CHILDREN hopped on their bicycles or scooters to lap the school playground and raise cash for new equipment.

Foundation and nursery pupils from Bure Park School, Lucerne Avenue, Bicester, were sponsored to each complete 10 circuits of their playground in an end of term bikeathon.

Cash raised will be used to buy new bikes for the school.

Teacher Cathy Harris said more than 100 youngsters, aged three to five, took part in the challenge.

She said: “We asked the children what they liked to play with best at school and they said bikes.

“So we thought we would combine their love of bikes with a fund raising activity and came up with the bikeathon.

“The children loved it – there were lots of smiling faces.

“So of them did find it challenging, but the majority flew around.”