Two primary schools in Glossop took part in an active travel competition with support from Move More Glossop. 

Pupils from Saint Mary's Catholic Voluntary Academy and Whitfield St James' CE (VC) Primary School encouraged their families to either walk, scoot or cycle to school every day for two weeks.

Move More Glossop lead Helen Thornhill attended the school assemblies to discuss the benefits of active travel with the pupils.

Helen said: "We discussed the huge range of benefits including mental and physical health of being outdoors and being active, to the cost of driving a car, especially with the high fuel prices, the air pollution outside the school gates, the environmental factors of burning fossil fuels and safety of cars parking on pavements. The children were fully engaged in the assembly, and we had many ideas on how they could reduce the use of car journeys."

During the fortnight, there was a spell of bad weather but this didn’t deter the pupils as there were some amazing results.

St Mary's pupils walked a staggering 699 journeys over the fortnight, that is equal to 58 per cent of their journeys made actively. The winning house at St Mary’s was St John the Baptist, for making the most active journeys during the fortnight.

High Peak's deputy mayor, Whitfield borough councillor Graham Oakley, attended the school to present the winners at St Mary’s with a voucher to buy equipment for safe active travelling, and certificates and reflectors to each pupil in St John the Baptist house. 

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