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Project Ability Success!!
Warrington SSP and William Beamont Community High School have been successful in their bid to become a ‘Project Ability’ school. Project Ability aims to establish a national network of 50 of the most successful mainstream and special schools at providing opportunities for young disabled pupils to take part in sport. These schools will receive funding [...]
Disability Football
Prior to the Warrington Wolves game against the Crusaders on Friday 15th April the newly formed Wolves Foundation Disability Football team had a training session and match on the Halliwell Jones Stadium pitch. The youngsters play in the Liverpool County FA Ability Counts League which holds fixture evenings every month which also include teams from Everton [...]
Phoenix Fire ABC’s Gym
Inclusive boxing sessions run every Wednesday from 5pm until 6pm at Phoenix Fire ABC Gym at Warrington Fire Station and the cost is just £2. BBC North West are due to film 17 yr old boxing coach Brad Gleave, (who is the first wheelchair user in the country to earn a boxing leaders award), delivering [...]
New Government Website – Your School Games
Today sees the launch of the government’s new website; Your School Games! In the run up to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games, log onto their website for more information on how to register your school and so creating a year round calendar of competitions for all your students. The School Games will officially start in September [...]
Aiming High for Disabled Children Newsletter – Issue 7
This is the seventh issue of our bi-monthly newsletter and we have given an update on how we are delivering the Aiming High Programme in Warrington. It also provides information for parents about activities and groups suitable for disabled children. The newsletter has been sent to all families on the Aiming High Database. Aiming High [...]
Sir Steve supports School Sport
Steve Redgrave, speaking from the launch of the Matalan ‘Sporting Promise’ programme at Sport City on 12th November (an event at which children from Warrington School Sport Partnership – Grappenhall Hall – were present) said that there ‘had never been a more important time to be increasing sporting opportunities for young people’. Read the full [...]
The Paralympics Manchester 2010
On Tuesday 25th May the Olympic Working Party visited Manchester Sports City to watch the athletic events at the Paralympics. It was sponsored by BT. We all thought that is was a fantastic day and it was inspirational to see those adults who had turned their disability into something very positive. Rather than feel pity [...]
Disability Awareness Day
The Northwest Disability Awareness Day 2009 took place on Sunday, July 12th and was another resounding success hailed as the best ever. These are truly excellent events and those of you who missed it this year may like to note that plans are already underway for Disability Awareness Day 2010 which will be held on [...]
New year’s resolution – MEND your ways
Top tips to help children and their families get fitter and healthier in the New Year has been launched today by child obesity experts at MEND (Mind, Exercise, Nutrition…Do it!). Every year in Britain at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve, over 80%* of us make a new year’s resolution, unsurprisingly the most [...]
Parkour arrives in Warrington!!
PE staff are starting to include ‘free running’ in lessons to stop pupils practising the daredevil pursuit in public places. Teachers are including potentially dangerous “free running” in PE lessons to keep pupils safe after communities complained they were being terrorised by untrained children attempting the underground urban sport. The boom in popularity of parkour [...]