Cycle Safe 2013

On the 25th November Room 7 of Sacred Heart School had their first day of learning about cycle safety. To teach the students about cycle safety, the cycle safe team spent the day at Sacred Heart. Cycle Safe is a program sent around Christchurch by the Christchurch City Council. The team is split into two units and each unit has a certain amount of schools each. The Cycle Safe Crew teach students about road rules, what road signs mean, how to bike safely on the road, how to do a 4 step safety check on bikes and many other interesting facts that will help students later on in life. In conclusion, it was a fun filled day of new learner facts and skills. 

The end

By Willow

The morning was opaque and a bit nippy due to weather the previous day but the day endured on to be a pleasant climate to be learning the requirements for biking on the road harmlessly. Firstly we observed on what the cycle safety team had to say and they then briefly informed us about what we will be doing later in the morning.

Each individual was spilt into groups of approximately 10 people then we ambled towards the other instructors who were inspecting our bikes seeing whether they were in good condition.then we continued to repeat four simple steps to check if your bike is road worthy to be driven.

Then we followed each other towards the main court and drove our bikes around cones we imitated this for several minutes while signalling with our hands we continued with a 20 minute interval and returned back to be tested on the basic cycle safety rules this persevered until each person in your group had finished when so they had spare time to ride around on your bikes this lasted until lunch time.

When lunch time was finished so was biking due to weather conditions but we had inside session defining what the road signs meant, this was ended by a couple of convivial games.

Overall our first day of cycle safety was a success learning about the basic road and cycle rules.

By Violet