Active travel to school

These active ways to travel to school:

• reduce traffic congestion
• improve safety at drop-off and pick-up zones
• help the environment
• encourage students to arrive alert and ready to learn
• ensure that students build physical activity into their day.

Active Paths

The Active Paths program improves the experience for students who want to walk or ride to school. Council is working with local schools and Bicycle Network to identify safe and direct routes to local schools.

Participating schools include:

• Bentleigh West Primary School
• Caulfield Primary School
• Murrumbeena Primary School

Keep your eyes peeled for the colourful footpath decals which will help guide students safely on their way to school.

The participating schools are serious about making active travel to and from school safe, easy and fun, and have worked with us and Bicycle Network’s “Ride2School” program to create colourful, active travel maps.

Download the maps:

• Bentleigh West Primary School — Thomas Street path, Centre Road path, Brewer Road Path and Patterson Road path
• Caulfield Primary School — Library path, Princes Park path and Hopetoun Gardens path
• Murrumbeena Primary School — Urban Forest path, Blackwood path, Railway path and Boyd path

School crossing supervisors

We manage the placement of school crossing supervisors throughout Glen Eira.

They play a vital role in keeping children safe on their journey to and from school. School crossing supervisors are stationed at 73 school crossings in Glen Eira, including traffic lights, pedestrian lights and flag crossings.

Glen Eira’s school crossing supervisors help children from 38 primary and secondary schools across the municipality stay safe on their way to school and home again.

Active Schools — Go for Gold

More than 6,500 students from 15 local schools walked, rode or scooted to school last October as part of our Active Schools — Go for Gold program 2023.

We thank the following participating schools for being a part of our Active Schools — Go for Gold program in 2023:

Bentleigh West Primary, Carnegie Primary, Caulfield Junior College, Caulfield Primary, Caulfield South Primary, Coatesville Primary, East Bentleigh Primary, Japanese School of Melbourne, McKinnon Primary, Murrumbeena Primary, Ormond Primary, Ripponlea Primary,  St Anthony’s Primary, St Joseph’s Primary and St Paul’s Primary.

Open Streets

A Bentleigh school drop-off and pick-up zone was temporarily transformed into a vibrant activity hub as part of Glen Eira’s first Open Streets in April and May 2024.

The trial received positive feedback, with nearly 78 per cent of respondents expressing interest in regular Open Streets events, and 76 per cent stating they were very satisfied with the trials.

Open Streets aims to foster a culture of active commuting and physical exercise for students and their families, and aligns with our vision for a city of child-friendly neighbourhoods.

Active travel helps to reduce car usage, traffic congestion and emissions. It also makes our roads safer.

The program already runs in Brunswick, Malvern East, Footscray and other metropolitan suburbs and, thanks to a collaboration between Bicycle Network and Bentleigh West Primary School, has made its way to Glen Eira.

For those interested in learning more about Open Streets, visit Bicycle Network’s website at bicyclenetwork.com.au