Two Team GB Paralympic athletes, one a Gold Medal winner, presented children from local schools with their winning medals at an inclusive sports day organised by Buxton College.
More than 70 children from High Peak schools; Buxton Junior School, Whaley Bridge School, Chapel High School, St Luke’s Primary School, Peak Dale Primary School, Peak Forest School and Fairfield Endowed School, enjoyed learning and playing a raft of new sports at the event held at Buxton College’s Harpur Hill sports centre.
The children competed against each other in tournaments of goalball, seated volleyball, tic-tag relay and sprint relay; sports designed to be played on level terms by people with and without a disability which will be played later this summer at the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
Special guests Team GB Paralympic footballer Jordan Raynes, who competed in Beijing in 2008, and cyclist Anthony Kappes, who won two Gold medals in Beijing and will compete again in London 2012, both dropped into the event to hand out medals and share the secrets of their success.
Jordan Raynes, who now works as a Disability Officer for Stockport County Community Foundation, said: “Children of all abilities competed on an equal footing and had fun. We have shown how sports can be adapted to make them inclusive – which is the way sport should be.”
Buxton College Sports students, from the left, Matt Hoare and Jacob Bagshaw, Alice Wright and Karen Wardley from Buxton College with Paralympian Jordan Raynes, and three of the winning goalball team from St Luke’s Primary School
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