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Poll: Bike stands yes/no?
A Bike-stand at college?
Lara Mallia, SEPTA (Yr 1)
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School is an excellent place to create and maintain good healthy habits. Did you know that students who are physically active tend to have better grades, classroom behavior and improved concentration? One way to promote an active lifestyle is riding a bicycle to school. In doing so, students, parents and the community as a whole will enjoy the benefits cycling brings with it.
1. It promotes exercise as part of a healthy and active lifestyle
2. Reduces traffic and parking problems close to the college gates
A bike stand at the college would encourage students, and their parents, to choose bicycles as an alternative mode of transportation while putting their mind at ease that the bicycles are kept safe during school hours. Parents cycling to school with their children will not have to worry about how to take the bike back home, since the children would be able to keep it at the college during school hours. Storage doesn’t need to be covered, it just needs to be secure.
So stay safe and pedal on!
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Editorial
The Importance of Inclusivity
One of the worst feelings in the world is the ‘feeling left out’ one. This feeling preys on all our insecurities, bringing out all sorts of negativities: ‘I’m not loveable’ or ‘I’m not important’ or ‘No One wants me’. To be sure, it is rarely the case that people go out of their way to leave someone out, but it rankles. It makes people feel different and not in a nice way.
These days we talk a lot about inclusivity and mainstreaming. Yest, as often happens we look to other and not to ourselves. How are we showing our children that we are all God’s creatures, whatever our ability, gender, shape or form? When was it last that we highlighted similarities rather than differences? As I was reading the lovely piece penned by Isaac Brimmer Cassar, I saw lovely smiles of every colour...and my heart warmed.
Let’s focus on what makes us similar and move on from there!
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