If you would like your children to walk to school, chances are other families in your neighbourhood would too.

Starting a Walk Together Group is a safe and flexible way to make it happen.

A Walk Together Group is a group of families in a neighbourhood who take turns to walk with children to and/or from school or other destinations. As children get older, they can walk together without adults.

Walk Together Groups can be big or small, formal or informal, frequent or infrequent. They can be travel the entire distance, or part-way.

Starting a Walk Together Group

A great guide to starting a Walk Together Group in your neighbourhood.

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Hannah's Video

Hannah wants to let her children walk to school, but worries about their safety. Watch her comical attempt to make them safe, when all they want to do is walk.

Learning and physical activity

As you can see on the infgraphic below, research shows a clear connection between physical actvity and perfroming better at school.

CDC Burn to Learn