As we prepare for warmer weather this Spring, we are “gearing up” our Bike Programming and have a few updates to our Biking Vikings program we would like to share with you. We would love your participation (and help, if you can)!
- “Bike Bus” routes to / from Lesher on Fridays in April and May - more information coming!
We have a handful of Lesher parents volunteering to lead groups of students on bike rides to Lesher before school and home from Lesher after school. Like a bus route, Bike Buses will travel along pre-determined bike-friendly routes to / from Lesher and meet students at specific bike stops at approximate times (+/- a few minutes). Students and parents can join the Bike Bus and bike with a parent volunteer to school. After school, volunteer parents will gather students on their bike route, leave Lesher by 2:35 (10 minutes after school lets out), and bike along the same route they took to school but in reverse. Bike Buses are planned to run on Fridays in April / May and every day during Bike Week.
Volunteer parents will have the option to attend a bike safety training led by Safe Routes to School. You can expect parents to have phones to contact families if any issues arise beyond their control. NOTE: This is put on by volunteer parents (not PSD led) and we will not share any student information.
If you are able to help lead a route, let us know! If you would like to join a route, stay tuned for more information. We hope to establish routes from the parents who can help and email them out to our Lesher community via Mr. Kotnik’s Friday newsletter in the end of March / early April.
2. Lesher’s 18th Annual Bike to School Week is May 4 - 8!
Mark your calendars: Lesher Bike Week is the first full week of May, May 4 - 8. We will have a week of bike activities before, during, and after school on every day of bike week! We have food before school, bike games during lunches, raffle prizes for participating (in the past we had bike accessories, gift cards donated from local businesses, and even bikes!), one-of-a-kind Bike Week t-shirts, and more. We would love any help we can get - your time, donations, bike connections or ideas, or bike things in usable condition (bike accessories, lights, bells, or even an old bike) - thanks in advance! Let us know if you would like to help or if you have any questions.
3. Lesher Bike Club
We hope to get a bike club going during April and May this year. The tentative plan is to meet on Mondays after school to ride and learn about bikes. Once we have a group together, we will see what we want to do and go from there! If you would like to be involved or have fun bike ideas, please let us know!
If you would like to volunteer or participate in any of these bike activities, reach out to Mr. Mayer (bmayer@psdschools.org) and / or Mr. Van Roekel (rvanroekel@psdschools.org). Let us know if you have any questions. Thanks, and go Vikings!
