Some thoughts on the Global Bike Bus Summit: Tessa and Bran
A fantastic blog for you today folks, some more thoughts and reflections from the Global Bike Bus Summit recently held in Worcester, but this time from the perspective of the most important people, the children who take part in the Bike Bus to get to school.
Without further ado, I’m delighted to introduce you to Tessa and Bran!
Bike Bus Summit
By Tessa
On the 10th and 11th April we went to the Bike Bus Summit. Every year, the Bike Bus Summit is in a different country where they have Bike Buses.
On Thursday after school Bran and I went to a Bike Bus Summit workshop in the Hive, with children from different Bike Buses. There was even a boy from a Bike Bus in the US. During the workshop we talked about what Bike Bus means to us. We wrote all our ideas on a big pieces of paper.
On Friday morning Bran, Teddy and I went on a different Bike Bus, which goes to both St George’s CofE and Catholic schools. There were more people than on our Bike Bus. After going to both schools, the people that didn’t go to school cycled to Cathedral Square for a group photo and afterwards went to the Guildhall. All the children that were in the workshop presented the poem made of our ideas from the day before. Afterwards we all went back to our seat and listened to some people, like our MP, talk about Bike Buses. A very interesting fact is that our MP does Bike Buses with his children.
What I learned from the Bike Bus Summit
By Bran
I was amazed at how many people there were at the summit. It made me feel nervous but proud to be part of it. There are a lot of amazing volunteers that help us get to school safely.
I was interested in how easily the very first Bike Bus started – just a few parents with their children on the road and now it’s a worldwide activity.
I learned that Worcester is a leading city in the world for bike buses, and we are lucky at Oldbury to have two of them! But the speakers talked about how they hope that one day, we won’t need bike buses any more because there will be fewer cars on the road.
