The Massachusetts Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program promotes healthy alternatives for children and parents in their travel to and from school. It educates students, parents and community members on the value of walking and bicycling for travel to and from school. Over 5,000 students from all nine of the City's elementary schools and all four of the middle schools celebrated the Massachusetts Walk and Bike To School Day on May 2, 2012, by walking either to or around their respective schools. "This event encourages students who are already walking and students and parents who might consider walking to consider making the commitment," stated School Wellness Coordinator Marcia Picard who helped to organize the events. Students also participated in a first-ever Bike To School event. Click here to see a video of the walkers at each of the thirteen schools. Click here for the Herald News story. For more information about the program, contact School Wellness Coordinator Marcia Picard at 508-675-8227.
 

(Henry Lord) Kimberly Riox and Ferrisha Cooley wait for friends on the way to Henry Lord at 7:00 a.m., before organizers Claudia Costa, Robin Thorpe and Liz Gomes arrive at the school. (Tansey) School Principal Kristen Farias, right, walks with the students on the way to the Tansey Elementary School. (Doran) Physical education teacher Ryan Andrade waits to lead students, including Danielle Jones, Ciara Oliveira and Jessica Pith, to the school along Columbia Street. (Watson) Principal Karlene Ross joins the students for a run three times around the playground. (Greene) Sabrina Dias Debbie DeSalko leads students along the hallway at the Greene School. (Letourneau) Fifth-grader Callie Ferreira holds a sign that she made outside of the Letourneau School. (Silva) Principal Denise Ward guides the students outside the building where the older students walked to Riggenbach Road and back while the younger students walked around the building twice.

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