Bicycle Network Victoria: Success stories
St. Albans Heights Primary School
Congratulations to St. Albans Heights Primary School for being rewarded with funds to improve their bike parking facilities. The school was rewarded for their commitment to promoting active travel through the Star rewards initiative.
The Student Representative Council (SRC) leads and promotes the Ride2School Program at St. Albans Heights.
The enthusiastic students collect the data from every class in the school and they make posters promoting walking and riding for each classroom. Each month the SRC group looks at the Hands Up! Data and identifies the classes with low results so they can then visit the class and motivate the students to ride and walk more. The classes with high numbers of active travellers are rewarded with stickers and certificates.
As a result of this ongoing student leadership, St. Albans Heights Primary boasts an active travel rate of just under 80 per cent, nearly four times the national average!
MLC for Western Metropolitan Region Bernie Finn presenting a sign for new bike parking to representatives of the Student Representative Council