How can you make it happen?


Perhaps the best place to start is to find out what it is your pupils actually want and what demand there is likely to be for cycling in your school. A survey of current and desired cycling habits and routines would help you to decide what you need to change for the future.


For example, find out how many pupils currently cycle. Then explore why they do this. What benefits do they think they get from cycling? How could facilities be improved for them?


Then move on to the pupils who don't cycle. Why don't they do that? Would they like to? What is getting in the way of the being able to cycle? This information would prove invaluable when moving on to developing a strategy to encourage more cycling.


Some suggestions on the type of questions that you could ask in your survey are: Do you cycle to school?


If yes, then answer these questions: 


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How often do you cycle to school? (tick boxes could be used here to make the capture of the data easier, so for this question the answers could be every day, 3 times a week, once a week etc.)


What do you enjoy most about cycling to school? Again, tick boxes will help - exercise, speed to get to school, being independent, travelling with my friends etc.) 


Do you intend to carry on cycling to school? 


What might make you change your mind? 


What would make you cycle to school more? 


Where else do you cycle to outside of school? 


How would you encourage more people to cycle to school?


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