Active School Travel

About Our Commitment to Active Travel

St Joseph's College has been awarded official active travel school status by the City of Gold Coast. This means we are committed to working with families and our broader school community to support our children in taking active forms of travel to and from school—such as walking, riding a bike or scooter, catching the bus or carpooling.

Good things happen when school communities active travel. Empowered children travel safely to and from school, help the environment, feel part of a community and have fun.

What is active school travel?

The City of Gold Coast runs the Active School Travel (AST) program for Gold Coast schools. Schools that are officially invited to join the program receive resources including a suite of free toolkits, incentives and support to enable students, parents, carers and teachers to:

re-mode – swap the car for walking, wheeling and public transport
reduce car trips by carpooling or combining trips
re-route – take a slightly different route to avoid congested roads
re-time school - related trips–consider dropping children earlier or picking them up later.

To discover why Active School Travel is the way to go, we invite you to visit the Active School Travel | City of Gold Coast website.

How to be an Active Travel Family

You can become an active travel family by changing the way you move to and from school. The following modes count as active school travel:

Walking
If you live too far away, drive part of the way and walk the rest. We call that 'park and stride'.

Wheeling
Riding a bike with your children helps them get to school quickly, be active and develop lifelong riding skills. It's fun and fast to scooter or skateboard to school. Just like when riding a bike, stick to the footpath and wear a helmet.

Carpooling
If you have to drive, try carpooling with another family to help reduce the number of cars at the school gate.

Catching public transport
For more information on catching the bus, visit the Translink Journey Planner

:Join our weekly active travel day
You don't have to change the way you travel every day of the week – just one day a week can make a difference.
As an AST school, we have nominated Wednesday for our weekly active travel day!
Meet us for Walk & Wheel Wednesday's - see details below!
We'd love to see as many families in our school community picking active travel as the way to go on this day.

Talk to your children
Have conversations with your children about road safety and the active travel events being held at school,

Walk & Wheel Wednesdays!

Walk to school with us on Wednesdays! Meet us at Lysaght Dr park from 7:50am for an 8:00am walk. Don't forget your bag tag to earn amazing prizes!

We provide a FREE healthy breakfast on one Walk & Wheel Wednesday every term!

Once students have received 10 hole punches, they can put their labelled bag tag (name and class) in the Active School Travel box at student reception for a chance to win a prize at the last assembly of each term!

Maps

To help plan your active travel, here's a printable map of the area around St Joseph's College Coomera.

Support

The City of Gold Coast supports our active travel community at no cost to our school. Because we have been awarded official active travel school status, we receive free receive resources, including a suite of toolkits, incentives and support to enable students, parents, carers and teachers to actively travel.

Please visit https://www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/Services/Roads-transport-parking/Active-travel/Active-School-Travel for more information.