Walk Bike Roll Mini Grants - Featured projects

By City of Vancouver

Cunningham Elementary - Bike Kitchen

• Cunningham Elementary - Bike Kitchen

  By City of Vancouver

  We worked with Our Community Bikes to provide the bike kitchen. Students and families were able to get basic repairs done to their bike so they were safe to ride. They learned basic skills to maintain their bikes and were able to get repairs for larger issues. Families were so pleased to be able to bring their bikes to the school for repairs and tune-ups. It was a great community builder. Families chatted while they waited and learned how to do basic repairs. We plan to continue with the bike kitchen in September, every Wednesday after school, and will add interactive Gr. 7 repair classes during school hours so students can work on their own bikes. We are also encouraging students to participate in the “Our Community Bikes Youth Bike Club.”

• Sir James Douglas Elementary - Walk to School Wednesday

  By City of Vancouver

  Our project was a school-wide campaign to promote walking to school. Students were encouraged to walk to school on Wednesdays. The PAC community was enthusiastic and supported us. Those that live out of catchment were encouraged to get dropped off a block or two away and walk. I noticed that even on rainy days students walked to school, especially on Wednesdays. The campaign will lead into spring bike, walk, and scoot to school week where they will give out walking safety whistles as walk-a-thon prizes.

• Tecumseh Annex - Scooter Education

  By City of Vancouver

  With the Walk, Bike, and Roll to School Grant, Tecumseh Annex was given the motivation to bring awareness to the positive impact and the fun in walking, biking, and rolling to school. With the funds that we received, we purchased ten scooters. We have been teaching and practicing scootering skills. It has been well received and a very exciting program for the kids. We believe that many students will be talking about the fun they have and be confident to want scooters of their own and ride them to school! The Walk, Bike, and Roll project was supported by our Physical Education Teacher. She takes care of all of our class and gym prep and she does much of the teaching surrounding this event. She plans to continue teaching and talking to students about keeping up a healthy lifestyle.

• Lord Selkirk Elementary - Bike Train

  By City of Vancouver

  Each Monday morning from November 8 to December 13 we held two bike trains. We had 15 cyclists in one train on our busiest day. It drew a lot of attention and it did increase safety for the kids while being positive for parents. The weather was frightful but the biking quite delightful. We plan to continue in the spring and hopefully many of the “fair weather” cyclists who enquired will join.

• Eric Hamber Secondary - Hamber's Fall Go by Bike Week

  By City of Vancouver

  This project encouraged students to log their trips for Go by Bike Week by serving riders snacks as a reward and incentive. We also used this opportunity to promote proper bike locking technique and informed students about visibility during the winter, road safety, and the services our Hamber Bike Club provides. To those who logged trips, we offered bike safety and maintenance equipment, which included their choice of a bike light, patch kit, or tire levers.  Those who logged the most trips and distances chose from prizes of a bike pump, transit passes and Our Community Bikes t-shirts.

• David Lloyd George Elementary - Walking Around the Neighbourhood

  By City of Vancouver

  Upper intermediate students go for weekly or biweekly walks around our neighbourhood. The walks allow students to judge time and distances as they explore the neighbourhood and promote walking as a means to move to get to places on foot, especially school. Many students are walking to local businesses, school, or their friends’ homes instead of being driven. Fewer students are being driven to school as older students are encouraged to walk. This encourages independence and knowledge of the community.