Northumberland school children will be taking to the streets this week and celebrating the benefits of walking for Walk to School Week. Walk to School Week takes place during National Walking Month from May 17 – 21 and is organised by Living Streets, a UK charity for everyday walking. This year’s campaign focuses on the health and environmental benefits of walking to school, with Walk to School Week exploring how being active helps children gain ‘superpowers’ to improve their health, happiness, and local environment. Families are being encouraged not only to walk, but also cycle, scoot, or ‘Park and Stride’ for the entire week to see differences such as fewer cars outside the school gates, and healthy and happy children.
Walk to School Week highlights the many benefits of walking. Monday sees the start of a charity s annual celebration of the power and benefits of walking, with its Walk to School Week.
Living Streets mission is to achieve a better walking environment and inspire people to walk more , and that starts with one street, one school, one step at a time. This year s five day walking challenge takes place from May 17-21, with the theme of Walking Superpowers. The challenge will focus on the walking superpowers that benefit individuals, communities and the planet. Pupils will be challenged to travel sustainably (walk, scoot, cycle or park-and-stride) to school every day for one week
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