​We’ve joined the everyday walking charity, Living Streets’ WOW, year-round walk to school challenge. If your child walks, scoots or cycles to school at least once or twice a week they’ll be rewarded with a collectible badge at the end of the month.
This year’s theme - Walk the Americas – will teach pupils about the wonderful landscapes, animals, culture and history of the Americas.
Living Streets has also created the WOW Walk To School app which you can use to bring the badge to life with fun games and virtual reality. The app can be downloaded from Play Store, Amazon and iTunes.
​With WOW we aim to lower congestion outside the school gates, improving road safety for our pupils, and increase activity levels. If you live too far away from school to walk, you can Park and Stride and this still counts towards a WOW badge. If you’d like any more information about WOW visit www.livingstreets.org.uk/wow.
Best wishes from The WOW Team.

​July badge
July’s badge ends in Argentina, as the ‘’Walk the America’s’ year of WOW comes to a close. The badge represents the music and dance of South America. Designed by Anthi from Holy Cross Primary School in North Lanarkshire.
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LIVING STREETS is the UK charity that promotes everyday walking to school.
St Martin de Porres entered their program in 2015-2016.

LIVING STREETS wants to create a walking nation, free from congested roads and pollution, reducing the risk of preventable illness and social isolation and making walking the natural choice. They believe that a walking nation means progress for everyone.
Their ambition is to get people of all generations to enjoy the benefits that this simple act brings and to ensure all our streets are fit for walking.
Progress starts here: one street, one school, one step at a time. Find out more about the walking nation.
​This years’ Walk to School’ badge competition was based on seasons. Children have been given an entry form if they wished to enter the competition. The design had to depict one of the four seasons, and every entry made in school received a prize.
​www.livingstreets.org.uk/what-you-can-do/badge-design-competition-2018
A winner has been selected for each season:
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Spring
Amina
​Year 3 ​
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​Summer
Caitlin
​Year 5 
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Autumn
Finlay
​Year 2 ​
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Winter
Oskar
​Year 1
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Last school year 2016-2017, our school entered their annual badge design competition for WOW, the year-round walk to school challenge.
We put our pupils’ imagination to work to be in with a chance of their designs being made into WOW badges for this year. Winners received free WOW resources for their school for a whole year.
That year we were on the hunt for entries on the theme of Walk the Americas.
From the dramatic landscapes of Canadian national parks, through Brazilian rainforests teeming with life, down to the icy glaciers in Southern Argentina - the Americas have lots on offer.
Note that the badges are made from recycled yoghurt-pot material.
On Tuesday 14th March 2017, the three best designs were chosen to enter the competition and their authors were rewarded during the afternoon assembly with a chocolate Easter egg. Congratulations to Malaika and Is'Haaq, Year 6 and to Halima, Year 5.
We are delighted to announce that Malaika's design has been chosen among last year's over 120,000 entries. Her design appeared on November 2017's badge and she received free WOW resources for our school for a whole year.
We are all taking part in the Walk to School program and are working towards earning badges each month if we walk to school. We recently took part in a competition to design a new badge and our 3 winners have had their entries submitted to the project organisers for final judging.