Get ready to step into winter and embrace the chill - 🌨️Winter Walk to School Week🌨️☂ is coming!
From Monday 18 August to Friday 22 August 2025, students and families across Western Australia are encouraged to swap the car ride for a brisk winter walk to school.
Walking to school is a great way to stay active, reduce traffic congestion and enjoy the fresh winter air. It’s also a perfect opportunity to build healthy habits and spend quality time together.
Fun activity ideas for the week:
🚶♀️🛴🚲 Walk,wheel and ride during the Noongar season of Djilba.
Djilba, the Noongar season of transition, brings cooler days, blooming wildflowers, and the stirring of new life. It's the perfect time to embrace the outdoors, whether walking, wheeling, or riding, while connecting with nature.
👉 Check out our cool Activity Sheet ‘Walk, wheel and ride during Djilba’
👣 Walking Bingo – Create a bingo card with things to spot on your walk (e.g. a bird, puddle, dog, red car). The first person to get five in a row wins!
👩🏼🤝🧑🏻Talk N Walk – Check out Nature Play WA’s Talk N Walk conversation prompt cards, which provide valuable conversation prompts and simple outdoor activity challenges to encourage participants to spend time connecting whilst walking together.
💡 A limited quantity of the Talk N Walk conversation prompt cards are available in the Rewards Shop.
🎨 Decorate Your Winter Walkers – Invite students to decorate their shoes or boots with fun winter-themed designs.
👉Check out Scarborough Primary School’s recent Winter Welly Boot Wednesday story.
🧣 Cosy Walk Day – Pick a day for everyone to wear their warmest scarves, beanies, gloves, long socks, boots and oodies. Bonus points for fun colours or patterns!
💡 Check out the funky Your Move Knee High Socks in the Rewards Shop.
🚶♀️ Walking School Bus – Organise a supervised group walk where students can join in along the route. It’s safe, social and sustainable!
💡Check out how to start a Walking School Bus.
🎁 Redeem Your Move Rewards! – Schools participating in Winter Walk to School Week can also redeem fun items such as Your Move umbrellas and kids umbrellas, colourful short socks and knee high socks, stickers and books as prizes to reward student involvement and celebrate active travel.
Let’s make Winter Walk to School Week a celebration of movement, community and winter fun. See you on the footpath!
From Monday 18 August to Friday 22 August 2025, students and families across Western Australia are encouraged to swap the car ride for a brisk winter walk to school.
Walking to school is a great way to stay active, reduce traffic congestion and enjoy the fresh winter air. It’s also a perfect opportunity to build healthy habits and spend quality time together.
Fun activity ideas for the week:
🚶♀️🛴🚲 Walk,wheel and ride during the Noongar season of Djilba.
Djilba, the Noongar season of transition, brings cooler days, blooming wildflowers, and the stirring of new life. It's the perfect time to embrace the outdoors, whether walking, wheeling, or riding, while connecting with nature.
👉 Check out our cool Activity Sheet ‘Walk, wheel and ride during Djilba’
👣 Walking Bingo – Create a bingo card with things to spot on your walk (e.g. a bird, puddle, dog, red car). The first person to get five in a row wins!
👩🏼🤝🧑🏻Talk N Walk – Check out Nature Play WA’s Talk N Walk conversation prompt cards, which provide valuable conversation prompts and simple outdoor activity challenges to encourage participants to spend time connecting whilst walking together.
💡 A limited quantity of the Talk N Walk conversation prompt cards are available in the Rewards Shop.
🎨 Decorate Your Winter Walkers – Invite students to decorate their shoes or boots with fun winter-themed designs.
👉Check out Scarborough Primary School’s recent Winter Welly Boot Wednesday story.
🧣 Cosy Walk Day – Pick a day for everyone to wear their warmest scarves, beanies, gloves, long socks, boots and oodies. Bonus points for fun colours or patterns!
💡 Check out the funky Your Move Knee High Socks in the Rewards Shop.
🚶♀️ Walking School Bus – Organise a supervised group walk where students can join in along the route. It’s safe, social and sustainable!
💡Check out how to start a Walking School Bus.
🎁 Redeem Your Move Rewards! – Schools participating in Winter Walk to School Week can also redeem fun items such as Your Move umbrellas and kids umbrellas, colourful short socks and knee high socks, stickers and books as prizes to reward student involvement and celebrate active travel.
Let’s make Winter Walk to School Week a celebration of movement, community and winter fun. See you on the footpath!
Written Written by Jennifer Seeto
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Comment by Natasha Hardy
Published on 06/08/2025
Absolutely love this idea! We may have to Magpie it sometime. Enjoy the walk.