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School cycle trainingSchool cycle training
The ability to cycle safely is a vital life-long skill. Your pupils will gain practical experience in hazard identification, along with the four key cycling skills: observation, communication, road positioning and understanding priorities.
Cycle training can also support your school travel plan, encouraging active and sustainable travel, and benefits children's health and wellbeing.
Primary school
On Bikeability Level 1, riders learn to control and master their cycles in a space away from traffic, such as a playground. The course is typically 3 hours delivered in a single day for year 4 pupils.
Bikeability Level 2 takes place on local streets. Riders learn how to deal with traffic on quieter roads, progressing to ones that are a little busier if they are able to. The course is typically just over 7 hours slit across five sessions Monday to Friday, for year 6 pupils.
Free School Meal (FSM) pupils are now free and funded for academic year 2024/25. The standard fee is £15 for Level 2 and £9 for Level 1. Many schools use their sport premium to make it free to all their pupils.
Bikeability is the national cycle training programme. All our sessions are run by County Council staff who are professionally qualified Cycle Training Instructors.
Secondary school
Year 7 students can also undertake Bikeability Level 2 if they missed it at primary school.
All year groups can participate in the Independent Cycling to School course. This involves route planning to use cycle tracks and Level 2 roads as much as possible, then looking at ways to deal with busier or more complex parts of the journey where necessary.
Learn to ride for all school ages
This is for complete beginners, those who cannot ride at all. The aim is to enable pupils to be able set off, pedal, steer and stop. This is a two hour course delivered one-to-one.
How to book your cycle training
School staff can request training through our online system. Log in, request the type of training and number of pupils you think would like the training. We will offer some dates for your confirmation. Parents then book a place online, including their consent information, meaning administration is fairly straightforward from the school end.
Login for instructors and schools
If you do not have a login, please contact the cycle training team via our contact centre 0300 200 1003.
Community cycle training
We run courses for both adults and children. These public courses are open to all.
You can see what's on offer and book by following the link below:
Book a community cycle training course online
We generally advertise courses a couple of months before their start date.
We also arrange courses for organisations who want their staff and/or clients trained. If you interested in this, please contact the cycle training team via our contact centre 0300 200 1003.
Community courses
Learn to ride
we will help you through stages of safely getting on and off a bike, braking, steering, getting a good balance and pedalling. Most people are able to achieve these by the end of the course, although we can't guarantee it. The training will give you the skills to go on and practice. We run adult courses separate to course for children.
Parent and teen
Riding together, both adult and student develop the four core skills required when riding on roads – observation, communication, positioning and priorities.
Adult cycle confidence - Introduction to cycling on roads
A course for adults who have recently learnt to ride, or who have not ridden on roads for a while, and would like to learn more about the best way to ride on quieter roads.
Adult town centre cycle confidence
The course will take riders through the local town centre traffic system with instructors coaching riders on best practice and safe cycling skills. The format of the course may alter according to the skills and requirements of the riders. The instruction will consist of demonstrations, conversations and coaching whilst riding.
Bikeability holiday courses
We also run Bikeability Level 1 and Bikeability Level 2 holiday courses, for anyone who may have missed out on the training at their school.
