Our annual school Halloween Sponsored Cycle took place on Wednesday 25th Oct. The weather gods were with us again and we were so fortunate with the beautiful weather after a wet start to the week. We had some fabulous sunshine ensuring that the cycle would be a great day ahead!
We had 2 options this year for the pupils to choose from:
A 7k cycle around Ballykane or school based activities (which were all cycle based as well) The children based in school had the option to bring any wheels except electric and were asked to dress their wheels if the wished to so. Sam Ryan in our Junior room won the best dressed wheels on the day and received a lovely cert and treat bag. Well done Sam!
Our school based cycle was fantastic fun and we set up a course on the tarmac for our junior cyclists who managed brilliantly and really enjoyed it. The older cyclists then had the run of the school grounds marked out to enjoy and had great fun. There were lots of drink breaks had and some pupils swopped out their bikes for scooters which they also really enjoyed. Everyone had great fun!
The rest of the crew had the very serious task of cycling 7k to Ballykane. We were delighted to have lots of our Junior room pupils this year choosing to do the cycle and they managed it amazingly. The children well and truly proved that we are a very active school and faced the task of a long cycle head on. Everyone really enjoyed it on the day and done a fantastic job completing the 7k as it isn’t an easy cycle so well done to everyone.
After both cycles were complete we all had some much needed refreshments and Halloween treats.
The day was a fantastic success achieved only by the help and volunteering of our parents who were road marshals, who cycled alongside our pupils, who ran behind the pupils and who helped supervise our school based cycle and provided refreshments. Thank you to everyone who helped out on the day, we couldn’t of done it without you.
Thank you also to our parent reps who helped in organizing the event and provided the treat bags for our pupils
We are still awaiting all sponsor cards to be returned to the school but once we have a final figure we will let parents know!
Again thank you to everyone for all your help and a huge well done to all our pupils and teachers for taking part in the event.
Check out all our fantastic photos and videos that were captured on the day.
