See below how you can get involved in promoting safe walking and biking to our local elementary school.

Hardy School Safe Routes Website

Welcome to year two of the Safe Routes to School Program that integrates walking AND cycling at the Hardy!

In order to inspire and ensure more families walk and bike to school at the Hardy and beyond, we need ONE thing more than anything: Parent volunteers to step up, help out in any small way and encourage other parents to do the same. Can you help out? Send me an email listing what you can do to help. Do you know others who do?  Pease forward this and have them contact me.

I want to applaud Deb D’Amico for her enthusiasm in taking the lead and supporting this shift happen; this is huge! Now we need parents to help out and spread the word.

Deb and I met on Wednesday morning to discuss the schedule of events to launch the spring Safe Routes to School program. The key objectives we discussed were:

1. Recruiting a 2-5 parents who are committed to walking to school to lead walking school buses regularly & punctually from their neighborhood short and long term. Will need to integrate this activity into curriculum night in the fall
2. Making cycling safer by better communicating the established dismount zone around the school
3. Where to install Hardy’s first bike racks!
4. Dates for the Safe Routes to School Activities
   

                Here are the dates

1. April 12th Assembly introduction about the Safe Routes to School & dismount program
2. April 13th  8:30 AM. Mark your calendar. Meeting in the cafeteria about the Safe Routes to School Program. All Hardy Parents interested in making this a success are asked to please
3. Bike in the Patriot’s Day Parade! A section of this year’s parade will be dedicated to biking. Decorate your bikes and join us at 1:45
4. Week of 4/27: Distribute a “fridge” calendar (LH) and have families track their children’s walk and bike days. Distribute calendar via classrooms and Walk-a-thon.  
5. Go Green Every Friday when all kids are encouraged to wear green and walk or bike to school. A volunteer will be in the playground to hand out a small prize each week to kids that GO GREEN. NEED VOLUNTEERS FOR THIS
6. Kick off day is Wednesday, May 5th. NEED VOLUNTEERS
7. May 7th. Walkathon
8. May 28th, Hand in the calendar ( need someone to make a colorful box)
9. June 1 Tally the results NEED A VOLUNTEER
10. Playground Celebration on June 7th. Raffle for prizes. Green popsicles.