Thursday 28 July 2022
GRANTS TO KICK-START ACTIVE KIDS AT ACTIVE SCHOOLS
The Andrews Labor Government is helping more kids in our region to get active, and is fostering the talents of Victoria’s future sports stars, with more support for schools to offer exciting sports programs and encourage physical activity.
Member for Buninyong Michaela Settle today announced that Woodmans Hill Secondary College is among 96 schools to receive an Active Schools grant this year – part of the Labor Government’s $45.4 million initiative to give Victorian kids the skills, confidence, and motivation to be active for life.
Woodmans Hill Secondary College have received $47,958 in Active School Grant funding to support the implementation of a whole-school approach to improving student physical activity. This includes support with the costs of physical education, sport, and outdoor education, as well as to assist with providing extracurricular physical activity opportunities.
The Labor Government has also announced more than $641,000 for new ‘innovative behaviour’ trials in some Victorian government schools, which will test the most effective ways to encourage adolescents to do more physical activity and maintain healthy habits for life.
Regional Arts Victoria is one of four organisations to successfully secure a grant across three key areas – quality school sport, active travel, and active recreation – to help address declining physical activity rates among secondary school students through their Circus Active program.
Other sporting and community organisations who will be supported to do this research include Victorian YMCA Community Programming (Quality School Sport), Cancer Council Victoria (Active Travel) and GippSport Inc (Active Recreation).
As part of the Active Schools initiative, the Labor Government earlier this year launched Get Your Move On, a campaign encouraging young people aged 5 to 18 years to get 15 minutes of physical activity, four times a day.
The Victorian Budget 2022/23 invested more than $20.8 million to boost the Active Schools program and promote long-term health and wellbeing in generations of young Victorians to come.
Quote attributable to Member for Buninyong Michaela Settle
“We know that regular physical activity makes a huge difference to young people’s mental and physical health as well as their educational outcomes - I want to congratulate everyone at Woodmans Hill for their work to keep young Victorians active, fit and healthy.”
