IT WAS all wheels on deck on Friday with the ninth annual Ride2School Day in full swing.
Falcon Primary School students rode their bikes, scooters, skateboards or walked to school to take part in the event, which aims to get children to be more active.
The school held a raffle two for Mandurah Cycles gift vouchers and any student who took an active route to school were entered.
There was also some friendly competition between classes to see which would have the highest percentage of students taking part in the event.
Falcon assistant principal Adrian Perry said he was pleased to see so many students patricipate in Ride2School Day.
“It’s good to see the kids getting active and hopefully this will create more interest in walking or riding to school,” he said.
Mr Perry said the school had its TravelSmart program in place all year, which promotes healthy, safe travel choices for schools, students and parents.
Falcon has previously held a “walking bus” event, in which students gathered in supervised groups to walk to school from different areas of the suburb.
More than 300,000 students across the nation took part in Ride2School Day.
Bicycling Western Australia chief Jeremey Murray said the day was an opportunity to show teachers, parents and students that choosing an active form of transport could be accessible and fun.
“The trend over the last 40 years indicates that children are less and less active, with 80 per cent of school-aged children in the 1970s either walking or riding to school,” he said.
“Today only 20 per cent of children take an active form of transport to school.”
