Bike It in Chester
Lydia Wilde - Bike It officer
Read Lydia's latest Chester news here.
Contact Lydia: Bike It officer, Sustrans, Cheshire West and Chester Council, Road Safety Unit, Backford Hall, Backford, Chester CH1 6EA
Tel: 07501 017689 or email lydia.wilde@sustrans.org.uk
Lydia joined Sustrans in July 2009
"I am absolutely thrilled to be joining the Bike It team. I am extremely passionate about the environment and love working with children. I have had a bike ever since I can remember and enjoyed the freedom as a child of being able to get around under my own steam. I'm really looking forward to getting started with the schools in and around Chester and hopefully having a positive impact on the lives of many children.
I graduated as an Ecology student from the University of East Anglia and have since had various ranger type roles on nature reserves and in parks. I have run events and taught environmental education to children of various ages and backgrounds, and believe that raising awareness of environmental issues and healthy living is really important from a young age."
Lydia's schools for 2010/11:
- Cherry Grove Primary School
- Dee Point Primary School
- Guilden Sutton CE Primary School
- Highfield Community Primary School
- Hoole CE Primary School
- Kelsall Community Primary School
- Mill View Primary School
- Newton Primary School
- Oldfield Primary School
- Overleigh St Mary's CE Primary School
- St Oswald's CE Aided Primary School
- St Thomas of Canterbury Blue Coat CE Junior School
- St Werburgh's and St Columba's Catholic Primary School
- The Catholic High School, Chester A Specialist Science College
- Upton Heath CE Primary School
- Upton Westlea Primary School
- Upton-by-Chester High School
What's Lydia up to?
Love your Bike Days and The Big Pedal competition dominated this term. To celebrate Valentine's Day a week of themed events saw 271 children from five primary schools take part in cycling games, a bike wash and maintenance sessions. Other themed cycle to school days included Bling your Bike for Comic Relief and an endangered/ extinct animal theme. The Big Pedal took over the second part of the term with assemblies to tell the children all about the competition, meetings with Bike it crews to give them the skills to input bike journey data online and award presentations for the highest achievers. Pupils from nine Chester schools made an astonishing 11,690 journeys by bike to school and back over the three week duration of the race.