Pupils in Cardiff are celebrating reaching a national leader board of schools making strides to walk or wheel to school. Six schools in Cardiff are on the WOW Top Ten leaderboard for February 2025 with Lakeside Primary School coming in first place. The other schools to have reached the Wales leader board are: Howardian Primary School (third place); Radnor Primary School (fifth place); Birchgrove Primary School (sixth place); Roath Park Primary School (eighth place); and Allensbank Primary School (tenth place).
WOW – the walk to school challenge from charity Living Streets Cymru sees pupils record how they get to school using the interactive WOW Travel Tracker with those who walk, wheel, cycle, scoot or ‘Park and Stride’ being awarded a monthly WOW badge. This term, pupils in Cardiff took part in the spring WOW Top Ten which asked them to walk to school as many times as possible during February.
Only around 53% of primary school children in Wales travel actively to school. However, 97% of journeys recorded on the WOW Travel Tracker by pupils at Lakeside Primary School during February were active travel. Catherine Woodhead, chief executive at Living Streets, said:
“We’re very happy to reward pupils in Cardiff as part of the WOW Top Ten – and congratulations to Lakeside Primary School for topping the leaderboard! Walking and wheeling to school keeps us fit, healthy and happy – and it reduces congestion, air pollution and road danger outside the school gates.
“It’s great to hear that pupils in Wales’s capital are benefitting from walking to school. I’m sure that they’ll inspire other children and their families to follow in their footsteps.”
The Cardiff schools competed with 232 eligible schools taking part in WOW across Wales to secure their place on the national leader board of most active schools.
