As our Community Project we have chosen to develop a bicycle friendly community through promoting health benefits of being bicycle friendly, organising events that encourage safer cycling for our students (Bike Safety School) and engaging local businesses by having them sponsor new bike racks for our school to offer comfortable bicycle parking.

First we carried out a survey among students and their parents and teachers to find out about cycling frequency and cycling safety. Based on the survey results we found out that before encouraging cycling to school, some safety rules must be presented to the students. Therefore, as a part of our community effort to make cycling to and from school a safe, active and enjoyable part of our lives we decided to organise the Bike Safety School for MYP students on April 13th on the school playground and to encourage the students to come by bicycle to school that day.

During the Bike Safety School the students found out more about health benefits of cycling and learnt some tips for bicycle safety including the demonstrations how to do a quick bicycle check. With the great help of the P.H.E. teacher Marko we set a cycling polygon on the school playground where the students trained their cycling, but the most important goal was to get into the helmet habit. At the end of the lesson the students took a cycling proficiency test and got a diploma. These bike safety lessons were very useful and we all had a lot of fun!

Fran M., Fran Š. and Luka M. with Teacher Linda