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Bike Week

Suitable for the whole school community. Supports the PE National Curriculum

Overview

Education phase

Early years Key stage 2 Key stage 3 Key stage 4 Key stage 5 Key stage 1

Category of activity

Travel

Types of activity

Cycling

How it helps

  • Supports the PE National Curriculum
  • Encourages daily active travel
  • Gateway to other cycling initiatives

About the activity

Bike Week is an annual opportunity to promote cycling at your school. Add your event to the Bike Week official website so that the local community can find out about what you’re doing and get involved, too. The kind of activity you run during this week is up to you, so long as it encourages safe, sustainable cycling.  

Most Bike Week events take place within the official event week in June, however, you can register events on the site all year round.

Here are some ideas for events your school could register for Bike Week:

  • Sponsored cycle-to-school week: Work with your TfL Explorer Ambassadors (EA)to set up a sponsored event
  • Bikers' breakfast: Reward cyclist with a healthy breakfast
  • Dr Bike: Work with your local bike shop or bike recycling centre to provide a  bike health check session at your school  
  • Cycling trip: Organise a biking excursion with your cycle club, class or at the weekend with your pupils and their families

Work with your school travel working group to decide on and plan activities for during the week.

 

Activity steps

Step 1

Plan - Get together a team or work with your school travel working group to decide which cycle activities you'd like to run within school. Think about what you could do to involve the wider school community

Step 2

Register or complete the online forms. Add your event(s) to the Bike Week website (see Resources) and gather all the resources you need to get started from the Sustrans 'Bike to School Week' website

Step 3

Promotion. Check out the promotional materials available to promote your activities in assemblies, newsletters, on the website and on posters around the school

Step 4

During the week. Keep track of how many people take part in the events. You can use a bike count sheet (see Resources) to find out if more pupils and staff cycle that week

Step 5

Check for success. Ask pupils and colleague how they found the week. Did it encourage them to try cycling to school? What could you do to improve the activities next time?

Step 6

Tell your story! Upload your evidence to "my activities"