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Introducing a new VicHealth resource, Active for Life, brings together Australian and international research to challenge our current thinking and help decision makers identify changes we can all make to influence how much our children move each day.
Active for Life is an evidence-based resource to help better understand the challenges around children's physical activity, and inspire better practice to integrate more movement in children's daily lives.
This publication summarises the findings from the evaluation of the Out of School Hours Sports Program. The evaluation was undertaken by the School of Human Movement and Sport Sciences at the University of Ballarat in 2005.
What do the leading researchers think? What does the latest research tell us about children and physical activity? What input can children have to influence their own environment? And what role can parents and families play?
This year, 60,000 kids walked, skated, scooted, skipped, cycled and even rode horses to school for fun and fitness on October 19.
Victorian families are invited to join thousands of kids, parents and teachers, who will make walking a crucial part of their journey to school every day during November.
Nine Victorian schools will receive $1000 of sports gear and the title of the state's best walkers, for securing the top spot in VicHealth's Walk to School competition.
Motorists have been urged to take extra care on the roads, as more than 70,000 primary school children from 370 schools across Victoria will be out and about.
A two-year study has revealed the final years of primary school are critical for developing children’s confidence and independence to travel without their parents in their communities.
VicHealth is calling on Victorian families to limber up and walk (or scoot, ride or roll!) to and from school every day in October.
Melbourne City FC has joined forces with VicHealth to encourage school children across Victoria to take part in the 2014 Walk to School campaign.
Primary school children who took part in VicHealth’s Walk to School campaign during October have walked a combined 241,115 kilometres – six times around the circumference of the Earth.