Bicycle Network Victoria: Teachers

Do a deal with your local Bike Shop

Active After School Communities

Do a deal with your local Bike Shop

Your local bike shop is more than just a place to buy a bike or add accessories. Local bike shops are cycling hubs, their staff are passionate about riding and have a wealth of expertise to share. Your local bike shop can be an essential resource and source of support for your Ride2School Program.

Why not print off of our Ride2School Bike Shop Certificate, visit your local bike shop and ask them to support the Ride2School program at your school? Ask them if they'll agree to some of the suggested offers on the certificate. In exchange you could offer them free advertising in your school newsletter as well as plenty of acknowledgement for any help they give or prizes they donate.

Some bike shops will offer students and families of local schools a 10% discount. Others will do safety checks on student bikes in the lead up to Bike Ed. Many shops will display Ride2School event posters in their window and some will even donate prizes for Ride2School Day. It can't hurt to ask!

Most bike shops are listed on Bicycle Network Victoria's Find a... Search by your suburb for the nearest bike shop to your school. If you know of a bike shop but can't find it on the list, please let the bike shop know they're not on the Bicycle Network Victoria website next time you visit.

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Active After School Communities

Active After-school Communities (AASC) have teamed up with Ride2School to deliver fun and exciting Bike Ed courses to students after school. They endeavour to get more students participating in Bike Ed courses.

Active After-school Communities (AASC) is a national program that provides Australian primary school aged children with access to free structured physical activity programs in the after school timeslot.

The AASC program is designed to engage traditionally inactive children in structured physical activities and build links with community based organisations for ongoing participation- including the Ride2School program.

What do schools need to do to be involved in Bike Ed as part of the AASC program?

• Ensure you are part of the AASC program
• Fill in the relevant AASC forms which indicate you would like to do the Ride2School activities.
• Fax your AASC booking form to Ride2School. Fax 03 8376 8800.
• What do volunteers need to do to be involved?
• To be involved with the AASC Bike Ed program it is a requirement that you are a trained Bike Ed volunteer and have completed the AASC Community Coach Training Program.
• The AASC Coach training is conducted to allow trained Bike Ed volunteers to be involved in the program.

How is Ride2School involved?

The Ride2School Bike Ed program aims at getting more students riding more often, through this we have teamed up with the AASC to run after-school Bike Ed programs.

Types of programs implemented

Basic Bike Ed Skills which includes:

• Develop basic riding skills
• Build riding skills required for riding in traffic through simulations
• Understand and apply the rules for sharing different paths and footways safely and courteously with pedestrians, other cyclists and other users
• Demonstrate students’ ability to ride safely and responsibly under observation over an extended route of 3-4 kilometers in a variety of road and traffic conditions

Bike Ed Maintenance and Adventure Program:

The outdoor practical riding components of the Bike Maintenance and Adventure program involve:

• Simulated on road riding within the school grounds
• Footpath, shared footway and bike path riding
• Adventure rides – obstacles, relays, mini Olympics

What information is covered in the CCTP course?

Five modules comprised of theory and practical work will be presented in an interactive competency based environment.
Modules include:

1. Role of the AASC Coach
2. Communication and Behaviour Management
3. Safe Environments
4. Nutrition and Well-being
5. Planning, Preparing, Delivering and Reviewing Playing for Life activity sessions (practical session)

What is ‘Playing for Life’?

‘Playing for Life’ is an approach to coaching that uses games as the focus for development. By concentrating on game based activities the playing for life approach:

• develops children’s skills within a fun, inclusive and active context
• focuses on the game whereby the game becomes the teacher
• ensures maximum participation

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