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State schools join forces to get pupils to walk to school
PUPILS at state schools throughout Beaconsfield are being encouraged to ask their parents to allow them to walk to school instead of taking them by car for a week next month.
Walk to School Week happens every year but this time The Beaconsfield School and Beaconsfield High School are working with the town's primary schools to make a much bigger deal of the event.
Pupils from the high schools and from Holtspur Primary, Butlers Court Primary, and St Mary and All Saints Primary are challenging students to use Walk to School Week on May 18 to 22 to take photographs and enter them in a competition.
The best ones will be displayed at the Beaconsfield PTFA Art Fair to be held at The Beaconsfield School on May 16 where the final judging will take place and the overall winner will be published in The Advertiser.
Deputy head of Beaconsfield High School, Owain Johns, said: "This is a great idea, students from all the schools will be competing together, they will all have an opportunity to show us how they see their community through the eye of the camera."
Photographs will be judged on content relevant to themes set around the experience of the school journey, with emphasis on sustainable travel.
Rules on the competition and how to enter are available from the schools involved; all entries must be submitted by 11th May.
The project is being supported by the Neighbourhood Action Group, Town Council, Sunflower Framing of Beaconsfield, Trewimage of Holtspur and South Bucks District Council who are sponsoring prizes for the winners.
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