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Here's an  example of our Bikeability cycle training delivery within Tameside

Cycling Skills Blossom at Flowery Field Primary School - Posted 1st Oct 2010

After seeing 18 of their pupils savour the lessons of Bikeability training, senior staff at Flowery Field Primary School are keen to see further cycle safety courses implemented at the Manchester school.

As part of an ongoing arrangement with Tameside Council, British Cycling’s qualified instructors were invited by the school to put 18 Year five and six pupils through their paces recently and the experience has been described as “win-win” by the school’s Assistant Head teacher, Alvin Fell.  

Bikeability is ‘cycling proficiency’ for the 21st century, designed to give the next generation the skills and confidence to ride their bikes safely on today’s roads in a practical, informative and fun way.

For Fell, the experience was not only beneficial to the children's knowledge of road safety, but also brought a buoyant attitude for the school and its pupils.

 “It’s a win-win as far as I’m concerned,” he told British Cycling.

“The kids were all really positive. At play-time the kids were asking ‘when are we going out on our bikes.’ They were delighted to think they achieved all the Level 1 work in a day and then got out to work on the road work. There was a real buzz about the place.

“Because it was all done while they were outside with a bike, it was interactive and engaging for them.”

Over a period of four days, instructors visited the school for a total of 2.5 hours and actively educated pupils through the lessons of Level 1 Bikeability, which aims to strengthen basic cycle control skills including starting and pedalling; stopping; manoeuvring; signalling and using gears.

The training starts in the playground before moving onto the open road to give practical instruction within a safe, organised and controlled environment.

And it was a motivation to instil these lifelong lessons into pupils that persuaded Flowery Field School to take part as Fell explains.

“The reason for doing the Bikeability training was I am aware that children ride their bikes freely around here,” he added. “This is an area where it’s easy to get about on bikes and children do use bikes but always as supervised by adults as we would perhaps like.

“Although children have bikes, they don’t always have helmets and they don’t always have people who take an active and pro-active input into them riding them safely.

 “Now, Children who were on the course do cycle to school and those children are cycling to school having had some cycling safety training so that can only be a good thing.

 “It also gives the children the chance to do something that is useful and have some success and achieve something.”

Such has been the positive impact, Bikeability instructors are now set to return to the school in October to teach a further 12 pupils to values of cycle safety.