San Ramon Elementary School Awarded $1,000 for Increasing Physical Activity

SAN RAMON, CA — A San Ramon elementary school picked up the pace in an effort to boost their fitness and earned cash awards in the process. Live Oak Elementary was recently awarded $1,000 for successfully participating in the Fire Up Your Feet program, which is part of Kaiser Permanente’s Thriving Schools campaign, school district officials said.

“Live Oak is thrilled and proud to be recognized for the Fire Up Your Feet School Champion Award. This has been a partnership with our school community and City of San Ramon to improve traffic and safety to school for our students. Placing third in the Activity Challenge was great effort from our PTA, staff and school community to understand the importance of a healthy lifestyle and log all activities for our school to receive credit. We are so proud of all of our Golden Eagles,” says Principal, Nadine Rosenzweig.

District officials say the goal of the program is to increase physical activity before, during and after school for students, parents, school staff and teachers. In an effort to encourage students to walk and bicycle to school, administrators and parent Kira Feick worked with city officials to help solve traffic safety issues.

“As a result of letters, meetings, and traffic site observations, several suggestions were taken back to the city for review and ultimately approved,” district officials said. “The suggestions include converting the lower parking lot at the school to a one-way, re-striping the parking spaces in the lot to emphasize the one-way driving rule. There will be an additional sign posted at a major intersection to read ‘No Turn on Red’ with allocated times to help avoid pedestrian/biker collision with vehicles.”

District officials said the new route helps pedestrians and bikers avoid walking and riding along busy East Branch Parkway and now guides them through a park with a paved path that leads directly to the school.

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