posted by Lesley Eaton, School Travel Administrator, Schools and Learning

Welcome to the BIG Walk to School for May.

• It’s National Walk to School Week 16-20 May (local dates may vary). We’ll be out and about throughout Scotland during the week with Strider to celebrate. If you are planning your own special event please let us know and we’ll help to publicise it

• Sign up now for the Scotland Walk of Fame (starts 9^th May). Prizes, glory and the chance to see your school name on the daily walk of fame.

To take part simply email scotland@livingstreets.org.uk with the subject WoF and your school name and keep logging your active journeys throughout May

Highlights include:

• a chance to take part in the award nominated Scotland Walk of Fame – Please encourage your schools to register and email ‘WoF’ and name of school to scotland@livingstreets.org.uk
• events happening across Scotland later this month to celebrate Walk to School Week (16-20 May).  Drop me a line if you’ve got something happening locally that you’d like us to help publicise
• …and have you used April’s badge to unlock the fabulous Toucan animation on our Walk to School app yet?   App Store or Google Play.

If you’re setting up for the WoW 16/17 programme with Smarter Choices in your area please get in touch so that we can plan in our support and resources to take this forward for you.

Chris Thompson
Schools and Projects Coordinator
chris.thompson@livingstreets.org.uk
T. 0131 243 2648  M. 07702 717541
Living Streets Scotland,
5 Rose Street,
Edinburgh
EH2 2PR
T.0131 243 2645   www.livingstreets.org.uk/scotland @LStreetsScot

posted by Lesley Eaton, School Travel Administrator, Schools and Learning

Thousands of children across the UK set off from their school gates in June 2015, celebrating the wonders of walking by taking part in Brake’s Giant Walk.

This annual event is a fantastic way for children to put their best feet forwards for road safety: to say “yes!” to the health and planet-saving benefits of walking, and “no!” to fast driving that threatens children’s safety. The UK has a poor record for protecting children on foot and bike compared to many European neighbours. Half our children are driven to school, increasing pollution, danger and damaging health.

To find out more about this event please click on the link below:

http://www.brake.org.uk/events-training/community-events-training/giant-walk-for-schools

posted by Jacqueline McGuire, Principal Teacher ASN (Visual Impairment), Children and Young People

Family Day

On Saturday the Visual Impairment Team held a Guide Dogs Experience Day for children with a visual impairment and their families. This took place at the Guide Dogs Centre in Forfar. Activities included dog grooming, dog walking and dog interaction. Thirty parents and children attended from across Angus, new friends were made and fun was had by all!

posted by Jacqueline Smith, Head Teacher, Timmergreens Primary School

The staff, pupils and parents of Timmergreens Primary School came together to complete a challenge of seeing how many miles we could cover in one day. As it was the London Marathon weekend we wanted to see how many marathons we could complete and as some of the children have been learning about space, whether we could reach Tim Peake on the International Space Station.

We used our daily mile route and each class had to gather as many miles as they could, parents and the local community were invited to add to our classes totals by coming along and walking, running a mile as well. Our P7’s were the Stewards for the event and timed parents and pupils who wanted to compete for the fastest mile awards.

Having taken part in the daily mile for 9 months, the parents and school community were astounded at the levels of fitness our pupils have grown and their enthusiasm when participating. Our final total was 293 parent/community miles and a magnificent whole school total of 1,206.5 – this is the equivalent of 46 marathons and many times to the Space Centre! What a target for us to beat next year!

posted by Gillian Roy, Cook in Charge, Arbroath High School

Tayside Contracts and kitchen staff at Arbroath High School ran a competition entitled “Around the World”. Pupils were treated to Italian, Mexican, Indian, Chinese and good old British food. Those receiving a meal completed a competition entry slip. The two lucky winners, picked at random, were Zoe Rennie (S1 ) and Nicola Fenty (S1 ) who won an IPad Mini each.

Pictured are Mrs Gillian Roy, Cook in Charge, Nicola and Zoe with their prizes and Mr Bruce Pandrich, Head Teacher.