Why is active travel important?
Encouraging children to walk, ride, scoot or skate to school helps them build physical activity into their day. However, the health benefit is not limited to just a child’s physical health, it also supports overall wellbeing and the creation of lifelong healthy habits.
Other wellbeing benefits include:
- Building confidence: children learn important skills such as road safety and awareness of their surroundings. This can help promote independence and resilience.
- Boosts energy levels: increasing children’s activity levels can help generate positive learning outcomes such as improved concentration in the classroom.
- Being social: active travel is a great opportunity for children to have fun and to socialise with other children or their family.
- Connecting with the neighbourhood: by exploring local routes to school, children become familiar with their local neighbourhood and can connect with the world around them
Live too far away from the school to actively travel? Remember part of the way is ok!Common feedback from both students and parents in Latrobe was that families live too far away from the school to actively travel the whole distance. Why not drive part of the way, park the car and allow your children to walk or ride the remaining way to school? Keep an eye out for Park and Walk zones that are being developed around Latrobe. These Park and Walk zones are clearly signed and allow a safe place for you to park the car and walk or ride safely to school. Active travel maps for each schoolWould you like your school to be involved in the Stroll & Roll program?The Stroll and Roll flyer has all the information the school needs to know about the program. Spread the word today!
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