Cycling for Schools : Cycle to School with Get Cycling

Active Education for Schools

Activity Challenges

• Active education and fun
• Wide selection of fascinating try-out bikes
• Awareness of cycling for health and the environment
• Dynamo Activity Challenge

Get Cycling Activity Day (GCAD)

Our Get Cycling Activity Day is an exciting and memorable day of learning and bike try-out fun, with different versions for primary or secondary pupils.

A typical day includes a lively assembly presentation featuring a dramatic, educational treatment of the main issues: cycling for health, fun, practicality and the environment. We also cover the wonders of cycle technology. This includes our toe-tapping 12-minute video on cycling, or a cycle maintenance demo for older children.

This is followed by a chance for pupils (in groups of 25 to 35) to get active on the wide selection of our very unusual bikes: an unforgettable cycling experience for up to 350 pupils per day.

Occasionally we set up our schools roadshow in a park, or at a single school for a day, and groups are timetabled to come to us from a number of local schools.

Also successful is a family bike try-out roadshow in a local park on the weekend after we have been in local schools during the week. Having ridden our bikes for half an hour or so during their school day, pupils are motivated to take our leaflet home to parents, publicising the Saturday event, where they can all ride all day. We bring family cycling options (eg kiddie- and child-trailers, for parents to try-out.

Once you have identified the schools and given us the contact details, we pride ourselves on relating directly with the schools, taking the planning burden from you, but reporting regularly. We have been to almost a thousand schools, and know how they work!

Get Cycling to School Programme. (GCSP)

Our Cycling 50% Challenge encourages schoolchildren of appropriate age to cycle to school. The challenge is to cycle to school on at least 50% of school days during the challenge period. We provide bikes on loan and all the support required to get pupils safely underway. We include promotional visits, presentations and advice leaflets for parents.

You can include a fun bike try-out roadshow for all participants’ families on the day the bikes are returned, where feedback is gathered, and certificates presented. At the end of the scheme participants may be able to purchase their loan bike at a considerable discount. This cannot always be promised.

Funding

If funding cannot come from the public sector, individual schools can join up with other local schools to allow us to ‘tour’, thus bringing down the per-day cost. Some schools use one-off lottery grants, or local ‘small-claims’ grants. Others ask parents for a contribution.

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