Inter-school mountain bike competitions, bike maintenance sessions and cycle safety classes. These are just some of the strategies that have helped a Surrey secondary school to increase the number of children who regularly cycle to school from nine to 31 per cent in just three years.
In the process the Royal Alexandra and Albert School in Gatton Park, Reigate, has won a prestigious national award. The 960-pupil school has become the first secondary in the country to be presented with the Gold Sustrans School Mark Award.
The Sustrans Bike It scheme aims to embed a culture of cycling to school – and that’s exactly what staff and pupils at the Royal Alexandra and Albert have done.
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