Your Move Schools - Building a student team
Getting your school community involved in Your Move from the start gives everyone a sense of ownership and responsibility and helps when allocating tasks too.
A Your Move Student Leadership Team will become an important decision making body in the school concerning the best methods and actions to tackle travel issues at the school. Teamed with champion parents and teachers and support from School Administration this will be a dream team combination. Students are key players in changing the school’s social norms, so it’s great to include them in every aspect of events, brainstorming or decision making.
Your student team will gain important teamwork and leadership skills to:
- Represent the school community as part of the Your Move Program.
- Help survey and consult the school community to measure progress towards increasing the number of students who walk, ride, scoot, skate and take public transport for the school trip.
- Investigate the problems caused by car related congestion and road safety issues at your school and prepare a list of actions that will form solutions.
- Write stories on your schools profile page on the events and initiatives that are being planned and happening at your school for the website, newsletter stories, give assembly presentations, encourage competition entries, promote events etc.
- Think creatively, have fun and be innovative to get the whole school community excited about Your Move!
Watch the video
Watch the short video interview below with Arlene, one of our long time Champions at Warnbro Primary School. It demonstrates how you go about building a Your Move student team and the benefits that you might see by getting your students involved.