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Sustainable Travel Workshops for Year 6
Remember to book your Sustainable Travel Workshop for Year 6. The workshops include an educational talk and interactives, quizzes, puzzles and games on how to use sustainable transport, journey planning, timetable reading and the safety and environmental issues surrounding sustainable transport.
For more information or to book your workshop please fill out the online form or contact the Sustainable Travel Team on travelwiseschools@centro.org.uk or call 0121 214 7409.
Walsall school girl wins design competition for eco-friendly website
A ten year old Walsall school girl has won a regional competition to design a cartoon strip for the award winning eco-friendly travel website www.letzgogreen.org.
Catherine Radburn, a year 5 at St Michael's C of E Primary School, was among hundreds of youngsters to create a public transport story for the fun and interactive congestion busting website.
Catherine with her winning comic book design
Transport Authority Centro selected her creative and engaging design out of over 800 entries from across the West Midlands and has turned it into an animated story board for the website.
The comic strip has now been given pride of place on the letzgogreen.org home page.
Centro launched the comic strip competition in March to encourage Key stage 2 students across the region to use their creative and literacy skills to come up with a story that shows the benefits of using green and healthy travel to their fellow pupils.
Catherine was presented with her certificate, a poster of her cartoon characters and £20 of high street vouchers at the school's celebration assembly by Helen Osborn, Sustainable Travel Officer at Centro.
To view the cartoon go to the competion winning comic page.
Website lands Centro top award
A revolutionary website set up by transport authority Centro to help school children fight congestion and climate change has landed 2 coveted awards.
Letzgogreen was voted Best Website or Microsite at the prestigious Chartered Institute of Public Relations PRide Awards during a glitzy ceremony at Birmingham International Convention Centre, as well as Curriculum Initiative of the year at the 2009 Modeshift awards in Glasgow.
Judges gave the site the top awards after being impressed by the way it teaches children in Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton why it's good to use public transport, walk or cycle, instead of travelling by car. Judges also praised it for raising at an early age issues such as climate change, congestion and health.
