Bikeability\u202fis the government’s national cycle training programme and helps young people learn practical skills and understand how to cycle on roads.<\/p>\n
During the session, the students navigated a practice course marked out with cones on the playground and learned road safety skills, including checking behind.<\/p>\n
Fellow Year 12 student Isla said the adapted trike felt safer than a standard bicycle. <\/p>\n
“I found it easier than riding a normal bike because it’s got more balance,” she said. <\/p>\n
Deputy head Matt Sentence said the programme had taken more than a year to organise and was focused on preparing students for adulthood.<\/p>\n
“[Bikeability] builds their confidence, resilience and greater awareness of what’s going on,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We’ve spoken to several schools [in Northamptonshire] and they’ve all said that moving forward, they would love to have access to this resource.”<\/p>\n
Keith Millard, from Kier Transportation, which manages the Bikeability contract for West Northamptonshire Council, said the scheme was about giving all young people access to cycling.<\/p>\n
“It’s a skill for life,” he said. “You don’t see a student unhappy on a bike.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bikeability\u202fis the government’s national cycle training programme and helps young people learn practical skills and understand how to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-590204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}