Key Competency

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• Classify the conversations that occur when walking to school into categories, e.g. talking about things you see or hear when walking, talking about television or movies or books, conversations that show caring for others, conversation keeping others safe when walking etc.

• Complete a part of your walk to school in complete silence. When you arrive at school, explore how keeping silent made you feel, and when it was hardest to remain silent.

• Role play walking to school with a group of people. Introduce different challenges to the walk and experiment with different responses and different outcomes, for example, a frightening dog, someone who falls and grazes their knees, finding a bird that has fallen from a nest, crossing a busy intersection. Share ways of maintaining and enhancing the relationships between individuals and within the group of people walking to school.

• Describe a relationship formed with people you walk with.

• List the benefits of walking to school with others in a Walking School Bus group. Refer NZTA: Walking Bus and other ways of getting to school.

• Explain the causes for changes in relationships between people who walk together.