On Yer Bike
A secondary school and its local community take an holistic approach to reduce the environmental impact of the school run.
The journey to and from school is responsible for nearly a quarter of all cars on the road during morning rush hour. Aside from environmental issues, car travel is also contributing to the rise in childhood obesity as fewer children walk or cycle to school.
Currently, only two per cent of children cycle to school in this country. Sustrans, the UK's leading sustainable transport charity, hopes to rectify this situation with Bike It ? a groundbreaking project that has already quadrupled the number of children cycling to its target schools.
To demonstrate the project's success, we travel to Hummersknott School and Language College in Darlington where the number of children cycling has risen by 70 per cent over the last two years.
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Facebookcorre on 06 December 2007
I'm a French college professor- teaching English and Business English to 18 to 25 year olds at our university (Toulon, S ...
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- Duration: 15:00 minutes
- Published: 04 April 2007
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- Next showing on TV: 22:30 10 February 2010
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Sustrans charity The sustainable transport charity works on practical projects to encourage people to walk, cycle and use public transport
Department for Transport: School Travel DfT page promoting safe and healthy journeys and offering links to wider transport-related research documents
Sustrans: Bike It Information on a ground-breaking project that has quadrupled the number of children cycling to its target schools
School Travel Plan Useful website providing information to help develop your school's travel plan
TeacherNet: School Travel Plans Good summary of what's involved in creating a school travel plan plus a number of related resources
Healthy Schools Information on the long term initiative that helps young people and their schools to be healthy
Hummersknott School and Language College Website for the Darlington secondary school currently taking part in the Sustrans Bike It project
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Bike it!6 December 2007 - 07:21I'm a French college professor- teaching English and Business English to 18 to 25 year olds at our university (Toulon, South of France). Despite the exceptionally good weather we enjoy here (300 days of sunshine a year), most of my students -I would say , 98% of them- drive a car to college, with the obvious resulting parking and safety problems on campus.
It just goes to show that our younger generations need a scheme like this to educate them into riding a bike to school or work. When they are 18 or 20, it's already too late. Too many factors come into play then : independence ' desires', showing off in front of girls etc...
So, a great idea that we need to inspire ourselves from.
I personally will play this film to my students and spread the word. I also teach by example as, you must have guessed by now, I, too, ride my bike to the Uni every day ! JJ
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Transport video6 November 2007 - 18:00Frankie you need to r egister with teacherstv and then go to videos; type transport and I think is the third entry: Sustrans Cahrity; click and then ckick again on Inspirations - On Yer Bike. Hope your students enjoy the ride!
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