Travelling actively to and from school

Walking or cycling from home to school isn’t always an easy option. But there are clear benefits to children’s health as well as helping to keep traffic away from the school gate. Here are some solutions and ideas that may help you overcome some of the perceived barriers.

Here are some solutions and ideas that may help you to overcome some of the barriers we know children and parents experience.

For cycling safety tips check out our infographic by clicking here.

For the Family Strava challenges – the free app that can be downloaded on your phone here – the challenge can be to do your route to school or home/car faster or go further or track your route together as a family

If you want to share the infographics as PDFs and print them off click here.

For more ideas and ways to be active check the following news articles:

#GetOutThere article which has links to the Ruette Tranquille app

Walk this way article which includes an interactive map for short walks

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