Archived Stories

Archived Stories

Wellington

• Ngaio School get walking
  Inquiry learning in action.
• Cardinal McKeefry students think Feet First
  

  Students at Wellington's Cardinal McKeefy school enjoy walking with the Feet First programme.

• Active Transport Day for Kena Kena School
  A great celebration for Kena Kena School!
• Intrepid journeys to Otongo School
  Seventies children run with the bulls
• Paraparaumu Beach School
  Walking School Bus launch
  
• Wellington Region's New Travel Plan Mascot
  The Wellington Region's Travel Plan Programme has a new mascot named Jack thanks to Carterton School.
• Feet With Flair
  Hundreds of feet of all shades, shapes and sizes took to the streets for Hutt Central School's inaugural Fancy Feet Friday.
• Wairarapa Feet First Short Story Competition
  

  Greater Wellington’s School Travel Plan Coordinator, Rebecca Jamieson is running a short story competition to encourage schools to sign up to Feet First and get walking.

• A school travel plan in action
  Plimmerton school is in the second term of its travel plan and the results are beginning to show.
• Wairarapa Walk or Wheel Wednesdays
  Walk or Wheel Wednesdays are on their way to the Wairarapa!
• NZTA consults Thorndon School
  Getting students to cycle safely.
• Hutt Central walks and wins
  Hutt Central students walk, scoot and cycle to school
• Maoribank School Students Take to Their Feet
  Maoribank School’s students are celebrating putting one foot in front of the other to get where they want to go.
• Walk to School Party -Greenacres
  

  Greenacres School in Tawa Wellington have a Walk to School Party.

• Stories from our whanau
  Hutt Central - worked on interviews about how our Whanau walked to school
• Think Again-Make a Difference
  

  A 3 day symposium looking at the impact of traffic and transport with Year 8 students in Karori

• Walk or Wheel in Wairarapa!
  The inaugural Wairarapa Walk and Wheel Wednesdays kicks off in Term 4!
• Kick starting your Spring term
  

  Wellington schools invited to plan active journeys to school

• Douglas Park School students prepared to hit the street on their feet
  Douglas Park School learn about road crossing safety
• Fernridge Bike to School for Climate Change
  Fernridge School got on their bikes for 350 Day of Action.
• A different way of getting to school
  Catching the ferry from Queen’s Wharf to Days Bay to get to school.
• Greytown School Create a Walking Map
  Which  encourages students to walk using safer routes to school
• Walk and Wheels Game at Douglas Park School
  Douglas Park School try out a new giant road safety board game!
• Jack and Journey planner visit Hutt Central
  Walking to school is interesting every day
• 5 walking school buses
  81 students participating with more wanting to join in each week from Raumati Beach School
• Movin' March in Wellington
  

   Movin' March is a celebration of  learning, join us between the 22-26 March 2010 in Greater Wellington

• Wellington Region kids get moving for Movin’March week!
  From the 22^nd-26^th of March students from 35 schools across the Wellington region celebrated Movin’March.
• Douglas Park school keeps road safety real
  Douglas Park Schoool have transformed part of their playground into a road!
• Transport goes inside the classroom
  

  Two Wairarapa schools took transport inside the classroom!

• Wairarapa walking buses foot it through winter
  It may be mid-winter but several Wairarapa walking school buses are continuing to ‘drive’ through it.