The May 2025 campaign is being supported by the Public Health Grant, as well as the Derby and Derbyshire Road Safety Partnership.
Pupils, parents and carers will be encouraged to follow the SMILERS ways to wellbeing by moving their feet to the Travel Smart beat on the school journey during the week 19 to 23 May 2025.
Each day of Travel Smart week will have a SMILERS wellbeing focus alongside an active travel themed song to help inspire a healthier and safer school journey which is good for them and the world around us!
The SMILERS ways to wellbeing are:
- Stay connected - having healthy relationships with people and pets to help you to feel happy
- Move - being active releases chemicals in your brain which boosts your mood and makes you feel good
- Interest - having special interests and learning something new to help keep your brain busy
- Look - using your senses to notice what is around you to keep you in the moment
- Eating well - eating a balanced diet to make you feel good and also to help you stay healthy and strong
- Rest - getting a good night's sleep to improve your memory, mood and mental health
- Support - supporting others to make us feel positive and to make them happy too!
Themes for each day
Stay connected Monday
Where pupils will be encouraged to share, sing and chat with the friends and grown-ups they travel with about the songs which make them happy
I like to move it Tuesday
Where pupils will move it, shake it off, jump, stomp, hopscotch or get spinning around on their wheels for an active school journey.
Walk this way Wednesday
Where pupils will be reminded to keep their senses tuned. To stop, look out and listen for traffic when they get to the roadside and to look out for each other and for safer places to cross.
Step back in time Thursday
Pupils will be encouraged to find out interesting and fascinating facts about journeys in the past.
Feel good Friday
Where pupils will be encouraging drivers to switch off when they drop off and to park away from school for a fume free Friday that helps everyone smile and feel good!
School staff and parents can share their top 10 Travel Smart Tunes that inspire them to make an active journey on the Travel Smart X account and Derby and Derbyshire Road Safety Partnership on X.