Photo Gallery: Gibbons Community Walks to School

Many students and parents were seen holding closed umbrellas as they made their way up the driveway, the final leg of Wednesday’s “Walk to School Day” at the elementary school.

Fortunately the rain held off and the umbrellas were just precautionary accessories.

Principal Lynne Jardin was pleased with the event’s “great turnout”—about 200 students walked to school on Wednesday, joined by some of their teachers and parents.

One “walking school bus” met at , another met at the and another met at Marks Field. All three locations were within a mile of the Gibbons.

The three buses then met at the corner of Brock and Morton Streets and they approached the school on Morton St. in one continuous line—a line which seemed never-ending as the students, teachers and parents paraded up the driveway and towards the blacktop playground area to the side of the school.

Jardin said the event was a positive way to start to the day. She said walking to school offered students a chance to do something with their friends and the opportunity to take part in a physical activity.

The Gibbons School plans on having another in the spring.