QPHS Spring Term 2024 magazine - Magazine - Page 38
TRAVEL SMART
Students are pedal ready!
All students from Year 7 and 8 were given to
opportunity to take part in the level 2 and 3
Bikeability programme. The Bikeability course is
a practical road safety training which develops
students’ skills for cycling on complex, busy or
fast roads and junctions. Students were taught
how to identify important observations, choosing
the most suitable riding position on the road,
communicating intentions clearly to others and
understanding priorities on the road.
During the session students navigated the roads
in and around Handbridge, under the close
supervision of three experts in cycle safety from
Bike right UK, Joh Hughes, Oliver Briscoe and
former QPHS student Jason Corbett (Class of
2004).
The importance of cycling safety has also been
emphasised to students as part of the citizenship
lessons. Mr Taylor, Curriculum Team Leader for
the Physical & Performing Arts leads by example
and has himself taken on a number of cycling
challenges in the past, including the coast to
coast as well as cycling the 1000miles across the
length of France, so he is all too aware of the
potential dangers posed by cycling.
We hope this course will not only inspire students
to cycle into school, but give them the tools to
cycle independently, confidently and safely. In
total 52 student were successful in gaining their
level 2 and 3 qualifications.
Well done to all those students who have now
passed their level 2 and 3.