{"id":2615,"date":"2025-04-13T13:14:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T12:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary1a\/?p=2615"},"modified":"2025-04-13T13:14:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T12:14:23","slug":"big-walk-and-wheel-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary1a\/2025\/04\/13\/big-walk-and-wheel-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Walk and Wheel Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Leadership activity this term has been JRSO which stands for Junior Road Safety Officers. We decided to do the Sustrans &#8216;Big Walk and Wheel&#8217; challenge for this. The pupils made posters, went around each of the classes to explain to them what we are doing, composed a letter to send out to parents and spoke out at assembly.<\/p>\n<p>During the two weeks of the challenge the p3 classes collected the numbers of pupils that had walk\/cycled\/scooted to school. We then inputted the data into the website daily. The pupils loved doing this and looked forward to doing it each day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2616\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary1a\/uploads\/sites\/3434\/2025\/04\/13130426\/Screenshot_20250404-111252_Gallery-300x135.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary1a\/uploads\/sites\/3434\/2025\/04\/13130426\/Screenshot_20250404-111252_Gallery-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary1a\/uploads\/sites\/3434\/2025\/04\/13130426\/Screenshot_20250404-111252_Gallery-1024x461.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary1a\/uploads\/sites\/3434\/2025\/04\/13130426\/Screenshot_20250404-111252_Gallery-768x346.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary1a\/uploads\/sites\/3434\/2025\/04\/13130426\/Screenshot_20250404-111252_Gallery.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Shetland Islands Council Climate Team found out about our challenge and asked to come into the school to find out more about what we have been doing and the reasons behind it. They interviewed pupils and videoed us to use as part of their &#8216;Climate Yarns&#8217; project.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the link below to watch the episode featuring our amazing Primary 3 pupils!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AXrHxhvIZHY\">Climate Yarns: Walk And Cycle Challenge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Meta-skills the bairns highlighted that we were covering during this task were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>sense-making<\/li>\n<li>leading<\/li>\n<li>communicating<\/li>\n<li>critical thinking<\/li>\n<li>collaborating<\/li>\n<li>adapting<\/li>\n<li>focusing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A big thank you to the parents for supporting the pupils to walk\/wheel to school each\u00a0 day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Leadership activity this term has been JRSO which stands for Junior Road Safety Officers. We decided to do the Sustrans &#8216;Big Walk and Wheel&#8217; challenge for this. The pupils made posters, went around each of the classes to explain to them what we are doing, composed a letter to send out to parents and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary1a\/2025\/04\/13\/big-walk-and-wheel-challenge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Big Walk and Wheel Challenge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2760,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103,102,100,98],"class_list":["post-2615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-change","tag-jrso","tag-leadership","tag-meta-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2760"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2617,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions\/2617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}