The day is about to start at Holmer Green First School, and a horde of children on scooters whizz into the conservatory, leaving a pile of machines in the corner. "How they know whose is whose, I don't know," laughs a volunteer mum. She works through the queue of energetic five-, six- and seven-year-olds eagerly waiting to get their "passports" stamped - proof they have walked, scooted or cycled to school.
Holmer Green is far from typical. When its Go for Gold scheme was introduced as part of Walk to School Week in October 2000, the percentage of children arriving at the school by car dropped from 62 to 26 per cent.
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