At Ride2School, We Love Helping Schools!
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One way to get more students interested in active travel is to become part of our Coach School Program. Schools receive monthly visits from a Ride2School Coordinator with the aim of supporting you to get more students riding and walking more often.
What is a coach school?
A school which receives hands on assistance from a Schools Coordinator to get their Ride2School Program going. Ideas and resources are given and links are forged within the community. Our program gives priority to disadvantaged schools.
What the Ride 2 School Team can offer:
- Regular booked visits to your school to meet with staff and students.
- Guidance, support and expertise in getting more students riding and walking more often.
- Assistance with developing Quiet Neighbourhood Routes to school and improving pedestrian infrastructure/liason with local councils.
- Assembly presentations about the benefits of active travel.
- A teacher trained in Bike Education (normally costs $242)
- Friendly and helpful trained Bike Ed Volunteers and/or Ride2School staff for cycling activities.
- Incentives for active travel including t-shirts, lanyards, drink bottles, posters and stickers and a bike pump for each school.
- Support and assistance in obtaining reconditioned bikes for your school.
- Access to our networks and resources.
- We send out regular newsletters, funding advice, competitions.
- Assistance with: forming a bike club, bike shed building, planning a Ride2School Day, frequent rider passports, and lots more!
What we ask for in return:
- A commitment to the program from School Council and the Principal.
- Completion of the Hands Up surveys every month.
- A school coordinator with the time and energy to implement the program on the ground.
- A willingness to trial and implement the physical and social infrastructure elements of the program.
- Participation in an event in for example Ride2Work Day, Walk and Wheel-A-Thon or the annual Ride2School Day event in March.
Ride2School is seeking expressions of interest from government primary and secondary schools who would like to be part of the FREE coach school program in 2009. If you would like to know more, contact Ride2School today.