BB8Y LENS October 2021 Vol 8: Issue No. Seven Excellence Through Partnership
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Oscar worthy! WOW PR.
AMBASSADORS Our wonderful Abbey Junior PCSOs did a brilliant job last year in setting up and promoting the WOW programme, working with the charity Living Streets. The WOW programme encourages children to ditch the car and walk, cycle or park- and-stride to school. Children learnt about the benefits of walking to school which included benefits to physical and mental health; protecting the environment with less carbon emissions from cars; protecting the air quality around our school and saving our young lungs. Children who walked to school, at least once a week, were awarded a badge at the end of the month. Our school became the most successful school in the West Midlands and both Abbey Juniors and Abbey Infants took the top two places in the WOW Leadership Board. WOW! Due to our great achievements and interest in the programme we were asked by Living Streets, who work in partnership with Transport for West Midlands, to work with a videographer and photographer. They filmed the children talking about why walking and active travel to school was a benefit. The material will be used for promoting the walk to school and safer streets message. The children had a fantastic experience and provided the researchers with a wealth of material (they were very impressed with how much they knew). What an exciting opportunity for our Abbey Junior PCSOs to help and make a difference to their community - it's the very heart of everything that they do. Thanks to Mrs. Flanagan for the story!
Have you got a paragraph of good news to share? Write in under 100 words, attach a picture and your story may be published. All submissions to office@abbey-jun.sandwell.sch.uk or office@abbey-inf.sandwell.sch.uk
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