Active Skills Hub
Supporting Lincolnshire's sport & physical activity workforce
Street Tag for Schools
Find out more about Street Tag for Schools in Lincolnshire.
Street Tag brings together children and families at Schools, and School staff to be physically active, by turning their streets into a virtual playground, to increase their outdoor experience in walking, running and cycling more to earn rewards.
During the Street Tag experience, participants record the distance they have walked, run or cycled by scanning virtual tags with their smartphone at various locations, watching their total distance accumulate to climb up on the Schools leaderboard. All that is needed to take part is the free Street Tag app.
Benefits of the initiative include:
- Increased levels of physical activity for children and their families, with the benefits to improving health this brings
- A reduction in the number of local trips/journeys made by car
- An increase in the number of trips and distances travelled by bike and foot among residents both travelling to school and outside of school
- Increased social interaction and community cohesion
- Children and families rediscover their local area and connect with local green spaces
How Does It Work?
Watch the video to hear Greg Brown from Active Lincolnshire explain how Street Tag works.
- Virtual tags are placed in popular walking routes and green space to encourage activity
- Users walk, run or cycle to virtual tags which are placed on the app's interface
- Tags are worth and average 50 points per tag. Once users are near they player receives the points which helps the school to move up the leaderboard (see below)
- At the end of the leaderboard seasons (resets every 12 -14 weeks) the top 3 or more School PTA's are given performance bonus prizes. There are various other prizes for parents and children during the leaderboard seasons.
Leaderboards
The Street Tag competition works over several weeks which are called seasons. Schools participating in Street Tag can compete with other schools in their district to gather as many points as possible to be crowned the winner of their district leaderboard. The winning school for each district will be awarded with a £100 prize.
Season 2: East Lindsey, West Lindsey, Boston and the City of Lincoln - 1 December 2023 - 14 March 2024
Season 1: South Holland, North Kesteven and South Kesteven - 19th January - 14th March 2024
Download This Street Tag for Schools Document for more detailed information on how Street Tag for Schools works, or follow the links below.
You can also get in touch with Greg Brown, Children & Young People Lead at Active Lincolnshire to find out more about the programme in Lincolnshire.
Sign Up
Register your school to be involved in Street Tag
