Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel - Prize draw reminder

If you took part in the Sustrans Big Walk and Walk Wheel, don't forget to enter the Road Safety Team Prize Draw - details below.

This year's new theme was Change your journey, change your world, focusing on climate change and the actions pupils can take to reduce pollution and improve air quality.

In a YouGov survey in 2021 half (49%) of UK school pupils said they were worried about air pollution near their school, while 57% of pupils described the environment around their school as having too many cars.

This event encourages more families to travel to and from school actively. In turn this will improve congestion and air quality around schools and promoting healthier lifestyles by building physical activity into children's daily routine which helps them to arrive to school more relaxed and alert, and is great for their mental wellbeing too.

Prizes

The Road Safety Team are giving away 3 Reflector Shop active travel starter packs from Brightkidz, in a prize draw that will be held the week commencing 10 April 2023.

All you have to do to enter is:

Sign up and then tell us how you have taken part in the Big Walk and Wheel challenge by completing our Active Travel Survey.

Once you have completed the form, individual schools will be added to a prize draw and the 3 winners will be contacted week commencing 10 April 2023.

Participating in the Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel also contributes towards gaining Modeshift Stars accreditation. All Norfolk schools can register for free at www.modeshiftstars.org.

Resources

Sustrans resources and lesson plans are available to help schools, parents and children understand the benefits of travelling more actively, for example; actions to make change, clean air route mapping, street trumps and more. View and download the free school resources.

To support schools with active travel outcomes and the Big Walk and Wheel Norfolk County Council Road Safety Team offers the following FREE resources and learning opportunities:

• Bikeability Training - to help primary school pupils gain practical cycling skills - please visit NCC Road Safety - Bikeability for more information.
• Safe School Run Pledge - a recently developed initiative to support your school in creating a safer school environment during the school run, promoting active travel, increase understanding and highlight the importance of safe parking outside the school - please visit NCC Road Safety - Safe school run pledge for more information.
• Step On It - online pedestrian training to help pupils to understand and develop behaviours, to creating safe and confident pedestrians, to give the students the skills needed to become independent travellers - please visit NCC Road Safety - Step on it
• Ride On It - online cycle training to help pupils to understand and encourage safe behaviours as a road user and to enjoy active travel - please visit NCC Road Safety - Ride on it
• Active Travel Audit - to gather information which will help you to think about active travel and road safety in your school and how you would like it to progress in the future - please visit NCC Road Safety - Active travel audit