Travel Club

Students simply use the Travel Club course and cards to travel as far as they can in a week, month or term. Goals are many and varied but the Travel Club is 'self-challenging" and a great way to get students active on a regular basis.

Travel Club can be used:

  • before school or break times
  • in conjunction with Daily PE
  • as a reward
  • in between classroom tasks
  • in conjunction with 0ther subjects
  • for personal bests and class competitions
  • combined with a once a year "Lap-a-thon" fundraiser

4 x easy steps to introducing a Travel Club at your school

  1. Identify a visible 500m course at your school, naming it the Travel Club 'lap'; An oval or playground perimeter is often best, using permanent landmarks / trees / equipment.
  2. Initially walk all students around your 500m course. This could be done as part of Daily PE or within a PE or classroom lesson. Some schools also draw a map of their Travel Club and display it in classrooms.
  3. Print off Travel Club cards and distribute to all classes. Teachers might like to keep these together at a central location or students keep them. Students mark off laps as they complete them.
  4. Get travelling! It is that easy!!

More ideas

  • Create some rewards for personal bests (we can supply some stickers for you to get started with!)
  • Students could colour code their cards for walking/jogging/running.
  • Invite parents and family members to join in before school.
  • Duty teachers might also like to join in on the fun
  • Have some fun class competitions
  • Travel Club can be combined and/or timetabled with DPE
  • One Travel Club lap might be a good warm up for some classes in PE

Read below how Lauderdale Primary School extended their Travel Club lap to form a Lap-a-thon lap and conduct an active, successful and enjoyable fundraiser.

A Travel Club success story

Lauderdale Primary School extended their 500m Travel Club lap to create a 1km
lap for their annual whole school "Lap-a-thon".

  • They simply added an additional 500m to the course for the day.
  • A date was chosen and the fundraiser publicised to parents through the Newsletter.
  • Students collected donations and sponsors for the number of 'laps' they could complete in one hour.
  • The P & F donated prizes for all sorts of divisions.
  • Parents, families and community members were invited to join in.
  • Staff, were positioned at various checkpoints around the 1km course.
  • Students ran or walked with a Lap-a-thon card and had each lap recorded at a start/finish checkpoint.