PUPILS at a North Yorkshire school have been getting to their classrooms in a healthier, cheaper and more environmentally-friendly way- by walking.

The Eco-Council at Kirkby and Great Broughton School, in Kirkby, run walking buses once a week from the car parks at the Wainstones Hotel and the Bay Horse Inn, where the children will be walked to school by a team of volunteers.

As part of national Walk to School Week an extra day of walking buses was arranged, with more than a third of pupils using the service on one or both days.

The motto of the service was Walk nā€™ Talk to encourage children to interact before settling down for the day.