Sentences with phrase «walking school bus»

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Get your students moving and active on the way to school with a walking school bus!

A walking school bus is a group of students walking to school supervised by one or more adults

Walking School Bus The Walking Bus was invented by David Engwicht in 1991 to overcome the problems of traffic safety and perceptions of stranger danger.

The Walking School Bus: Combining Safety, Fun, and the Walk to School A guide from the National Center of Safe Routes to School.

«We have received positive feedback from parents whose children participate in the walking school bus program,» Travis reported.

Perhaps your school should be the next stop for the «walking school bus,» — groups of children who are led to and from school by adult volunteers.

The Walking School Bus Information Web Site Find an index of links to many Internet resources about the walking bus program.

With this new understanding, the school had several options; for example, it could approach the district to revisit bus policies, arrange for walking school buses, and / or reach out to local police and community partners to monitor routes to school.

Not exact matches

A high school student walking to a bus stop — outside the crosswalk — was hit by a car and critically injured.

All The Amenities, Walk To Bus, Shopping And Schools.

Twice each year, I take two bus - loads of high school students on retreats at which they worship, walk labyrinths, talk in small groups with adults who care about them, and «hang out» in Christian community.

But the little old ladies used to walk every day while I waited for the school bus.

The sense of being outside of time did not change when they departed two days early from school, when they spent three hours on the bus to Eugene staring out the window with their Walkman headphones on, when they wandered through the swirly paisley carpeted hotel hallways, or went in street clothes to have a walk around Autzen Stadium, where a sex scene in Animal House was filmed.

Only once the LWF secured a big school bus, so that players never had to walk an hour through withering heat to play away games, did the KPL take off.

As I watched my Facebook feed explode with outrage over today's school closing, one thing was crystal clear: a major concern involves the fact that many kids lack winter gear suitable for walking to school or waiting at bus stops in the frigid weather.

Roll it up, cut it in half, and your teen can eat it while waiting for the bus or walking to school.

For example, if they need to be at school by 8:00 AM, you'll need to have them out of bed by 7:00 AM in order to make sure they have ample time to wake up properly, have breakfast, brush their teeth, do any other morning chores, and make it to the bus (or walk to school) on time.

Want advice on how to dress your kids for a cold walk to the school bus?

Whether your children walk, bike, or take the bus, make sure they're familiar with the family rules for getting to school safely.

I stood in the doorway just now as The Buddha, knowing he looked handsome in the picture - day outfit he chose, walked across our front porch toward his waiting school bus.

And of course... coffee for you for the ride to school or the walk to the bus

For many kids today, those walks to school have been replaced by car and bus rides.

If you have to drive your teen to school because he misses the bus or doesn't have time to walk, charge for your time.

We meet the teachers and then watch our children walk onto the bus or into the front door of the school with their new backpacks and shiny shoes.

If your child will be waiting for the school bus alongside a road or walking to school, add reflective elements to your child's backpack.

He lets them walk about a mile to school from his house but somehow them on the bus (which drops them off a block from their friends house that they walk to school with) is bad, bad, bad.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) NHTSA has information on safety recalls and safety tips for children riding in motor vehicles, walking, biking, playing outside, waiting at school bus stops, and more.

Whether you're buying your child's first car seat, deciding whether to let your kids walk to school or take the bus, handing the car keys to your teenager, looking for adaptive equipment for a disabled driver, or you're concerned about your older parent's ability to drive, we're here to answer your questions.

She was waiting for her son to get off the school bus, and my kids had stopped to watch a bulldozer while walking home from gan.

The rich kids get dropped off at school in a Lexus or Mercedes, while the poor kids walk or take the bus.

A mother and daughter, living in the country, mother walks daughter far down the road to catch the school bus??

If you can, visit your new home together and practice the walk to school or the bus stop several times before he has to do it by himself.

After the disappearance and death of Trevyan Rowe, the Rochester City School District offered a remorseful apology for various missteps, including not spotting Rowe walking away from School # 12 immediately after getting off his morning bus.

He said the Island «can't be compared to the other boroughs,» where youngsters are «walking with no sidewalks, no crosswalks, no crossing guards» and there are longer waits for public buses to transport the kids to school.

To support this programme, we also sponsored Quantum Theatre for Science to go into many of these schools to perform a play specifically linked to school travel plans (walking buses, cycle training etc.), promoting road safety messages in a fun and entertaining way.

«Now you have students in Buffalo who are involved in a school site that is not close to their home and if the bus comes, and the bus is overcrowding or the bus is late, students say «well not today» and they walk away.

Five hundred students who live between 1 1/2 and 2 miles from their schools will be able to get bus passes from the district instead of walking, which has been district policy up to now.

For me, it was the green smoothies, and the fact that I tell my kids, «The bus leaves at 7:22,» and then I leave them to walk to school, if they're not ready.

I gather acorns, twigs and leaves on my walks, local farmer's markets bring on the pumpkins, and they keep the «little yellow school bus» company.

I must say that this was one of the worst movies I've ever watched, «Evil Dead» was better than this mound of shit... Gareth Edwards should be banned from directing hence forth, and now I hear he's directing the new Star Wars spin - off... I'm not one to talk down to others but let's be honest, you have to be retarded to like this movie... It made absolutely no sense, the script (the most important piece to any movie) was terrible, the plot was stupid, the acting was horrible and it seemed that the actors who were chosen were acting for a different movie all together... Where was the sense of urgency, I mean there were 300 foot tall behemoths walking through buildings and all you could show us was who was going ride with the little boy on the school bus... Maybe if all the main characters died and they just let Godzilla do his thing from there on out an eyebrow could've been raised but unfortunately, there isn't one good thing to say about this movie... I'm shocked the WB handed over one their biggest names to Legendary Pictures... Let's not forget what they've done with Superman Returns... This is shameful...

Many primary schools offer a «walking bus» service.

In most schools, WatchDOGS start off the day helping with bus duty and greeting students as they come in, and then tour the school's hallways and walk the perimeter of the building outside.

When changing such troubling habits raises objections, it's clear why it took several years to end open campus at lunch, require uniforms, have teachers greet each student with a handshake, make home visits routine, and place administrators beyond the school's gates so students could safely walk to catch city buses.

The situations are all too familiar: A student and teacher do not get along and the student's parents ask school officials to assign the child to a new classroom; a high - school student without the proper prerequisite course is turned away from a class for which the student thinks he or she is qualified; or, the transportation schedule has been modified and the bus driver is unwilling to stop at a corner, thereby saving a child an apparently unnecessary five - block walk.

At one point, when asked about his weight loss, he said he was often walking to school because no one was waking him up in time to get the bus.

To go to and from big, consolidated schools — often at remote sites — children wait for and sit in buses instead of walking or bicycling to a nearby school and playing in the schoolyard before and after the bell.

There will also be «walking buses» where children join an organised walk to school, picking up «passengers» on the way as they learn about looking after the environment.

With a number of schools expected to carry out their Giant Walking Bus activity during Road Safety Week (17 - 23 November), the final number of participating children is expected to exceed 70,000.

That's why parents, schools, and a neighborhood organization there banded together to organize a Walking Bus, a program in which groups of students walk to school under the supervision of adult volunteers.