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Communications and promotions
Activity: Write an article in your school newsletter
Write an article in your school newsletter
Promote the Your Move message by writing an article about your activities in your school newsletter. You might want to simply spread the word, or promote an upcoming event or whole school campaign. Let us know what you wrote about and how it was received by the school community.Points value: 20
Activity: Promote active travel on social media or website
Promote active travel on social media or website
Promote active travel options to the community and staff by posting about it on your social media channels or website.Points value: 22
Activity: Run a colouring-in competition
Run a colouring-in competition
Whether you are building the excitement and awareness around an upcoming active travel event, promoting a ride or walk safety message or simply want to generate a little bit of healthy competition amongst your school community, running a colouring-in competition is a great activity you can get the whole school involved in. Run the competition your own way by designing your own poster to colour-in or use a pre-made colouring-in poster the supports your message. The only criteria to earn the activity points, is that the colouring-in topic must relate to active, sustainable travel. Check out Winterfold's story on their colouring-in competition for inspiration.Points value: 25
Activity: Create a Your Move display in the library or on school open day
Create a Your Move display in the library or on school open day
Use your newly acquired active travel-based books that you've redeemed in the YM Rewards Shop to set up a display to make students and parents more aware of the benefits of active travel to school.Points value: 20
Activity: Conduct a parent survey
Conduct a parent survey
To make real changes to active travel behaviour at your school, it's important to find out a little more information about how the parents at your school travel and what challenges they face when it comes to using active modes of transport to get to and from school. We can help you design and develop your survey, we've even created a handy resource to help you do it! Please note: You can run a new parent survey every year and earn points for doing so, just search for "Parent Survey" in the activities list.Points value: 60
Activity: Create a school access guide
Create a school access guide
Create an access guide for your school to show walking, cycling and public transport facilities, making it easy for visitors, staff or students to walk, ride a bicycle, catch a bus or ride the train to your school. Check out the 'Create a School Access Guide' resource along with the Lesson Plan - 'Map Safe Routes to School - Stencil Painting Activity' So why not redeem some of your points for an access guide that will really make a difference?Points value: 75
Activity: Share a story about Your Move on social media
Share a story about Your Move on social media
Using your communications channels to share Your Move messages with your community is one of the easiest ways to support a culture of active travel. We have created content that can be copy-and-pasted and posted on social media or used in any way you like. You can earn points each term by sharing content from the Communications Pack with your community and providing evidence that you've done so. A simple screenshot or link to post would be fine.Points value: 10
Activity: Include Your Move as an assembly item
Include Your Move as an assembly item
Plan and put on a series of school assembly items to promote Your Move throughout the year. This might be to report on an on-going campaign, or inform the school of a new event. Tell us how you went in Term One, and about what you are planning for next time as well!Points value: 30
Activity: Create a suggestions box to promote active or public transport
Create a suggestions box to promote active or public transport
Start a suggestion box where people can offer ideas on how to promote active transport on an ongoing basis. Make it even better by offering prizes for submissions. For more information check out this resourcePoints value: 15
Activity: Present Your Move to kindy parents
Present Your Move to kindy parents
Engage with the parents of new kindergarden students - introduce them to the YM program, seek volunteers, inspire! Maybe over a morning tea or in association with an activity with their children such as a scavenger hunt.Points value: 50
Activity: Promote bike facilities and bike security
Promote bike facilities and bike security
Promote bike facilities at your school or workplace, especially if they are new or have been upgraded. You could host tours of the facilities, or let people know of any changes by email or intranet. What can you do to help people keep their bikes secure and reduce bike theft? How about providing people with D-Locks or running a bike lock swap scheme? Or you could encourage people to head to www.bikelinc.com.au and set up a profile to give them the best chance of being reunited with their bike if it is lost or stolen.Points value: 22
Activity: Promote active travel options to staff or students
Promote active travel options to staff or students
Try promoting active travel through newsletter or intranet articles, you could also promote events, feature employees who use sustainable and active modes, provide news on any upgraded infrastructure and the benefits of active travel. You could also mention active options in a letter to new starters, put it in an information sheet in the induction pack or present at the induction seminar. For more information check out our resource.Points value: 15
Activity: Promote Your Move on school website or parent handbook
Promote Your Move on school website or parent handbook
Using school communications channels to share Your Move messages with your school community is one of the easiest ways to support a culture of active travel at your school. We have created content in our Communications Pack that can be copy-and-pasted onto your website, into your school newsletter, posted on social media or used in any way you like. You can earn points each term by sharing content with your school community on the website or parent handbook and providing evidence that you've done so. A simple screenshot or link to the website would be fine.Points value: 30
Activity: Promote public transport options to staff or students
Promote public transport options to staff or students
Provide public transport service information, put timetables on the noticeboard, send a link to the Transperth Journey Planner or encourage people to download the Transperth app on their smartphone. For more information check out our resourcePoints value: 15
Activity: Thank a traffic warden with an award or gift
Thank a traffic warden with an award or gift
Say thanks to the amazing volunteers who get up every weekday to help students cross busy roads safely. A little recognition or a small reward will make their day (or year!).Points value: 20
Activity: Create a 'sustainable travel' web page
Create a 'sustainable travel' web page
Establish an intranet, or web page with information on travel options for your school or organisation with links to Transperth journey planner and local Your Move Maps, location of bike facilities, walking distances to local amenities etc. See our guide for more information about public transport.Points value: 30
Activity: Collect parent pledges
Collect parent pledges
First Term parent pledge - encourages parents to make a commitment to change their behaviour regarding transport issues around the school. It could be to increase walking and cycling, or decrease speeding and parking on verges, or to support their child's class activities when needed. Download our resource and pledge sheet here.Points value: 50
Activity: Promote Your Move to schools in your area
Promote Your Move to schools in your area
Promote the Your Move program to schools in your local government area and try tp get them to register and engage with the program.Points value: 30
Activity: Create a map or access guide
Create a map or access guide
Create a community map or access guide for your workplace to show walking, cycling and public transport facilities, making it easy for people to walk, ride a bicycle, catch a bus or ride the train to their destination. Check out our handy Map Your Move resource page for some inspiration, or How to create a workplace access guidePoints value: 50
Activity: Provide active and public transport Info. for relocation
Provide active and public transport Info. for relocation
Address transport issues when planning an office relocation or refurbishment. Prepare staff for the move by providing relevant information, opportunities to try out public transport, cycling and SmartRiders, provide maps of the new location including cycle, and offer walking and public transport options. Tell us about how you went about your office relocation and any lessons you learned along the way.Points value: 60
Activity: Story in local media about Your Move
Story in local media about Your Move
Let your local community know all about the fun and successes you are having. Contact your local newspaper with a photo opportunity such as an event day, new infrastructure installed or celebration of a new accreditation level.Points value: 30
Activity: Provide maps and access guides
Provide maps and access guides
Provide maps and information about walking, cycling networks and public transport options for your local area. For more information check out our resourcePoints value: 25
Activity: Consult with the community about active travel improvements
Consult with the community about active travel improvements
Consult with your local community via a survey or focus group to see what issues and improvements could be made to encourage active travel network in your area. This could focus on infrastructure, behaviour change or even planting trees along key routes?Points value: 40
Activity: Promote independent travel to Year 7 parents
Promote independent travel to Year 7 parents
Delivered as part of our High School Active Travel - Year 7 Transition Guide, this helpful resource contains tips and information to help parents prepare their child for independent travel.Points value: 22
Activity: Provide public transport timetables
Provide public transport timetables
Produce a stop-specific timetable for the workplace. This is an alternative way to present and promote public transport services.Points value: 25
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Governance, policy and advocacy
Activity: Apply for a new school crosswalk and attendant
Apply for a new school crosswalk and attendant
Make the walk to school safer by applying for a crosswalk over a busy road, and/or get a crossing attendant for your school community. Involve your P&C, contact the local council and reach out to local media to ensure your plan is a success. Arrange a meeting onsite with a Local Council Technical Services Officer and ask for their help to make the crossing safer. Tell us about your plan of attack, and how you approached your barriers and milestones. Read more about applying for a school crossing here: https://www.police.wa.gov.au/Traffic/Childrens-Crossings-Unit/Childrens-CrossingsPoints value: 80
Activity: Carpooling system for staff
Carpooling system for staff
Set up a carpooling system for interested staff to link up together for their daily commute. Use your organisation's intranet where possible, or set up a smaller system for your own team or work group on a board in the staff room. You could hold a Postcode Morning tea where people meet with others who live near them to discuss carpooling options. Provide raffle prizes for people carpooling. (search for activity "Carpool rewards") Tell us your success factors and what helped your carpooling system to work? If you would like some top tips on carpooling then check out our useful How To Guide - Setting Up Carpooling at your Workplace.Points value: 50
Activity: Present Your Move at 'Lunch and learn' or P&C meeting
Present Your Move at 'Lunch and learn' or P&C meeting
Share the love! Introduce other teachers, parents and staff to the YM program. You could give a brief overview of Your Move and what you'd like to achieve followed by talking about some activities you'd like other teachers to do with their classes. Our 'How the school program works' page is a great place to start your presentation. :)Points value: 50
Activity: Provide a 'green travel' allowance
Provide a 'green travel' allowance
Organise a 'Green Travel' allowance scheme for those people taking public transport, cycling, scooting or walking to work. Look into the fringe benefits tax implications for this for your workplace. This might be subsidised SmartRider top-ups, $ (before tax) per day direct payment if staff forgo parking spaces, and so on. Tell us how you have set up your system, how it has been received by staff, and any behavioural changes since implementation. Look into the fringe benefits tax implications for this for your workplace. For more information check out our resourcePoints value: 80
Activity: Salary packaging options for active and public transport
Salary packaging options for active and public transport
Review salary packaging options to include incentives for walking, cycling and using public transport. This may be an allowance for SmartRider top-ups, bikes, or other active transport gear. Before you commit to this, explore the fringe benefits tax implications for your organisation. Here is our guide on providing SmartRider to staff to help get you thinking. Tell us about how you set up your workplace system and about any staff who have benefitted so far. Review salary packaging options to include incentives for walking, cycling and using public transport. This may be an allowance for SmartRider top-ups, bikes, or other active transport gear. Before you commit to this, explore the fringe benefits tax implications for your organisation. Here is our guide on providing SmartRiders to staff to help get you thinking. Tell us about how you set you your workplace system and about any staff who ave benefited so far.Points value: 50
Activity: Provide business SmartRiders
Provide business SmartRiders
Successfully advocate and organise for free auto loaded SmartRider cards to be made available to staff to try out journeys using public transport (including those that are registered for SmartParker, i.e. park and ride). These SmartRiders should be used by employees for business trips including site visits and meetings (where possible). Set up a simple booking sheet so staff can sign them out. Check out our guide on how to set one up. Tell us about the outcomes achieved with the purchase - are you getting more people riding the bikes for short distances?Points value: 50
Activity: Suggest path improvements to Local Government
Suggest path improvements to Local Government
Contact your local government to seek improvements to footpaths and shared paths to your school or workplace. This might include lighting, quality of path, or signage. Phone, write a letter or meet with your Local Government's Active Travel Officer, Technical Services officer or engineering team.Points value: 30
Activity: Embed Your Move into school policy or business plan
Embed Your Move into school policy or business plan
Your Move offers is a program that builds capacity of schools to address transport concerns, an issue facing many schools. However, the benefits go beyond mitigating congestion with improved road safety outcomes, opportunities to achieve sustainability goals and improved physical and mental health outcomes for students all possible through encouraging students to walk, ride and scoot more often to and from school. Your Move can be incorporated into school policies and business plans as a strategy to achieve targets relating to health and wellbeing, sustainability and building strong community connections. Doing so ensures the program aligns with the school direction and priorities and in turn ensures support and continuity of the program over time. Be inspired by reading how Winterfold Primary School has incorporated Your Move goals into their Sustainability Operations Plans. https://www.yourmove.org.au/winterfold-primary-school/updating-schools-plans/Points value: 40
Activity: Flexible working policy
Flexible working policy
Implement a flexible working policy in your organisation. You could allow staff to work flexible lunch times, and start and finish times to accommodate them using active travel to get to/from work. This policy could also include 'Work from home' or 'Telework' an arrangement whereby an employee has a formal agreement with their employer to work in a location other than the office, usually a home office. Develop a policy defining the conditions for teleworking at your office. Promote it to managers and employees, once you have ensured that IT system will enable teleworking.Points value: 60
Activity: Implement changes to parking policy
Implement changes to parking policy
Implement a new parking policy at your organisation, such as Charging a parking fee, reducing parking spaces, offering a cash-out option in exchange for a staff parking space, or establishing a Carpool specific parking space. Use the space for bike parking, or the revenue to fund your travel plan initiatives. Implementing a cost to park at the office may be tricky, but it can prove to be very effective in the long term in reducing costs and increasing staff health and wellbeing.Points value: 80
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Team building and training
Activity: Travel on Transperth for an excursion
Travel on Transperth for an excursion
Use Transperth to get you to your next excursion venue. Travelling on Transperth is a great way to explore your local community and beyond, all at a low cost. Taking students on public transport also presents a great teaching opportunity as students can learn through guidance how to safely and confidently navigate buses, trains and ferries. If you are planning an excursion and wanting to introduce your students to public transport, why not explore the possibility of using Transperth for your next outing. See our detailed resource for more information and see how the Transperth Education team can help you get moving. Let us know how your Transperth experience goes and don’t forget to include photos of your day out!Points value: 25
Activity: Handover to new Your Move champion
Handover to new Your Move champion
Changing role? Moving school or organisation? Organise a handover session with your schools new Your Move Champion before you leave. Let them know how the program works and help plan some simple steps to get them started. A good handover helps ensure Your Move continues to have a positive impact. Tips: - Invite them to join the website. - Discuss any upcoming events (e.g. Ride2School Day) - Show them the website and post a story together about your handover - Let the Your Move Team know.Points value: 40
Activity: Start a student team and have your first meeting
Start a student team and have your first meeting
Setting up a student team has been shown to help spread the workload while giving students a sense of ownership, leadership and responsibility. A student team can also assist to broaden the culture of walking and riding at your school. It's important to meet regularly with your team to talk about Your Move and your plan your activities. Set up each student as a 'Contributor' so that they can draft stories for the school - you will be able to manage and approve these before they are made public. Don't forget to write a story about it, link it to this activity and describe what you talked about and any plans that you have made. Check out our extensive resources list to read about some great activities you could try then write a story defining the top three or four activities you have planned. Find more information about starting a student team herePoints value: 60
Activity: Hold regular student team planning sessions
Hold regular student team planning sessions
It's important to meet regularly with your student team and other school champions to talk about Your Move and plan your attack. Tell us about what you talked about and any plans that you have made. Read more about creating a school team herePoints value: 10
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Infrastructure, facilities and fleet
Activity: Install bike racks
Install bike racks
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