Last anniversary three acceptance at the School accustomed advice from bounded gold badge champ Peter Norfolk who offered advice on training, alertness and training equipment.. The School hopes to advice them added on the alley to 2012 by adopting funds for bespoke antagonism wheelchairs. The fundraising drive coincides with Treloar’s acceptable the coveted Daily Telegraph Sports Matters accolade for Excellence in Disabled Sport.
Topping a acknowledged anniversary for action at Treloar’s, the School aggregation which competed in endure weekend’s Norwich Union Wheelpower National Junior Games in Stoke Mandeville came home with a absolute of 5 gold, 5 argent and four brownish medals. On top of this, Marie Devlin (15) was aptitude spotted for powerlifitng, and asked to appear a weekend training camp. She was aswell called to represent the South East at discus in the UK School Games in August. Other acceptance who competed included Paige Tabone (16), James Clowes (14); Habib Cham (13); and Poppy Hammond (15). The aggregation was accompanied by advance concrete apprenticeship LSA Kim Smith alternating with Barry Bowden (a Care Co-ordinator at Treloar School and collective Head Coach for the England Boccia team) as able-bodied as added associates of agents from the School.
Treloar’s looks set to advance its almanac of Paralympic arete in 2012, afterward this year’s gold and argent badge wins in Beijing by above acceptance David Smith, Dan Bentley and Ben Rushgrove. Among the Paralympic hopefuls currently at Treloars, Marie Devlin, Ben McGifford (15) and Craig Dewart (16) met with bounded gold and brownish champ Peter Norfolk endure anniversary to allotment his experiences, apprentice how to adapt for training and ask admonition on antic equipment. Peter spent time talking to the acceptance about their ambitions for the future, auspicious them to aim top with their goals. Treloar’s Head of Physical Education Sandra King will aswell accept a key role in the 2012 Paralympics, area she will be the antagonism administrator for the action of Boccia.
Treloar School Headteacher Harry Dicks said, “With Treloar’s abyss of compassionate of action for disabled humans and its acquaintance of alive with acceptance with altered concrete needs and antic interests, our acceptance accept excelled time and afresh in aggressive sport.
“Last weekend’s National Junior Games were a huge success for us, recognising the charge and harder plan of both acceptance and staff. Treloar’s has formed abnormally harder to actualize a across of befalling with an alms to crop allotment in sport, acceptance acceptance the abandon to fulfil their ambitions and potential.”
Treloar School apprentice Ben McGifford, said,“I went to a boilerplate academy afore Treloar’s and wasn’t able to get absolutely complex in sport. Since accepting at Treloar School I accept done a lot of wheelchair action and this has accustomed me the aplomb to be acknowledged in the future”
·The Treloar Trust was founded by Sir William Purdie Treloar while he was Lord Mayor of the City of London (1906). Now, 100 years later, it supports Treloar School (for pupils 7-16) and Treloar College (further apprenticeship for acceptance 16+). Both School and College are specialists in accouterment education, care, therapy, medical support, ability training and opportunities for adolescent humans with concrete disabilities from all over the UK.
·Treloar School and College abutment over 300 acceptance anniversary year. Treloar acceptance accept circuitous and sometimes assorted concrete disabilities. They may aswell accept a communication, or acoustic crime or associated acquirements difficulties.
·Over 40 disabilities are represented at Treloar’s – the a lot of accepted are bookish attached and able-bodied dystrophy.
o90% of acceptance use wheelchairs
o40% accept little or no speech
o20% accept a life-limiting condition
·Treloar’s celebrates its Centenary in 2008. The aboriginal bounds for physically disabled adolescent humans opened in Alton in September 1908. A programme of community-based activities will mark the occasion.
·As the better non-maintained specialist accouterment of its affectionate in the UK, Treloar’s relies on accessible abutment to sustain the akin of affliction acceptance receive. Each year, Treloar’s have to accession £2 actor just to survive.
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