Discover how your school moves
Once you’ve signed up to the program a good way to get started is to use our quick and easy 'Hands up' travel survey to find out how your students currently get to school. The survey results are a great way to track your progress and promote your achievements to the whole school community.
Grow your team
Once you’ve signed up, share the fun by getting others in your school community involved. Students love the opportunity to run their own activities, post stories and earn points for their efforts. A parent, teacher, school deputy and a group of student leaders make a winning combination to lead activities.
Choose your activities
Use our new ‘Activity Planner’ to set goals, identify things you want to achieve and the steps you need to take to get there. Select from our tried and tested classroom activities and lesson plans mapped to the WA curriculum. We also have other activity ideas like event days and competitions to help get your students moving.
Share your stories and earn points
Tell everyone about what you've been up to and earn points for your school, which can then be redeemed for items in our rewards shop. Get inspiration and new ideas from what other schools have been doing.
Spend your points on rewards
Use your points to order items in our online rewards shop, specifically chosen to support active travel. Rewards include leadership team t-shirts, bike and scooter racks, bike education sessions and fun incentives for your students.
Keep the momentum going!
Use your rewards to build momentum and unlock access to a ‘Connecting Schools Grant’, which can be used for big ticket items like bike racks, bike shelters and to run bike education sessions at your school.
Top Stories
A bit late to the party, but I finally got around to doing a more thorough access check. I initially had just focused on the actual infrastructure such as bike racks, showers, and lockers.
However, with the support of a physio and aged care team member, we did a walk around the campus to look at public transport access, cycle paths on the main roads adjoining the campus, and footpaths. We also considered how these all linked up to ensure a continuous journey, taking into account those using mobility aids such as gophers, and bikes.
We took some photos of issues, such as cracked pavements, and cycle paths that ended abruptly.
These were reported using the Snap Send Solve app, and the City of Greater Geraldton rapidly responded, already fixing up one of the footpaths.
The initial accessibility check was done just based on our own knowledge, but later cross-referenced with the handy Your Move template. This helped identify a few other areas I hadn’t considered, such as the policies we had in place to encourage active travel and improve staff health.
At our whole-school assembly on Friday the 15th of November, I spoke at assembly on behalf of the Your Move team. It was an update for community, staff and students about Fume Free Fridays at Winthrop. With the weather warming up, we wanted to remind our students to use active transport to get to school whenever possible, and especially on Fridays. The update was well timed as it tied into the sustainability theme of the Year 4 assembly on future farms.
On Friday 22nd of November, Winthrop Primary is hosting a Walk n' Talk to School Day. This ties in with our weekly Fume Free Friday but goes that extra step further to encourage families to choose active transport to get to school. Walk n' Talk to School Day encourages community to chat on their way, increasing belonging and creating a sense of community. There will be staff and parents on the day handing out stickers to students who walk to create a visual display of participation. The event has been advertised to our families and community through staff email, Connect notices, Facebook posts and Facebook stories. We are hoping for a fabulous morning with community out walking and creating social connections along the way.
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