Golden Sneaker Awards
With the Golden Sneaker Awards, classrooms compete for the honor of being the class with the greatest % of walkers and rollers in a given month (can also be calculated weekly). This is an inexpensive and fun way to get kids motivated to walk or ride their bikes to school.
The number of children who walk/roll can be calculated in several ways:
- 1) Weekly or monthly counts of Walk/Roll Wednesday drawing tickets
- 2) Classroom tallies (teachers or parent volunteers can conduct weekly counts, or a tally sheet can be hung in each classroom where kids can easily mark whether they walked/rolled each morning, and volunteers collect tally sheets weekly or monthly to calculate points)
“We do official Walk and Roll days on the first Wednesday of each month, awarding the sneaker on Friday to the class with the highest percentage of kids participating. It is a very exciting moment and there is keen competition, especially between grades 3-5. We’ll announce the pizza party prize in May, with the class with the most months of holding the coveted sneaker. Right now there is a virtual tie between these grades.
“A nice side note is that I can say unequivocally, more students are walking and rolling this year on a daily basis, and more of them are getting together at someone’s home to come in groups. Nice!”
~ Susan Olsen, Principal, Sebastopol Independent Charter School
