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Active Schools

Active Schools aims to ensure that all Victorian students have the skills, confidence and motivation to be active in life.

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The $87.8 million Active Schools initiative builds on existing programs and funding to boost support and resources for schools to get students moving. It includes:

What is an active school?

An active school encourages physical activity beyond traditional physical education and sport and promotes physical activity at every opportunity throughout the school day - before, during and after school.

An active school takes a whole-school approach to get students moving and:

Benefits of becoming an active school

There is a wealth of evidence supporting the role schools play in promoting physical activity. Creating an environment where movement is a natural part of the school day leads to wide-ranging benefits including improvements in:

Building an active school

The Active Schools framework recognises there is no single solution to encouraging students to be more active. It takes a whole-school approach and system-wide effort to make physical activity part of the school culture. An active school provides students with opportunities to be active through the 6 key priority areas of the Active Schools framework:

These areas work together – the broader the approach, the greater the impact. Many schools are already taking action in some of these areas. The Active Schools toolkit builds on those efforts and provides guidance and practical strategies to create more opportunities for students to be active every day.

Active Schools framework

An Active School goes beyond traditional physical education and sport to ensures it provides students opportunities to be active through the six priority areas outlined in the Active Schools Framework.

Support and resources

Active Schools toolkit

Guidance, practical strategies and resources that school staff can use to get students moving.

Active Schools funding and Expert Support Services

Information on the Active Schools funding and Expert Support Services.

Active Schools resources and case studies

A range of resources available to support schools.

Joint Ministerial Statement

A Joint Ministerial Statement on Physical Activity for Children and Young People between the Ministers for Education, Community Sport and Health sets out how schools, in partnership with families and the community, can set our children on a physical activity path for life, including through the Active Schools framework.

Download the Joint Ministerial Statement:

Get Active Kids voucher program

To help support lower-income families with the costs of participation in sport and active recreation activities, the Get Active Kids program delivers $200 vouchers annually for more than 100,000 eligible Victorian children.

The program is managed by Sport and Recreation Victoria within the Department of Jobs, Skills, Industry and Regions (DJSIR). For further information, visit the Get Active Victoria website or contact Sport and Recreation Victoria by:

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Updated 26 March 2026

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