Bike rodeo wraps up bike week

Students at Alliance French Immersion Public School in North Bay have been riding their bikes all week, and it all came to head on Friday with a bike rodeo.

Teacher Brigitte Fiorino says all the students in the school took part, learning a number of things.

That includes how to be comfortable on a bike, but also the rules of riding a bike.

Fiorino says the students, from junior kindergarten to grade six, have had all week to learn and they were judged on what they’ve learned through a series of stations set up.

She says there’s the healthy piece too, as they are promoting healthy physical activity by riding bikes.

Fiorino says a number of agencies were involved with bike week activities including the North Bay-Parry Sound District Health Unit, Nipissing University and Discovery Routes.

Three of the students who took part won brand new bikes.