Another aspect of school life we are enhancing is how we travel to school.
There has been tremendous effort at walking to school rather that driving. This feeds into our active school efforts, but also to our Green school initiatives.
This interestingly has strong links also with the UN Sustainable Development Goals: ‘Good Health and well-being’, ‘Climate Action’ and ‘Sustainable Cities and Communities’.
This is such a healthy way to start the day.
Well done to all that are walking to school, including the parents!
We are delighted that we can do our own small bit to contribute to these goals which are implemented on a worldwide scale! Lets keep up the great work for as long as is possible and get those steps in early each morning!
It also helps prevent a build up of traffic at the school gates which is helping to make arrival and departure from school safer and more efficient.
The Great Travel Challenge is a Green School’s initiative run in collaboration with Fingal.
This two week challenge takes place on the on the weeks beginning 14th of February
and 28th of February.
Those who walk every day are rewarded with a small prize.
This has been a huge success with 96%
from 3rd to 6th walking to school and 94%
of those from Juniors to 2nd walking to school.
This is wonderful for the environment and it also links in with our active school goals.
The children are getting in physical activity before
the school day begins. Thanks also to the many parents
that enabled such high participation by accompanying
the younger children on their walk to school each morning.
Well done everyone!
