MORE than 13,000 schoolchildren in Middlesbrough are striding out for Walk-to-School Week.
Forty of the 42 primary schools in the town are taking part this week.
Meanwhile, two six-year-olds have been featured on 5,000 posters promoting the benefits of walking to school in Redcar and east Cleveland.
Harry Shellard and Sam Tucker, of St Albans RC Primary School, in Redcar, walk to school every day and have appeared on the posters to help set an example to other pupils.
Headteacher David O'Callaghan said: "They do very well and we are trying to encourage as many of our pupils as possible to follow their example."
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