Cycle Safety Course

The children in 5th class are doing a cycle safety course. It is part subsidised by the Green Schols organisation and An Taisce.

The children will learn about the following:

• Bicycle maintenance – how to know when the bike needs attention, how to identify the bike parts, and a practical exercise in setting up the bike properly

• Helmet wear and correct fit

• Clothes on a bike, how they help, how they hinder

• Weather and environmental considerations

• Core bike-handling skills

• Shoulder checking and signalling

• Starting position and safe stopping

• Left turn, major to minor road

• Left turn, minor to major road

• Right turn, major to minor road

• Right turn, minor to major road

• Correct positioning on the road

• Overtaking parked cars etc.

• The lifesaver look (the final extra check before a manoeuvre)

Sessions also include elements of theory, and rules of the road incorporating signs and crossings, with fun and skills incorporated.