Improved fitness through daily exercise.Hopefully, this habit stays with them for the rest of their lives! Children learn good road sense and it encourages children to start the “walking” habit.The children walk along a set route picking up ‘passengers’ at planned ‘bus stops’ along the. Each walking bus has an adult ‘driver’ at the front and an adult ‘conductor’ at the rear. It provides a safe and environmentally friendly way for children to travel to school. The Walking Bus scheme is a safe and healthy way for groups of children to walk to and from school.Implementing a walking school bus can be both! Changing behaviors of children and parents requires creative solutions that are safe and fun. At the same time, more children are at risk of obesity than ever before. Studies show that fewer children are walking and biking to school. Providing adult supervision may help reduce those worries for families who live within walking distance of school. Safety concerns are often the primary reason that parents are reluctant to allow their children to walk to school. The flexibility of the walking school bus makes it appealing to communities of all sizes with varying needs. They then follow a set route to school, collecting pupils at “bus stops” along the way. Typically, a Walking School Bus is comprised of two volunteer parents, one to “drive” and one to “conduct” a group of school children. It's all about families taking turns walking their children to school, with a structured route and meeting points, a timetable and a regularly rotated schedule of volunteers. It’s very simple and that’s part of its beauty. A Walking School Bus is a group of children walking to school with adult supervision.
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