TWO youngsters are to appear on posters across east Cleveland to encourage children to walk to school.
Charlotte McLoughlin, eight, and seven-year-old Luke Churchill, from Beech Grove Primary School, South Bank, near Middlesbrough, will feature on 200 posters circulated to all primary schools in the area.
They are promoting Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council's first Walk to School Week of the year.
Beech Grove's acting headteacher Tracy Clarvis said: "The two of them have always walked to school - they're model pupils, hard-working and enthusiastic and keen to get here."
About 94 per cent of Beech Grove's children walk to school - a success rate the council's road safety manager Mike Hall would like to see repeated across the borough.
"We are the only council in the region to have a Walk To School week this term and we'll have another two in May and October to keep pressing home the message."
Road safety mascot Spike the Hedgehog presented Charlotte and Luke with goody bags and framed posters during assembly yesterday.
Spike will be making surprise visits to other primary schools across the borough during the week.
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