Schools and colleges
Mountain Biking for educational settingsCycle Horizons offers tailored mountain bike courses to mainstream and special educational school settings, as well as community based youth services. In particular Cycle Horizons works with young people displaying emotional behavioural difficulties (EBD) across the age ranges. Research has shown that outdoor activities can help develop Young People's emotional wellbeing. Cycle Horizons best tracks the development of individuals in terms of confidence, self-esteem, self-efficacy and an ability to set new goals for themselves through weekly mountain bike sessions. Choose from a range of courses, our most popular being a pure and simple weekly sports cycle session in which pupils partake in a weekly cycling activity: MIAS - Sports format Cycle Sessions:Weekly school sessions (non accredited) Guided Rides with additional weekly topics and progressions Covering new topics each week throughout the term or academic year progressing students in each of the following: Topics:
Practical Skills:
There is a clear progression for groups each week. Group members are safer, more confident and all round better cyclists after just one term. Life skills, teamwork, basic maintenance and more taught through these a fun weekly sport sessions with optional awards. Find out more about our courses here A further popular course formats is:
MIAS - GEARS Course - ABC / Emfec / NVQ Accreditation:We offer the GEARS award format to schools we work with, and pupils can put in for their final GEARS Certificates at the end of each period to mark their acheivements. On average a GEARS course (Level 1 through 3) can be achieved by pupils in mainstream schools in 3 to 4 terms. Many schools choose ongoing sessions that take longer periods to cover the material to broaden participant skill/knowledge base and continue to provide not just weekly learning but a challenging, fun outdoor sport promoting fitness and health benefits each week. The Mountain-bike Instructors' Award Scheme ,GEARS Course has three different modules, increasing in complexity at each level:
All three modules have been designed for young people with physical / learning / behavioural / emotional difficulties, but do not exclude young people in mainstream, higher or further education. Pupils are assessed through the following criteria, taking each through to the next level with increasing complexity:
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'After losing confidence on the bike due to a couple of hard falls last winter, I was very reluctant to get back to cycling ... Thanks to Nathan's patience and advice I now know much of my insecurity on descents was related to poor positioning on the bike ..... I always felt the bike was completely out of control, it was! Learning the techniques to decent fast is not easy but One 2 One lessons have at least cured the fear, and each week as the speed of my descents increases I reduce my breaking and improve my lines. My Duathlons and Tri events have been limited to the flattest bike races as any technical course was out of the question. Next year I look forward to some more adventurous racing' David - Putney |
