The school promotion includes transport options such as walking, biking, scooting, skating and busing and, for those staff and students who travel from further afield, encouragement to car pool. The activities are tailored to give children the abilities and confidence to get to school using options matching their ages.
For the younger children an orientation/walking exercise has been organised to promote a safe journey.
Year 5-6 students will see 100 pupils and 20 adults involved in an "amazing bus race" which has been organised in conjunction with Waikato Regional Council. They'll be hopping on and off buses around the city.
Year 7-8 students' bike, skate and scooter competitions will run for two hours with the support of police.
A certificate ceremony for the student-led group will be conducted by Councillor Martin Gallagher. As a finale, Waikato Regional Council's road safety mascot Ruben the Bear will reinforce road safety messages for the younger students and the Funky Monkeys will perform for the older students.
July 30 was chosen to mark the anniversary of the 1979 introduction of the Muldoon Government's Carless Days scheme - one of several attempts to help the declining New Zealand economy after the oil shocks of the late 1970s.
Car owners had to nominate one day a week on which they would not use their cars and were given a sticker to attach to the windscreen.
It also marked the country's attempt to introduce widespread car-pooling.