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Citizenship
2.2 Advocacy and representation Students should be able to:
• Research, plan and undertake enquiries into issues and
problems using a range of information and sources
• Express and explain their own opinions to others
through discussions, formal debates and voting
• Communicate an argument, taking account of
different viewpoints and drawing on what they have
learnt through research, action and debate
• Justify their argument, giving reasons to try
to persuade others to think again, change or
support them
• Represent the views of others, with which they
may or may not agree
2.3 Taking informed and Students should be able to:
responsible action • Explore creative approaches to taking action on
problems and issues to achieve intended purposes
• Work individually and with others to negotiate,
plan and take action on citizenship issues to try
to influence others, bring about change or resist
unwanted change, using time and resources
appropriately
• Analyse the impact of their actions on communities
and the wider world, now and in the future
• Reflect on the progress they have made, evaluating
what they have learnt, what went well, the difficulties
encountered and what they would do differently
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Mathematics
1.1 Competence Applying suitable mathematics accurately within
the classroom and beyond.
Communicating mathematics effectively.
Selecting appropriate mathematical tools and
methods, including information and communication
technology (ICT).
1.2 Creativity Using existing mathematical knowledge to create
solutions to unfamiliar problems.
Posing questions and developing convincing arguments.
1.3 Applications and implications Engaging in mathematics as an interesting and
of mathematics worthwhile activity.
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Section 3
Further afield
Section 4
Europe and beyond
Section 5
Organising a cycling trip
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London and within the UK. Teachers can select one or more of
these activities for their students to do as preparation and training
for a later foreign cycling excursion or European school exchange
trip. Section 4: ‘Europe and beyond’ comprises student handouts
and worksheets with activity tasks relating to a partnership link
with a European school and Section 5: ‘Organising a cycling trip’
represents guidance about the organisation of the foreign trip/
school exchange for the teacher.
Teacher guidelines
If, as part of your cycling initiative, you want to form links with a foreign
school or club you can combine this with Project 1: Young Dragons
(Setting up your own cycling/cycle sport club). Unless you are very
experienced and/or have a wide knowledge of cycling to draw upon, it
is better to design a series of activities that builds towards a foreign
excursion/exchange trip, and suitable cycling activities are suggested in
Sections 1 to 3 of this project. Of course, as a teacher or youth leader
running a student trip it is vital you undertake the appropriate risk
assessment of the suitability of the activity for your group.
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Equipment required
• A written criteria for a safe bicycle, with an emphasis on the suitability
of the bike for the activity as well as the function of the contact points
(brakes, pedals/cranks, seat, handlebars), or a handout showing the
M test for riders to follow prior to the trip. The London Cycling Campaign
– www.lcc.org.uk – has a useful section on cycle maintenance
• A suitable spares kit for the numbers and bikes involved
• Maps: See www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite to order detailed maps
for your area
• Communication devices (the provision of walkie-talkies is feasible for
many trips now)
• Means of hydration (all bikes should be able to carry two water bottles
as a minimum)
• Food: Either a planned meal stop or, for more advanced riders, the
correct energy foods to sustain effort for an extended time
This list is by no means exhaustive and getting the students to look at
a cycle shop website could be a good way of compiling an equipment list
of your own.
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A beautiful and popular spot with all types of cyclists (it can be very busy
during summer weekends). You can use the bridleways from April until
September. Consult the website and phone ahead if you are taking a group.
For more details, visit:
www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/richmond_park/sport.cfm
Weald Country Park, Brentwood, Essex
Ideal for beginners, with nice wide paths, shallow hills and a circular shape
to make this a great safe place for young people to enjoy cycling. Consult
the website and phone ahead if you are taking a group.
For more details, visit:
www.essexcc.gov.uk/vip8/ecc/ECCWebsite/dis/guc.jsp?channelOid=14413&
guideOid=16906&guideContentOid=127788
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Further resources
There are many specialist cycling and mountain bike riding magazines,
some of which have UK cycle route guides with Ordnance Survey maps
and detailed commentaries that you can order or download from the
magazine’s website.
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supper. All of which can be done in Epping Forest 45 minutes from most
parts of London! You don’t have to travel far to have a great adventure.
Why not add an overnight stay as part of your cycling adventure? The
simplest way to do this near London is to plan your route around a youth
hostel. Most of the routes mentioned in Section 1: ‘Local cycling trips’ are
near youth hostels.
See the Youth Hostel Association’s (YHA’s) website for more details:
www.yha.org.uk
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Introduction
The UK is one of the best cycling regions in Europe. The 2007 UCI Mountain
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Wales
The Welsh Tourist Board has really taken off-road cycling seriously and
as a result offers some of the best facilities in Europe for cyclists of all
abilities. There are no less than seven approved centres for cycling in
Wales, as well as numerous areas for open-trail riding. The Brecon
Beacons is less than three hours’ distance from London travelling by
minibus, and the Cwmcarn Visitors Centre is even closer.
To research cycling tours in Wales, a good first port of call is the excellent
Wales Cymru website Mountain Biking Wales www.mbwales.com/index.asp
Scotland
Scotland has some of the best cycle tracks in the UK and it is possible to
set up a cycling challenge to really test the ability of older students. But it
is not all massive mountains; there are off-road cycle centres which will
happily cater for younger, less experienced riders.
A good starting point is the Visit Scotland website, which has all the
details of the main cycle centres you can visit. All the trails are graded for
difficulty and there are links to accommodation as well as local cycle hire
outlets and cycle shops.
http://cycling.visitscotland.com/mountain_biking/mb_centre
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Resources:
Handout 1 The most watched sporting event on the planet?
Handout 2 Europe and beyond: getting started
Worksheet 1 Email or letter exchange
Worksheet 2 Electronic scrapbook
Worksheet 3 Video/audio conference
Handout 3 Social networking
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resources to run a foreign cycling trip. There are many travel businesses
that specialise in taking school trips – a keyword search for school tour
operators will find plenty to choose from.
Another way of ensuring a safe trip is to arrange to take the students from
both partnership schools to an approved educational activity centre. This
would work especially well if the UK school were playing host as there are
several of these activity centres near to London which are also close to
suitable cycling routes.
The Teachernet website produces a good guide to the health & safety
aspects of running educational trips:
www.teachernet.gov.uk/wholeschool/healthandsafety/visits
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Heard of the Tour de France?
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Send an email or letter to a student in the partner school with lots of basic
information about what life is like in your school. To add a cycling theme,
you could also talk about what you have done in the cycling club you set
up in the Young Dragons project, as well as give some interesting information
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Video/audio conference
Why not set up a video or audio conference with your partner school?
If you are looking to improve your language skills you could ask a teacher
in the languages department to help out. They may be able to assess the
work you do on this activity as part of your Modern Foreign Languages
coursework and you could boost your grade level!
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Procedure
1. Set out your aims for the activity (what you are going to talk about)
2. Decide on the language you are to use (generally European standards
of English are much higher than our grasp of their languages)
3. If you are going to use a language other than English get the students
in the partner school to email their questions first so you can practise
the answers
4. Arrange a time for the link-up, remembering that European time is one
hour ahead of the UK’s
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Social networking
You can share audio, photos and video on social-networking sites. But
before you go ahead with setting up and posting to a social networking site
make sure your teacher has checked you have sensible privacy settings in
place and that what you are posting is suitable. There are quite a few