Tag On

Riding or walking to school is an easy way for children of all ages to meet the recommended minimum daily requirement of 60 minutes of physical activity. Active children are less likely to be overweight and are at a reduced risk of developing diseases. They arrive at school awake, alert and ready to learn.

Active travel to school allows children to be independent, improves their spatial awareness and knowledge of road rules and safety. Whether they actively travel with their family or their friends, they have an opportunity to become more socially connected.

How it works:

Tag On consists of a kiosk with a touch screen monitor and data transfer (RFID) reader. Students are provided with their own data tag, which they use each day to ‘tag on’ at the kiosk.

As students arrive at school, they ‘tag on’ at the kiosk and use the touch screen to select how they travelled to school: walk, ride, car or public transport.

Each time students use the system, they earn Individual and House Active Travel Points. The kiosk displays real-time individual and house active travel tally boards at every tag on.

Parents receive an email when the student tags on, acknowledging that their child has arrived safely.

Tag On can send an email or SMS notification to parents when their child tags on at school. This reassures parents that their child has arrived safely.

The Tag On program enables schools to automatically collect daily data on how their students are travelling to school. Tag On’s reporting suite allows schools to evaluate the effectiveness of their active travel initiatives, as well as providing data that can be used to form the basis of lesson plans and student led initiatives.

Stonnington Council are partnering with Tag On to support the program in our school. As part of their Walking Action Plan, they will use real time data to measure the effectiveness of changes they make to encourage active transport in the area. The data collected is completely anonymous, and this program has been successfully implemented in other local council areas.

This program is an ‘opt-in’, and a permission form will be sent out on Monday via Operoo. If you would like your children to participate, simply accept the permission form from Monday.