International Walk to School Day

Did you know that tomorrow is International Walk to School Day where the intention is to get everyone across the world to Walk to School on this one day. Who knows you may enjoy it so much that you then want to carry on indefinitely.

The whole walk to school month is a great way of highlighting the benefits of getting youngsters walking to school. Its a great social time for the children, catching up with their friends on the way to school and it has also been shown to increase concentration through the extra exercise. From an ecological perspective it is a step to reducing the carbon footprint.

So come on, pull on a high viz waistcoat and join this great international day!

Big Lottery Photo Shoot

Gorgeous sunshine today and lots of smiles.... but freeeeezzzzzzing cold for our photo-shoot with children from Kettering Park Junior and Park Infants schools Walking Bus.

Some time ago BrightKidz had funding from the National Lottery's 'Awards for All' scheme to help with one of our 'be safe be seen' educational projects. Today we fixed up a photo shoot with children from one of the schools we worked with at the request of the 'Big lottery' fund for publicity to show the kind of project they support.

It was actually a bit of a re-enactment in the lunch hour, as it's not a great idea to have a professional photo-shoot outside busy school gates as hundreds of other children and parents arrive in the morning! All the children who took part are regular 'walking busers' and really enjoyed being part of this special photo shoot in their different colour high vis jackets... I must say they looked stunning and loved the 'fame'!