Ride2School
About this page
Wednesday March 17 2010
The Ride2School Program is a behaviour change program which aims to increase the number of students walking and riding. Ride2School encourages healthy lifestyles by increasing students' physical activity levels.
Reasons to encourage your children to Ride to School include it's good for their health, good for their education, good for the environment and good for the family budget.
The program consists of Five main components -
1. Hands Up Surveys
Regular online surveys track the number of students arriving at school by different forms of transport. Students enjoy being surveyed and this encourages students to be active on the way to and from school. To take part in the hands up survey and to be in the running for great prizes register here.
2. Events
Ride2School Day in March and the Walk and Wheel-A-Thon in October. We provide the resources so that you can run your own events. Events are a great way to spark the interest of non riders and walkers, showing them how easy, fun and energizing it is to be active on the way to and from school.
3. Facilities
Bike sheds, school crossings, bike paths, traffic calming treatments and quiet neighborhood routes all help to promote riding and walking to school by providing a safer environment around the school. We have developed resources to allow you to assess your school's needs and to help you initiate necessary changes.
4. Incentive activities
There are plenty of ideas and strategies for getting more students walking and riding to school. These include:
- "Active Travel Trophies"
- A passport to frequent Riding
- Charting the progress of regular riders
- Providing good facilites
5. Schools Coordinator consultation
Contact us and ask about the expert assistance from the Ride2School staff.
Ride2School is coordinated by the Bicycle Network and the majority of programs are available to WA schools.
