Steps to start planning your event
Set a date
Ask the Principal which dates and times would suit best so your event doesn’t clash with other school events like NAPLAN, sports days, swimming lessons or report writing.
Choose a weekday least complicated by other events such as music lessons or sports classes.
Create a student team
Ask the Principal for approval to set up a Your Move Student Team, to lighten teachers’ loads and provide students with teamwork and leadership opportunities.
Identify some rewards
What incentives could encourage students to participate?
- Stamps, stickers or tattoos are a fun and easy way to celebrate active students on their arrival at school gates, as are Star cards and classroom tick charts.
- Random raffle ticket days could surprise dedicated students and stir excitement for an end of term prize from the Your Move rewards collection.
- Utilise existing reward systems such as faction points.
Event plan
- Allocate tasks to team members for before, during and after “Move” days.
- How will you promote the day? E.g. Student designed posters, PA announcements, newsletter articles, website content, social media, assembly, P+C, local newspaper or new families pack.
- Impress your Principal with your great ideas and secure their approval.
Promotion
- Check the timing for school newsletter submissions and add dates to your Event Plan. Aim for a flyer home and a newsletter item in the fortnight and the week before the event.
- Put up posters around the school – on noticeboards, outside classrooms, the library, school office, etc. Get the Your Move Student Team designing!
- Use staff meetings and the school’s intranet to tell teachers about the event. Why are you supporting it and why is it of interest to others? Offer teachers some active travel curriculum-based activities to do with their students.