7 tips if your child is starting secondary school
- Practise the new route together.
- Blind spot rule 1: stay to the right and well behind a large vehicle.
- Blind spot rule 2: keep at least 3 metres away from large vehicles on all sides.
- With the schoolbag on the back of the bike or on their back, your child will have better balance.
- Make sure they have a safe bike. You can easily check it with the VVN Bike Check.
- Make sure your child is visible in the dark and in bad weather.
- Agree that your child will cycle distraction-free, without being distracted by their phone.
Downloads
VVN has more materials and tips. Is your son or daughter starting secondary school soon? There is a brochure especially for you and your child: ‘Well prepared for the first year of secondary school. This is how you do it!’. Be sure to look at the 7 most important tips in this brochure and put them into practice together.
Practising with blind spots
With VVN’s augmented reality app ‘Out of the blind spot’, you can practise dealing with blind spots. With a lorry on the kitchen table. In this game, you search for school supplies that have fallen out of a schoolbag while cycling, putting you in blind-spot situations. Together, look at where you are safest as a cyclist.
The risks of using a smartphone while cycling
Using a smartphone while cycling is not a good idea. Yet it seems to be becoming increasingly normal. With the free Wheelie Pop app, your child learns about the risks of smartphone use and distraction while cycling through play. And the more often the game is played, the greater its effect.