Here's the details of my day learning to cycle - with primary school kids.

It should be in the paper this week but I thought I'd put it up here first.

EXCITED schoolchildren rush to the next lesson - safe cycling.

The pupils are aged 10 or younger but they are learning to boldly mix with cars, not skulk on the pavement.

Bradshaw Lane Primary School in Grappenhall has been taking part in the Bikeability Course'.

It is a training programme Warrington Borough Council has paid company Bike Right to bring to more than 20 of the town's schools.

I took my bike along to see what I could learn from the instructors - and also from the pupils.

They could hardly wait to don their helmets and high visibility vests and start practising what they had learned on the playground - slow cycling, hand signals, brake testing and more.

The class stereotypes were there - the scruffy kid with his vest to his knees who was actually pretty good, and the poor boy who kept having problem after problem, and called weakly from the back of the class for help.

The instructor Will Woods, a 41-year-old from Charles Avenue in Great Sankey, who used to be a top time-trialist, walked them to nearby Coronation Avenue to practice manoeuvres.

And they took pride in doing everything correctly, even as couple of slightly older, and slightly idiotic, teenagers cycled dangerous on and off the pavements in an attempt to show off.

I tried to learn from them and picked up some good tips, then, unknown to the kids, did a series of manoeuvres incorrectly on purpose.

A chorus of excited schoolboys could hardly contain its frustration at me - one went from shouting look over your shoulder' to just slapping his hands against his face in amazement and screaming shoulder!' A session of advanced adult training on Knutsford Road from Bike Right instructor Matthew Walklet finished off the morning.

But it was the schoolchildren who were most impressive. If they keep it up, they'll be safe on the roads, they'll be fit, and they wont be adding to the town's number one source of pollution; cars.