MP: 'Beetham school is a big pedal winner'

Local MP Tim Farron has today congratulated Beetham Primary School who have won the title of Overall England Winner in the Small Primary category of a national competition.

Beetham CE Primary School, took part in the Big Pedal in the category 'schools under 150 pupils' and had amazing success, making a total of 525 journeys by bike or scooter.

The national event, which is sponsored by SUSTRANS, encourages families to travel to school by bike or scooter. Each journey earns points which were entered into a website database on a daily basis by Year 5 & 6 pupils. The school had whole families travelling to school by bike, with adults scooting and younger brothers and sisters coming on all sorts of push-a-longs and balance bikes.

The school came 3^rd in the UK ,1^st in England, 1^st in the North West and 1^st in Cumbria out of 188 schools in their category.

Tim said: "This is fantastic news and I want to pay tribute to the pupil, staff and parents at Beetham School for this fantastic achievement. The Big Pedal is a great way to get more pupils cycling to and from school. Coming 1^st in Cumbria and 3^rd nationwide is a brilliant achievement!"