Nor'West News: June 20, 2017

12 Tuesday June 20 2017
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Cotwold pupils get on their bikes with $15,000 grant
• By Julia Evans
THE BIKES in Schools
programme is one step closer
to being run from Cotswold
Primary School.
The Fendalton-Waimairi-
Harewood Community Board
has earmarked $15,000 to go
towards the programme at the
Bishopdale school. The aim is
to provide children with easy
access to bicycles.
The school is looking to
purchase a fleet of more than
50 bicycles of four different
sizes and helmets. They will
also build a bike track around
the school field and a storage
facility.
Of the $72,000 needed, the
school has raised $56,000
already. The board’s contribution
pushes that to $71,000.
The track will be open to
500 Cotswold pupils during
the school day and to the
community after school hours
and on weekends.
Local sports clubs, preschools
and kindergartens will
also have access to the track.
Board deputy chairman
Sam MacDonald said the
it was fully behind the programme.
Mr MacDonald said the
best part of the plan was that
it would benefit the wider
community as well as the
school.
“The thing is with the
city council giving away
money like that is it should
be beneficial for the whole
community,” he said.
The school also plans to
hold duathlons and bicycle
races.
More than 65 schools across
the country have worked with
the Bikes in Schools Charitable
Trust to implement the
programme.
However, Cotswold will become
only the second school
in the city to run it, alongside
Rawhiti School in North New
Brighton.
EXCITING: Cotswold
Primary School pupils
are on track to benefit
from the Bikes in Schools
programme.
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The preschoolers fantastic morning was topped off with
support and congratulations from family, Rangi Ruru Girls’
School students and faculty members.