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On Your Bike!
FunderEuropean Commission
Funder Contribution €321,833.00
Funded underERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for school education
Project code2018-1-UK01-KA201-048224
Open Access mandatePublications: NoResearch data: No
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At the start our intention was to encourage children and families to cycle more to reduce congestion, air pollution and to make our towns and cities sustainable attractive places to live in. Throughout the second half of this project, Covid-19 has dramatically impacted the things we wanted to do. For example, pupil and staff travel has not been possible since March 2020 and school closures have made in-class teaching difficult and often impossible because of lengthy school closures.Indeed, many of our other Erasmus+ projects have found it difficult to keep everyone on board and keep the project going. In the case of this project, however, the reverse has happened. The results have been incredible with lockdowns providing parents and young people the opportunity to get on their bikes and explore. Parents and carers have engaged in school led projects to get their children fit and healthy whilst they, themselves, have enjoyed time with their children and rediscovered the pleasures of getting on a bike.As planned, our young people have campaigned and encouraged more pupils to cycle to school, thus reducing traffic around schools and improving pupils’ health and wellbeing through more physical activity.Teachers have worked collaboratively to develop lessons to support campaigns and further encourage the use of bicycles by pupils, parents and staff, and successfully embedded the promotion of using bicycles across school curricular.The project plan needed dramatically altering as a result of the Coronavirus, however, we have continued to work towards meeting our 3 project strands:1 - Upskilling Teachers, Pupils and Engaging the Community2- Encouraging more pupils to ride to school3 – Action- Community ProjectWe have produced a number of Intellectual Outputs including classroom materials and case studies as part of a thorough impact review. Other activities have included study visits. We managed to achieve 3 face-to-face Transnational Project Management meetings (TPM), 3 Learning Teaching and Training opportunities (LTT), 2 FOR staff and 1 for pupils. After that, all subsequent visits were cancelled because of the pandemic.Also cancelled were the multiplier events. Although dissemination has taken place and some multiplier activity has taken place, the full multiplier events could not be completed as planned.The participants in this project were:14 Schools4 Local Authorities/Regional Public Bodies2 Education/teacher/research centresThe vision of the project was ambitious but has not been unachievable despite Covid-19 restrictions, for which all participants can be very proud.
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At the start our intention was to encourage children and families to cycle more to reduce congestion, air pollution and to make our towns and cities sustainable attractive places to live in. Throughout the second half of this project, Covid-19 has dramatically impacted the things we wanted to do. For example, pupil and staff travel has not been possible since March 2020 and school closures have made in-class teaching difficult and often impossible because of lengthy school closures.Indeed, many of our other Erasmus+ projects have found it difficult to keep everyone on board and keep the project going. In the case of this project, however, the reverse has happened. The results have been incredible with lockdowns providing parents and young people the opportunity to get on their bikes and explore. Parents and carers have engaged in school led projects to get their children fit and healthy whilst they, themselves, have enjoyed time with their children and rediscovered the pleasures of getting on a bike.As planned, our young people have campaigned and encouraged more pupils to cycle to school, thus reducing traffic around schools and improving pupils’ health and wellbeing through more physical activity.Teachers have worked collaboratively to develop lessons to support campaigns and further encourage the use of bicycles by pupils, parents and staff, and successfully embedded the promotion of using bicycles across school curricular.The project plan needed dramatically altering as a result of the Coronavirus, however, we have continued to work towards meeting our 3 project strands:1 - Upskilling Teachers, Pupils and Engaging the Community2- Encouraging more pupils to ride to school3 – Action- Community ProjectWe have produced a number of Intellectual Outputs including classroom materials and case studies as part of a thorough impact review. Other activities have included study visits. We managed to achieve 3 face-to-face Transnational Project Management meetings (TPM), 3 Learning Teaching and Training opportunities (LTT), 2 FOR staff and 1 for pupils. After that, all subsequent visits were cancelled because of the pandemic.Also cancelled were the multiplier events. Although dissemination has taken place and some multiplier activity has taken place, the full multiplier events could not be completed as planned.The participants in this project were:14 Schools4 Local Authorities/Regional Public Bodies2 Education/teacher/research centresThe vision of the project was ambitious but has not been unachievable despite Covid-19 restrictions, for which all participants can be very proud.
