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From May 13th to May 17th 2013 families throughout Sligo went that extra mile to celebrate National Walk.to School Week 2013. Schools involved in the Green-Schools Travel theme encouraged parents and pupils to reap the benefits of incorporating a walk into the school run.

Two schools in County Sligo held cycle training for pupils in April, with Kilross NS (left)arranging a six week tuition programme with Youth Sport West trainer Dara who held classes after school each Tuesday, with thanks to funding from An Taisce.

Two weeks before Easter Green-Schools Travel Officer for Clare, Róisín Ní Gháirbhith, launched a campaign to get people back on their bikes. Róisín organised a free bike fixing workshop on Easter Saturday, March 30th, with many bike mechanics on hand to help people fix their bikes and sell second hand bikes. In total 80 bikes were made road-worthy on the day.

reen-Schools officer Laura Heneghan completed a leg of the Cycle Against Suicide and sent us this report:

Over 20 children from St. Patrick’s N.S., Fohenagh, Co. Galway, their teacher Anne Burke, parents and local historian Frank Gavin attended a fieldtrip to the Bunowen River on Friday, April 26th. The school is working towards their Green Flag for Water.

RTE's news2day show came to Monday's Green-Schools Travel Awards in Croke Park. Click through for a link to the show.

Invitations and details of ceremony locations and times have been sent out to schools across Ireland who will be receiving Green Flags at award ceremonies across Ireland in May. Congratulations to everyone coming to this year's awards; we are looking forward to meeting you! Click through for more information.

Teacher Catherine Tierney and her enthusiastic students did Garryowen, Limerick proud yesterday with their monster Spring Clean as part of An Taisce's National Spring Clean event 2013.

An Taisce, in partnership with the Department of Transport and the National Transport Authority, were delighted to host this year’s Green-Schools Travel Competition Awards Ceremony in Croke Park, Dublin today, Tuesday 23rd April at 11am, to award the winning schools in its national travel competition which saw Belgrove Senior Boys School awarded the title of Ireland’s Travel School of the Year for 2013.

Pupils, parents and staff have been working hard to increase cycling to school at Holy Family NS in Tubbercurry Co Sligo