posted by Lesley Eaton, School Travel Administrator, Children and Learning

Get your pupils arriving at school ready to learn;

The charity Sustrans is running a schools scooting and cycling challenge The Big Pedal over 10 days (20-31^st of March 2017).  This is the biggest two-wheels challenge in the UK and all schools both primary and secondary’s are invited to take part.  Over 100 schools in Scotland have signed up.

The aim is to get the largest proportion of pupils, parents and staff to scoot and cycle into school over the two week period.

Schools can choose to enter a 1 or 5 day challenge where your best day or best 5 days out of the two weeks count.

The theme of this year’s challenge is Round-the-World in 10 Days.

There is a wall chart and facts cards for participating schools to plot their journeys and learn about the countries they pass through. As well as other resources on the website; including power point for assemblies, letters for parents etc.

Read all about it and register here; http://bigpedal.org.uk/

For tweets, use #bigpedal and tag @SustransScot
It’s fun, free and can help children and adults get more active and arrive at school ready to start learning.

Look forward to hearing about your Big Pedal!