Active School Travel

As part of Brisbane City Council’s Active School Travel program, we surveyed our students over one week to find out how they travel to school. The survey results are back and show 70% of students are currently driven to school. 

This year, our goal is to encourage and enable more students to walk (or Park and Stride), cycle, scooter, car pool or take public transport to and from school. This will not only reduce traffic congestion at the school gate, but also improve our physical and mental health and fitness, create a cleaner environment and make streets safer.

Active School Travel’s ‘AST Crew’ of super travellers were special guests at our assembly last week. Our students learned how they can actively travel to school by walking, cycling, scootering, car-pooling or catching public transport.

We also launched our AST program with an Anti-bullying Park’n’Stride on Friday 18 March. We improved our average AST percentage from 30% across our data collection week in Week 4 to 57% on Friday! That means lots more students actively travelled to school.

Remember every Friday is Wondall Walker & Wheelies Day! We will award trophies and an awesome sport’s kit to the leading upper and lower school classes on fortnightly parades – they will get to keep and use these for the fortnight. How will you actively travel with us this week?