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Rediscover the fun of active transportation for fitness and the environment
Kids learn to walk long before they master the alphabet. So walking or cycling to school should be child’s play! And should be encouraged: kids who walk or bike to school get used to exercising every day. Yet less than four out of ten students in Greater Montréal rely on active transportation - walking, cycling or in-line skating - to get to school.
To help reverse the trend toward greater inactivity among children in Québec and to reduce the use of the family car as a school shuttle, Vélo Québec launched the “On the move to school!” program in October 2005. At the time, eight Montreal area schools were on board.
 Since the beginning of the 2008-2009 school year, 75 schools – over 25 000 students in six regions of Québec! – are part in the program. By 2015, “On the move to school” will be deployed across Québec.
Whether or not your child’s school is participating in the program, we encourage you to browse through this section, which provides tools designed to get things moving at school.
We are well aware that changing habits takes effort, but encouraging active transportation is an essential effort that will benefit you and your family. And you can count on having some fun too!
»» To know more, you can download our information flyer, distributed to parents of students in our participating schools.
 On the move to school! : resource guide
If you are motivated and want to get involved in implanting up active and safe transportation for your school’s children, the On the Move to School program guide is the perfect tool to get started.
You will find advice, tools, examples and ways to go about getting your community involved into setting in place an approach that will have long lasting benefits for the kids and the school’s environment.
It is simple, proven to be extremely effective and flexible enough to be adapted to you specifics needs and reality.
 ![]() Download the pdf document
Want to learn more about On the move to school ! ? Click here to access information provided to the parents of the children attending the eight schools taking part in the 2005-2006 pilot project. |
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