Students in grades 4 and 5 will learn biking skills and safety awareness at participating schools in Squamish, and Metro Vancouver as the fall session of Everyone Rides Grades 4-5 gets underway.
Students will take part in two sessions at school. The first is a 45-to-60-minute in-class or online introduction to cycling skills and helmet safety.
Everyone Rides Grades 4-5 is a program developed and delivered by HUB Cycling, a not-for-profit organization with more than 20 years of experience helping to remove barriers to cycling and promoting the health, environmental and economic benefits of cycling through education and training.
The second provides 75 to 90 minutes of hands-on practice with practical skills, including stopping, turning, hand signals, road sign awareness and traffic safety.
About 2,700 students from 27 schools are expected to participate in the program.
Bikes and helmets are provided, including adaptive options for children with disabilities, so that all students can take part.
“By enabling people to cycle instead of drive, we can collectively prevent thousands of kilograms of carbon dioxide from entering our atmosphere every year,” said Bowinn Ma, Minister of State for Transportation and Infrastructure.
“Cycling is a great year-round activity that allows people to fit more activity into their lives. Everyone Rides Grade 4-5 helps students develop important bike skills and will encourage them to become active travellers.”
The first two years of the program reached 9,235 students through a combination of online, in-class and on-bike learning.
