More than 50 pupils from a Cheshire school improved their cycling skills with on road courses run by Cycle Experience, part of the TTC Group road safety education organisation.
The 12 to 15-year-olds from Upton-by-Chester High School went on 12 courses funded by Cheshire West and Chester Council as an “essential” follow up to Level 2 cycle training during their final year at primary school.
The students were all “highly enthusiastic and capable,” said Cycle Experience’s Regional Manager Steve Kyriacou, whose instructors delivered the Level 3 Bikeability course programme.
“All the students were a joy to teach displaying excellent cycling skills and achieving all Level 3 outcomes. They were a credit to the school.”
The school’s admin assistant Martin Boothman said all students had benefited greatly from the course and praised Cycle Experience instructors for their “exemplary” professionalism.
Bikeability Level 3 enhances the basic skills and educates cyclists to make journeys in a variety of more complex traffic conditions competently, confidently and consistently. Those completing Level 3 will be able to demonstrate the skills and understanding to be able to make a trip safely to and from school, work or leisure on busy roads, using complex junctions and road features. The training deals with hazard perception, making ‘on-the-move’ risk assessments and planning routes for safer cycling.
Aims of this Level 3 cycle training course were:
Cycle Experience delivers Bikeability cycle training for primary and secondary schools across the Cheshire West and Chester borough as well as cycle training for adults and a range of other cycling promotion programmes on behalf of the borough council.