What is the Get Kids Active program?
Active kids are happy, healthy and curious kids. Moving more and spending time outdoors helps growing kids to stay happy, healthy and switched on at school.
The Get Kids Active program is all about making it safer, easier and more fun for kids to walk and ride to and from school.
The school run can be an adventure. It's a chance to leave the car at home and enjoy a relaxing walk, with time to talk or go on a fun bike ride and burn up some energy!
Walking or riding together also helps parents and carers talk about road safety, reduce traffic congestion and is a greener choice for you, your family and the community.
What we're doing to help school kids get active
The Get Kids Active program will help make neighbourhoods friendlier for young pedestrians and riders. Find out more about how the program is being delivered.
Street improvements around schools for walking and riding
We're funding projects to help improve local streets with new or upgraded footpaths, bike paths and pedestrian crossings.
Amenities for walking and riding at schools
We're providing funding for more school amenities such as bike and scooter racks, as well as repair stations on school grounds.
Encouraging walking and riding to and from school
We asked NSW parents and carers what we can deliver to help them walk or ride to school more often, such as resources for families and bike skills education for kids.
Connecting with Country
Country encompasses everything – the landscape, skies, waters, plants, animals, and the ancestral people who shaped the land we live on. For Aboriginal Peoples, Country is the source of identity, culture, language, and traditions.
By connecting with Country through the Get Kids Active program, we’re committed to supporting the safety, health and wellbeing of Aboriginal people and communities in and around local schools. If we care for Country – it will care for us.
Resources will be available here soon to help celebrate and respect Country, starting with the journey to and from school.
About the Get Kids Active program
Hear from Jo Haylen, Minister for Transport, about why encouraging NSW parents, carers and kids to walk or ride to and from school is so important.