Wednesday 29th
April 2015
Today I completed
a Cycling Proficiency Course for Dalrymple Primary School in East Ayrshire. Out
of twelve trainees, nine passed and three just never turned up. Well done to
the nine that passed, they worked really hard during the course.
This afternoon
I started a Bikeability Level One course for twelve Primary five pupils at
Dalrymple Primary School which will last for about seven weeks.
This group
seemed keen and the session went well. We started off with the egg helmet
activity (this demonstrates the necessity for wearing a helmet) and continued
with bike safety checks. It surprises me the amount of parents that send their
child out on a bike with no thought of checking to see if the bike is road
worthy or not. I had seven out of the twelve bikes with faulty brakes and two
without the brakes working at all. I spent ages trying to repair bikes so that
the kids could at least take part in some of the session.
Most of the
trainees managed to ride one handed and do high fives. To finish off we had a
slow race but a few of the trainees didn't quite grasp the concept that it was
the slowest that won not the fastest.
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