WIN a trip to the Olympic
Stadium next April for
your school!

Are you ready to go for Gold? Get your school involved
in the build up to London 2012 by taking on Olympic
and Paralympic sports to raise funds for vital medical
research into child health.

Challenge your pupils to cover 2012kms by running, walking, cycling,
swimming, kayaking… just choose your sports and commit to raising funds
for Action Medical Research.

Register before the end of November to be in with a chance to take part in
the Gold Challenge Stadium Parade in the Olympic Stadium.

Click onto the link to find out more.

http://familygoldchallenge.org

To get you started, they are offering a free sports kit to those schools who register on line. The kit will arrive in Sept 11 and will give you the chance to play some of the following Paralympic sports: Goalball, Sitting Volleyball and Blind Football.

To register your school go on line to: click (www.sainsbury’s.co.uk/1millionkids)

The School Games will officially start in September 2011, where a number of competitive sports will involve young children from year 3 to 13 taking part.

It will consist of 4 levels:

• Intra school competitions
• Regular local interschool competitions
• Annual area/county multi sports school games festivals
• National multi sport events.

Ellie, who won two gold medals at the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing aged 13, visited children at William Beamont High, where a house is named after her.

The swimmer, who was also the youngest person ever to be awarded an MBE in 2009, said: “I try and visit the William Beamont every year. Everyone was super friendly and I saw loads of people that I recognised and I can’t wait to come back next year.”

She also visited St Peter’s Catholic Primary School as part of their disability awareness day and said: “I’d never been to St Peter’s and they had a whole day about sport and people with disabilities so it was great to see what they’d been up to.”

Ellie is also spearheading Sainsbury’s Active Kids campaign that supports sports events in schools. It launches in Warrington next week.

The event was organised by Competition Manager, David Quartermain and the cluster schools involved were:
Cluster                                   Participant Schools
Cardinal Newman                St Peters
Penketh                                    Penketh Community
Lysander                                 Christchurch
Bridgewater                            Stockton Heath / St Matthews
Lymm                                        Statham / Ravenbank
Great Sankey                          Barrow Hall
Woolston                                  Bruche
Culcheth                                   St Helens / Croft

Interest in Sportshall athletics has grown over the last few years, thanks to the repeated staging of the Y5/6 event.  A year 7 / 8 event is also due to run, which will be useful for secondary schools looking to identify talented athletes in the run up to the summer season.

More details regarding the Warrington School Sport Partnership’s Sportshall Athletics Final is to follow shortly.