Our school nurse spoke to each year 7 class during our Year 7 Transition Program that was held on the first three days of the new school year. The first half of the lesson was all about Act Belong Commit, a state-wide mental health promotion campaign designed and directed by Mentally Health WA to encourage people to take action to improve and protect their mental health and wellbeing. Students were then asked to make a pledge for themselves about how they are going to look after their own mental health.

The nurse used Act Belong Commit to introduce Your Move to the students. The students were shown the website and encouraged to go home a map out a route to school using the different modes of transport. The plan was to let the students map their own route using the Journey Planner but the IT devices let us down.

Students were then shown some of the Transperth videos explaining smart riders and how use them. We used the opportunity to talk about joining the Your Move student team.

It was great to see a number of students were already riding to school.

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Johanna

Hi Sue, did the activity include getting the students to travel independently? We can add some more points if this is the case. Otherwise, there are 15 points for the active travel class activity and 10 for the story. 😊

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Sue

Hi Johanna, I certainly encourage every student to come to school all or part of the way by foot, bike, scooter or public transport. Normally I get them all to map their journey from home to school using the Your Move journey planner but IT issues stopped us doing this. I did encourage them to go home and do it on their home computer, Ipad or mobile.

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James (Your Move)

Hi Sue - are you Super Nurse or something 😁? How wonderful that you are doing YM at both schools!

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Johanna

Thanks Sue! Really super skill building. 😊

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