Information required from your school, within two weeks of being confirmed as an Access Guide recipient, includes the following, and should be emailed to schools@westcycle.org.au

• Confirmation of school name and street address
• A high-resolution photo of your school
• A high-resolution file of your school's logo (.ai or .eps preferred, .png is ok too)
• Two short student testimonials (less than 80 characters including spaces) detailing why they like to walk, scoot or ride to school
• High-resolution photos of the two students as well as completed DoT talent release Forms (WestCycle to provide) confirming permission from parents for DoT to use their photo. The photos can be a profile shot, or show the students participating safely in active transport.

Our contract provider, WestCycle, will complete a safe routes to school audit to identify four to five safe active travel routes to your school. 

Once the audit has been completed and four to five safe routes to your school have been identified we require your feedback on these routes. Feedback should include information about on-site and nearby walking and riding infrastructure and facilities.The routes will be shared via a Google Map provided by WestCycle.

Your school must also identify the locations of the elements that you would like included on your access guide, such as:

• Local walking and riding infrastructure
• Local amenities 
• 'Park and walk' locations
• Walking bus starting points
• Location of school bike parking
• High traffic areas
• Crossing guard points 
• Nearby public transport

You can submit this information on the Google Map. We have a handy reference guide to help with this. 

This step would be an great opportunity to gather feedback from the student team, parents, and carers, or even consider presenting it at the next P&C meeting for discussion.

The information you provide in steps 1 and 3, along with the approved safe routes to school, will be drafted into an official Access Guide by the Your Move team and you will then have the opportunity to review and provide further feedback.

After your school has sent feedback on the draft Access Guide and the selected routes have been approved by the local government authority, blue footprints and 'look both ways' signs will be stencilled along the routes by WestCycle to indicate to parents and students where your safe routes to school are. 

WestCycle will also conduct a stencil painting activity with 8 to 10 students, where they’ll get to paint some of the footprints and 'look both ways' signs. WestCycle will confirm suitable dates for this activity. 

Once your Safe Routes to School Access Guide has been finalised, the Your Move team will provide your school with 300 printed copies as well as a digital PDF.

Your school is encouraged to:

• announce the map in your next school newsletter and share it on social media;
• send a hard copy home with students, include them in parent/induction packs and have them available in the school office;
• if possible, add the Access Guide to your school website, perhaps as a new 'Travel to School' page; and
• post a story on the Your Move website to earn points!