Active Travel Short Films
See below our current range of short films created for the My Journey team to encourage alternatives to car travel on the school run and highlight the benefits for the body and mind of spending time outside.
To support mental health awareness, the My Journey Team collaborated with our friends at Histrionics to create this short, historical film. It is themed around kindness, mental health and exercise for wellbeing, all woven into the true tale of an English cyclist, James Moore, who was brought up in France in the 19th century.
For more mental health resources, visit our Walking for Wellbeing pages.
Transition Time - Starting in Year R
It’s Transition Time: New school, new journey! Enjoy this 8-minute, funny film with incompetent Pirate Captain Stede Bonnet, "The Gentleman Pirate" from Barbados who lived in the late 17th and early 18th century. Join in the pirate training and map making, and be inspired to plan an active, safe and pollution-free journey to your new school. For more information, visit our Transition Time pages.
Transition Time - Starting in Years 3 and 7
It’s Transition Time: New school, new journey! Enjoy this 8-minute, humorous, historical film about Roman Vitruvius with lots of tips on planning a sustainable, safe and pollution-free journey to your new school. For more information, visit our Transition Time pages.
Scooting in People-friendly streets (Primary)
Meet Baron Karl Von Drais de Saurbrun, who invented the 'street walker' in 1817. He speaks on the importance of making a positive environmental difference in your local community and how greater exercise and clean travel can benefit all. Perhaps he can persuade you that, if you have the courage to change your behaviour and habits, you too can help to create People-friendly Streets.
For more information, visit our Scooter Challenge and Clean Air pages.
People-friendly Streets (Secondary)
Meet William Morris, famous in the Victorian period for affordable and environmentally friendly wallpaper. He speaks on the importance of making a positive environmental difference in your local community and how greater exercise and clean travel can benefit all. Perhaps he can persuade you that, if you have the courage to change your behaviour and habits, you too can help to create People-friendly Streets.
For more information, visit our Clean Air pages.
Active Travel
KS1: An interactive, time-travelling tale, told by Sir Gawain, the Green Screen Knight of the Court of King Arthur.
KS2: An interactive tale of a Viking invasion told by Leofric, Anglo Saxon House Guard to King Alfred the Great.
Air Quality
KS1: A humorous, interactive tale about air quality told by Samuel Pepys. It's set in 1666 around the time of the Great Fire of London. Get ready to join in the fun ... but watch out for those smelly streets!
KS2: An informative and interactive tale about air quality told by Professor Robert Angus Smith, a Scottish chemist known as "the Grandfather of acid rain".
For more information, visit our Clean Air pages.
Walktober Scavenger Hunts
This Mindful Scavenger Hunt was put together by our friend Kate at The Mindful Runner. Watch this short film and follow her instructions for a fantastic mindful activity, originally launched as part of the 2020 Walktober challenge.
This Mindful Scavenger Hunt was put together by our friend Kate at The Mindful Runner. Watch this short film and follow her instructions for a fantastic mindful activity, originally launched as part of the 2020 Walktober challenge. For more information, visit our Walktober pages.