Talk N Walk App and Supporting Resources

Officially launched in October 2022 at the Telethon Family Weekend, the Talk N Walk app and program now features resources to support schools and community groups.

A photograph of the Nature Play WA booth at Telethon Family Weekend 2022. The booth features three pull up banners, an A frame display sign and a table with promotional material on it. Katherine Healy and Kellie Hill are seen in the middle of the image, wearing white tee-shirts with the green Nature Play WA logo printed on them.

Our partnership with the Department of Transport Your Move Program has resulted in partnership with many schools across Western Australia. Some examples of the great Talk N Walk to School Day events and activities run by schools are outlined below:

Coolbinia Primary School

Our Year 4 Your Move team organised a Talk N Walk event. They prepared various forms of promotion – feet posters, feet stencils, PA announcements, items in the School Bulletin for parents and a staff PL. On the event day they greeted students at the school gates with giveaways promoting Talk N Walk.

Coolbinia PS Talk N Walk footpath

As one parent commented as she left the school, “The Talk N Walk app was a great success. It stimulated conversation all the way to school this morning.”

Coolbinia Primary School Talk N Walk to School feet art

Read more about Coolibinia Primary School’s Talk N Walk to School on the Your Move website.

Cue Primary School

Walking around the entire town to collect our students is such a positive start to the day. Best thing as a teacher, is the chance to find out my student’s mind set and debrief them or make considerations for them to get through their day.

Photograph of Cue Primary School students, doing a Talk N Walk to school. The streetscape shows red dirt beside the asphalt road, with the students and parents in the mid-ground of the photograph, and a multi trailer road train in the background. Behind the road train are large, gum trees and a clear blue sky.
Cue Primary School’s students and parents at their Talk N Walk to School event.

Eneabba Primary School

The Chaplain and the school principal walked laps of the oval in two separate groups, inviting all students to join. We then read the cards and scaffolded conversation around these ideas.

Eden Hill OSHC

We are an OSHC located close to a primary school so we chose to walk in groups to school that day rather than taking our usual buses. Before leaving we got the chalk out and had a discussion about how we were feeling that day and drew pictures to express these feelings. On our walk we chatted about what we were most looking forward to that day, how our morning was and our current feelings.

 Tuart Hill Primary School

We held a Student Leader lead Talk N Walk. We designated four destination points to start from, and gave out Your Move slap bands to anyone that participated. The turn out was amazing, and the feedback was very positive too.

The turnout was so impressive from the Northside that our amazing lollypop man, Lester, stopped traffic on an adjacent intersection, to help the kids across.

Read more about Tuart Hill Primary School’s Talk N Walk to School on the Your Move website.

Want to Know More?

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Talk N Walk to School
  • Talk N Walk card sample
  • photograph of girls legs, from the waist down, walking to the left of the photograph. From left to right the girls are wearing: girl 1: pink and blue oversized shirt, cream coloured wide-leg pants and white sneakers, girl 2: olive green shorts, pink and maroon checked shirt tied around her waist, hot pink coloured Converse sneakers, and she has friendship bracelets around her left wrist, and one on each ankle, girl 3: light blue jumper, denim shorts and white sneakers, girl 4 and 5: light grey tracksuit pants and white sneakers.
  • Tuart Hill PS Talk N Walk
  • A group of ten girls aged 10 to 13 walking towards camera, on a cement path. They are talking, smiling and laughing as they join in a group conversation. There are tall gum trees along the sides of the path and in the background.
  • Kids and Mum Walk to School 98five website