Bicycle Safety Week

Happy Wednesday!

I just wanted to share some of the events we've been working on to celebrate Saskatchewan's Bike Safety Week!

We started our week with some helpful bike safety tips from Bill Nye, the Science Guy. We've been practicing our hand signals while walking to ensure we can safely indicate our intentions while cycling. 

We were very happy today to have Mr. Mitchell talk to us about the importance of helmets. While the STARS bandages were exciting, I really appreciated what he had to say about helmet safety. I found it interesting to think about the word 'concussion' - which has become quite common. Mr. Mitchell helped to re-frame our thinking about the word .... concussions are brain injuries. After his presentation, we looked up some really cool helmets, found Moosimin on a map and then got to work  designing helmets we thought kids would like to wear! We are going to work on a bulletin board to convince students that helmet safety is important.

Tomorrow, students are invited to bring their helmets to school. We will be making sure that they are fitted properly  -- and then doing the same for our Kindergarten buddies next week. On Tuesday, we will be visited by Constable Constanza from RPS who will be talking us & Mr. Hollinger's Grade 5s about the rules of the road. Based on the Kahoot! quiz from earlier this week, we definitely need to work on what road signs mean to cyclists (We are vehicles too!)

Reminders for tomorrow: 

• Bring a bike helmet for fitting
• BBQ order forms are due
• It's Luau time! (K-4 dance from 1-2 & 5-8 dance from 2-3)
• There is no school on Friday & on Monday