Every year, their Year 5/6 students take part in a Bike Education Program designed to help build bike riding and road safety skills in students.
Riding a bike is a life skill that helps people move about their community, travel to school or work, build fitness, improve independence, and make social connections.
The program is delivered by classroom teachers and parents volunteering their time to help out, thus building the connection between home and school.
However, this year, the Lighthouse Project will be supporting the program.
“They will be kindly supplying restored bikes to those students who don’t have road-worthy bikes,” Kialla West Primary School acting principal Pauline Doonan said.
“And all bikes and helmets undergo a rigorous safety check before the program begins.
“The program aims to develop riding and safety skills and allows the students to implement these on the quiet estate opposite the school.”
After the program concludes, their skills are tested on a longer ride, using paths and roads on a 32km culmination ride and celebratory BBQ.
“Staff, students and parents highly anticipate this event,” Mrs Doonan said.
“The students think it’s the best time of year when they can ride their bike with their friends.”
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