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Published Date:
09 February 2010
Pupils are being encouraged to adopt a healthier lifestyle by cycling to school and using new bike sheds.
Latimer Arts College in Barton Seagrave recently finished the refurbishment of its cycle storage area to offer students and staff somewhere to safely park their bikes.

The school is now urging people to take advantage of the new facility and cycle
to school.

Principal Siobhan Hearne said: "We are delighted with this new facility and would like to thank Northamptonshire County Council's Transport Plan adviser, Vic Marks, for his support and our own site team for working so hard on its installation.

"Our previous storage area had become dated, was not secure and was in desperate need of improving.

"Our students deserved better and this is what they now have.

"We hope that many more pupils and staff will cycle to school in the future."

The new cycle sheds were opened last week.

The new unit will provide more storage spaces for bicycles than used to be on offer for pupils.

As part of the school's travel plan, which has been created in collaboration with Mr Marks, the college successfully applied for a grant from Sustrans.

The group is the UK's leading sustainable transport charity and works to reduce the environmental impact of transport and helps to provide car-free alternatives for people.

We are calling on readers to get healthy as part of the Evening
Telegraph's Fit For Life campaign to boost the fitness of county residents.

The campaign is a drive to get more people eating healthily, doing regular exercise and making positive changes to their lifestyles.

This doesn't have to mean joining a gym and can be something as simple as cycling to school or ditching takeaways.

It can all have a significant impact on your health.

Through the Fit for Life campaign, we want to help Northamptonshire win a £1m grant from Sport England for new sports facilities.

The county will win the cash if it can increase the number of people doing exercise by 21,000 by October.

Over the next 10 months the Evening Telegraph will be running special
reports and promotions to help people get fit and healthy.



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  • Last Updated: 09 February 2010 11:34 AM
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  • Location: Kettering
 
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Laurence Lawman,

Barton Seagrave 09/02/2010 12:21:17
It's funny how the article fails to mention that all pupils have been informed that anyone wishing to cycle to LAC are now to be charged to park their bikes there. Hardly an incentive is it? What with this and the farcical fence debacle, the new principal is hardly endearing herself to parents, or indeed the community of Barton Seagrave.
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flash_blade,

Barton Seagrave 09/02/2010 12:54:31
Please Lawrence, tell me the charging bit is a bad joke! You have to wonder don't you. They fence the school off, add significant distant to most peoples journey and then ask them to cycle on much busier roads (which even the Police are concerned about) and then charge them to park their bikes! It can't be true. Totally gob-smacked. And they got a grant to pay for it, so it's not as if they have to re-coup their money!
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Feline42,

Rushden 09/02/2010 20:48:29
It's good to get them to use their bikes, but if they're like some of the muppets at Rushden college, then motorists BEWARE! They dart out of side streets without a care for the traffic. Forcing motorists to brake hard, and when reprimanded by the motorist, stop and either laugh that they nearly had a collision or give abuse.
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lcfcpaul,

kettering 10/02/2010 10:45:34
was told by my daughter that somebody has already had their bike stolen from the new shed!!!! pupils were also told that if they are to cycle to school there bikes must have brakes that work yet the picture in the et shows the principal standing next to a bike that has no front brakes!!!!! and have you heard about the other 'rule' that has been introduced where pupils are not allowed to be in groups of more than 4 at break times!!!!
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steve5533,

Barton Seagrave 10/02/2010 23:20:06
I presume the school needed a grant from Sustrans because Ms Hearne has blown the schools budget on the pointless fence and large self-aggrandizing sign?Does this woman know she only had one chance to create a good impression and she has blown it,best to go now Siobhan.
By the way,if it is true that the school is charging to use the cycle sheds,surely that breaches the terms of the grant from Sustrans,a charity that promotes the freedom of cycling?
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concerned mother of 3,

Barton Seagrave 26/02/2010 11:19:49
This paying to keep your bike safe while at school has got to be a joke?? how much does she expect? I can't believe this is true. And as far as i could see this morning the shed is not finished and has no bikes in it. I wonder if this new head teacher is doing more harm than good to this school?? On a good note tho she has been leaving the gates open between the 2 schools for the little 1s to get to school, for now anyway.
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