It’s Your Move Safe Cycle


It’s Your Move Safe Cycle program

The It’s Your Move Safe Cycle program supports schools to increase walking and riding to school. It provides strategies to build awareness and participation in active travel. The program is aligned to the Australian curriculum.

Walking or riding to school is an easy way to a establish a healthy routine. It also helps build self-confidence and independence as well as improved concentration.

The program includes:

Bike bookings

There are sets of loan bikes available for schools to borrow through the Ride or Walk to School and It's Your Move Safe Cycle programs. Bikes are available for both primary and high schools to support the delivery of the Safe Cycle curriculum and they are free and easy to book.

Email the School Safety Program with your preferred booking dates and they will manage the booking for you, including the delivery and collection of the bikes.

Downloadable material

Online training for teachers

The It's Your Move Safe Cycle course for teachers should take approximately one hour to complete. Once you have completed the course, please complete and return the final survey to tccs.schoolsafety@act.gov.au.

Videos

Below are links to some useful videos you may wish to share with your students.

Events

This Ride or Walk to School program provides ACT schools with access to Australian curriculum aligned resources to teach safe cycling, teacher training and student and parental materials to encourage school communities to embrace active travel options. Programs are available for both primary and high schools.

National ride 2 school day banner

National Ride2School Day

National Ride2School Day is Australia’s biggest celebration of active travel and one of the best days on the school calendar. It is a day full of fun and colour where students, teachers and parents discover the joy of riding and kick-start healthy habits for the future.

Ride2School Day is an initiative of the Bicycle Network of Australia where children are encouraged to ride to school. It is national event held in Term 1 of the school calendar year.

The School Safety Program works to support the Bicycle Network by promoting and coordinating events with schools in the ACT.

Promotional material and support resources are available from the Bicycle Network webpage

National Ride2School Day | Bicycle Network.

For more information, contact the School Safety Program.

Walk Safely to School Day - Friday 10 May 2024

Walk Safely to School Day is a day to encourage students and their parents/carers to walk safely to school. It is an opportunity to teach children valuable road safety skills and embrace active travel.

Walk Safely to School Day is an initiative of the Pedestrian Council of Australia (PCA) and occurs in school term 2 each year.

The School Safety Program works to support the PCA by promoting and coordinating events with schools in the ACT.

Promotional materials and resources are available from the PEC and schools are encouraged to contact them via their webpage Walk Safely to School Day.

Learn more about travelling safely to school.

Walk safely to school day logo

Winter Walk to School Week

Winter Walk to School Week is an ACT Government initiative to encourage school students to walk safely to school during the cooler months. It occurs in term 3 each school year and is promoted by the School Safety Program within Transport Canberra and City Services.

Throughout the week, schools are encouraged to promote active travel. This might include promotion of Active Travel Tracker cards,  which can be used to entice students to walk more regularly by stamping their tracker card each time they use active travel for their journey to and from school. This is a good way schools can track and acknowledge students who regularly use active travel. The School Safety Program is available to provide resources, logistical assistance and support to schools in the ACT.

For more information, contact the School Safety Program.

Learn more about travelling safely to school.

winter walk to school day logo

Ride Safely to School Week

Ride Safely to School Week is an ACT Government initiative to encourage primary school students to ride, scoot or walk safely to school. It occurs in term 4 of the school year and is promoted by the School Safety Program within Transport Canberra and City Services.

Leading up to the week, schools are encouraged to ramp up bike safety and skills by implementing the Ride or Walk to School program and resources.

Throughout the week, students are encouraged to ride or use active travel to get to and from school each day. During the week, schools are encouraged to host an event for students, parents, carers and the community, to promote riding safely to school.

The School Safety Program can assist in providing promotional materials, resources and coordinating an event to meet the needs of each school.

Some ideas schools may wish to consider include:

  • Engaging an ACT Cycling peak body to run an activity/station workshop for kids on bikes who ride to school.
  • Working with the Parents and Citizens to host an egg and bacon sausage sizzle fundraiser.
  • Organising a coffee cart to be at school on arrival for parents and carers.
  • Using the school PA system to play music and give out ‘bubble’ wands to kids arriving to school on foot or wheels.
  • Requesting a fruit donation from the local grocery store for a healthy breakfast.
  • Running a competition – bike decoration/helmet decoration.
  • Running a raffle with prizes donated by TCCS or local bike shops.
  • Asking ACT Police/Constable Kenny to attend and speak with kids and parents about road safety.
  • Engaging a local bike shop to set up a space and talk to interested kids and parents about bike maintenance.
  • Setting up witches hats on the playground to invite kids who rode to school to cycle through the course.
  • Inviting a cycling ‘personality’ to attend the morning and engage with the community.

For more information, contact the School Safety Program.

Learn more about travelling safely to school.

Winter walk to school day logo

Contact us

Email the School Safety Program for more information and resources.

We acknowledge the Ngunnawal people as traditional custodians of the ACT and recognise any other people or families with connection to the lands of the ACT and region. We acknowledge and respect their continuing culture and the contribution they make to the life of this city and this region.

To see how we are building stronger relationships with the Traditional Custodians of the ACT view the Reconciliation Action Plan.