A school in Banstead has won a rare gold-standard national award for the number of pupils using sustainable modes of travel.

Banstead Community Junior School, in the Horseshoe, is one of only eight schools in the country to have been awarded the gold school mark of the Sustrans Bike It Award.

Miss Mauren Trayner, the school’s Bike It officer, said she hoped pupils would continue to use green forms of travel right the way through their lives.

On being presented with the award, Miss Trayner said: "We hope to encourage the children to take up sustainable travel throughout their lives, not just when they travel to school, but when they eventually go to work too."

Reigate and Banstead's Bike It officer congratulated all the children at a special assembly.

Mrs Tomlinson said: "It takes most schools 3 to 4 years to achieve this and you have worked fantastically hard since 2010."