International Walk + Roll to School Day

International Walk + Roll to School Day 2021

 On October 6, 2021,  twenty Salem-Keizer elementary schools participated in International Walk + Roll to School Day, a world-wide event encouraging students to use active transportation to get to school.  In the weeks leading up to the event, our program staff delivered posters, prizes, and raffle tickets to participating schools. On the morning of the event, school staff set up tables full of prizes to greet students as they arrived on foot and by bicycle, rollerblade, scooter, skateboard, and other rolling devices.

At the end of their walking or rolling journey, each student picked out a Safe Routes to School prize from an assortment of items such as pencils, blinky lights, and reflective bands and filled out a raffle ticket for a reflective drawstring backpack. In total, 8,500 incentive prizes for Safe Routes to School were given to Salem-Keizer students. The entryways to school that morning were bustling with activity and smiles as children enjoyed the event.

In 2021, schools from all fifty states in the US and forty countries around the world celebrated International Walk + Roll to School Day. Participating elementary schools from Salem-Keizer included Auburn, Cummings, Chapman Hill, Forest Ridge, Grant, Gubser, Hallman, Harritt, Hayesville, Kalapuya, Keizer, Liberty, Miller, McKinley, Morningside, Schirle, Sumpter, Swegle, and Wright.