Children's sustainable transport to school postersToday I volunteered at Beaver's Community Primary School in Hounslow. It was a really exhausting day but very rewarding! I worked with small groups of children talking to them about environmentally friendly ways of travelling to school, promoting the benefits of walking/cycling and ways to keep safe. The school is already very active in promoting sustainability and discourages parents to take their children to school by car by organising cycling groups in the morning and WOW - walk on Wednesdays. I helped the children to create posters to put up around their school to encourage more children to use these facilities and explain the benefits. In the afternoon I helped the children calculate the carbon footprint of the school, which was quite horrifying! The school is well above the average when compared to other schools and I explained simple ways to reduce this. I hope to visit the school again in July to create a whole school travel tree, where each child puts a different coloured leave onto the tree in the morning relating to the way they travelled that day. I look foreard to seeing th schools progress.
