We look forward to welcoming our students back to school on Monday 17th April.

Modeshift STARS is the Centre of Excellence for the delivery of Effective Travel Plans in Education, Business and Community settings. The scheme recognises schools, businesses and other organisations that have shown excellence in supporting cycling, walking and other forms of sustainable active travel. Further information on Modeshift can be found here.

Throughout the year, Penshurst have created, developed and implemented a range of Effective Travel Plans to bring about a change in travel behaviour and to reduce the number of single occupancy vehicle journeys to and from school. This included The Big Walk and Wheel scheme, which the school developed to encourage their pupils to be more active and to walk, bike or scoot to school.

Instead of children coming into school dressed up as a character from one of their favourite books, they could, alternatively, come to school dressed up as their favourite word instead.

"With our country suffering with the current Cost of Living Crisis, we didn't want parents to spend a fortune on fancy dress costumes. Therefore, we wanted to implement an alternative option by allowing our students to use their imagination and create a customised outfit at home, representing a word. For example, one of our students came to school dressed as the word 'News' - she showed great initiative, simply using pieces of newspaper pinned to her top!"

Michelle Preston - Head of Penshurst Primary

Evie - Year 6 student at Penshurst Primary School dressed as the word 'News'

Thank you so much to those that have made some wonderful donations: gooseberry bush, seeds, compost and tomato plants to name but a few!

We look forward to sharing more photos with you soon