We are proud to announce that Gulf Harbour School has became a TravelWise School. Thank you to the parents who came and watched our launch on the 4th of November.
From Auckland Transport we had Matthew Rednall, (Manager Community Transport), Jacki Dawson, (North Team Leader, Community Transport) and Bridget Farmiloe (our TravelWise community Transport Coordinator).
We also had Bernie Watt our school Police Education Officer and Maxx the Pukeko.
Gaylene Chambers our Walking School Bus Co-ordination gave a delightful talk about the walking school bus and some things that have worked well, such as bring a friend week.
After a visit from Maxx the Pukeko we ended with an appropriate jump jam song "We like to move it, move it!"
As a TraveWise school this means we are commited to working with Auckland Transport to make travel to school safe and sustainable. We will try and get as many people as possible using other modes if transport than the car but we understand that we will still have some cars around our school so we want to make sure it is as safe as possible. We will help our students learn about road safety and we will do lots of fun activities throughout the year to promote safe behaviour and activities such as walking and cycling. We want to make Travelwise part of our school culture and hope that students and parents and the organisations that support Travelwise can all work together.
A big thanks to all those involved.
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