travel to get to and from school whenever possible.”
Our Road Safety team visits schools all year round to teach children valuable lessons about crossing the road, the importance of wearing a seatbelt, pedestrian safety and traffic awareness. So far this academic year, the team has visited 6,742 pupils from 75 schools.
Details of another competition encouraging active travel to school in October to mark International Walk to School month will be announced in due course.