Prize-winning pupils from East Dunbartonshire really got stuck into a competition to raise awareness about active travel.
The Healthy Habits School Sticker Competition saw talented primary pupils take strides to spread the word about walking, cycling and scooting to school.
Around 150 wheely good entries were received from two of the Council’s Traffic-Free primary schools – Lennoxtown and Wester Cleddens.
With 30 entries making the short-list competition was stiff, but the 12 winners' messages and designs caught the imagination of Provost Gillian Renwick who judged them.
To commend their winning entries, the pupils whose drawings were chosen were presented with an Active Travel goodie bag by the Provost.
Provost Renwick, said, “This competition has helped the children focus on what is an important subject.
“We received around 150 entries, and this made choosing a winner an extremely difficult task.
We have some wonderfully creative and talented young people in our schools, and I was amazed at the standard
She added, "However, the 12 winning designs just had that extra eye-catching appeal and stuck with me. I’d like to congratulate all the winners; they did a brilliant job.
“I’d like to thank every pupil who took part in the competition and also to all the teachers who worked with the children to produce their entries.”
The winning designs will now feature on 6,000 stickers that will be distributed across East Dunbartonshire to help raise awareness of the Healthy Habits project, which aims to encourage local people to use active travel as part of their everyday journeys.
Funding was provided for the competition through the Scottish Government's People and Place Programme which is delivered regionally through SPT.
The competition took place at two of the Council’s Traffic-Free Schools which aim to make it more attractive for walking, wheeling and cycling to encourage more journeys to be made in this way.
Traffic-Free Schools is an initiative where driving is prohibited on sections of road immediately outside the entrance to schools, for a short period of time at the start and end of the school day.
It aims to help improve safety by reducing the volume of vehicles parked and moving around at the busiest areas for children and adults accessing the school.
Provost Renwick added, “It was lovely to meet the prize winners and their enthusiasm for trying to encourage others to ride and stride to school shone through in their entries.
“It was great to hear for myself how the Traffic-Free Schools project has transformed the journeys to school for so many of our pupils.”
