Cycling gets young hearts racing
A ‘love your bike’ day is being held at The Pippins School in Slough
Who: Teachers and pupils from The Pippins School, Sustrans Bike It Officer, Clare Robinson.
What: A ‘love your bike’ day is being held at The Pippins School in Slough; a cycle-filled fun day, where the whole school will be involved in different activities to show their dedication to cycling.
Where: The Pippins School, Raymond Close, Rodney Way, Colnbrook, Slough
When: Thursday 11th February, from 8.15am.
With Valentines Day just around the corner, The Pippins School in Slough is holding a ‘love your bike’ day on Thursday 11th February, to show just how much its pupils love cycling.
Sustainable transport charity, Sustrans, has helped to organise the cycle-filled fun day, which kicks off with a ‘bike breakfast’; a free, healthy breakfast for all children, parents, siblings and staff that cycle to school.
Once the children have finished their energy filled breakfast, the fun really begins: younger children will be baking bike biscuits, whilst some of the older children will learn cycle skills in the play ground and write cycling haikus. Children aged between nine and 11 will get the chance to learn some key bike maintenance skills after school. All pupils will get a chance to fill in worksheets to learn more about loving their body and keeping their hearts healthy.
Clare Robinson, the school’s Sustrans Bike It Officer, comments: “The love your bike day is a great way to get children thinking about how to look after their bikes, and their bodies, and how to stay healthy. It’s a fun filled day which the children are really excited about.
"The children at this school are already dedicated to cycling; we see many of them coming in by bike even when it’s wet and windy.”
Before Sustrans began working with the school, in partnership with Slough Borough Council in September 2009, nearly three quarters of children had never cycled to school. Now children regularly pedal the school run, with 32 pupils cycling to school on one day in November 2009.
Further information about Sustrans and Bike It, including other news releases, is available through our website: www.sustrans.org.uk
Published by: Travel Actively on Thursday February 11 2010
