A school in The Hague, and a bamboo bike built by hand
International Schools Programme | Netherlands | December 2017 In December 2017, pupils at a school in The Hague, Netherlands built seven bamboo bicycles using BBC's educational starter kit — proving the concept internationally....
In December 2017, a student at a school we work with in The Hague finished building a bamboo bicycle of their own — part of our work taking bike-building into classrooms beyond the UK.
Context
The Netherlands lives on two wheels. Working with a school in The Hague meant teaching young people to build the kind of machine many of them already ride every day — turning daily transport into something they understood from the inside out.
What we did
We ran a school build with students in The Hague: choosing and preparing the bamboo, measuring, cutting, building up the joints and assembling a complete, rideable frame. Several bikes were produced over the project, finished by the students themselves.
The outcome
At least one student completed and kept a bamboo bicycle they had built — photographed proud with the finished bike on completion day. It is one of our early examples of running a school programme outside the UK.
Why it matters
School programmes carry the craft to the next generation: a young builder who will understand bicycles differently for the rest of their life. They also extend our education mission beyond adult workshops and across borders.
Links
- Original post: Build by a school we work with in The Hague (21 December 2017)
- Related: The BBC Educational Kit — making schools programmes scalable
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