Active Travel Program

 Check out this web link for more ideas about being safe on your bike http://www.cyh.com/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetailsKids.aspx?p=335&np=288&id=1573 There are other great ideas for kids on this site as well. 

Malvern Valley Primary School encourages children to walk, ride and scoot to school to increase their health and fitness and as a way of helping to take care of our environment.   

We are using Ride2School passports.  

Each day we ride, scoot or walk to school we mark it on our passport.

When we have completed our passport we get an incentive prize to encourage us to keep going. 

We joined the Ride2School Hands Up monitoring program in 2008. 

Here you can see our progress in increasing the number of children being active on their way to and from school. 

On the National Ride2School Day we had 82.7% of our chidlren walking and riding to school.

It was a wet day so how did we do this? 

We organised lunchtime riding.  The House Captains put together a course around the school and then groups of riders (from trainer wheel groups to experienced groups) rode the course.  We also had scooter groups and walker groups.  It was a fantastic day. 

 Each month we collect the data on how we come to school.  We enter this on the Hands Up website and we are able to produce graphs to show the % of Active Travellers at MVPS.  When we began at the start of 2008 we had just over 30% of our children involved in riding, scooting or walking to school.  In April this year you can see that we have many more children being active. 

After school each day lots of children like to ride so we have pre school to grade 6 children riding together.  The grade 4s like to practice the new skills that they have learnt during Bike Education sessions and the young ones like to copy them.  During After School Care the children get an opportunity to ride and scoot and this is a very popular time.