PUPILS at Grappenhall Hall School will be leading the way in urban sports now they have their own 70 sq ft parkour unit, thought to be one of the first of its kind in the country.
The school, a specialist centre for those with emotional and behavioural difficulties, paid for the unit with £14,000 funding from the local School Sports Partnership, the Big Lottery Fund and the Shepherd Street Trust charity.
The unit, which has split levels and cushioned flooring, will allow the youngsters to take part in free-running sessions.
Free-running is a form of urban acrobatics in which participants use the city and rural landscape to perform movements.
Graham Chatterley, PE teacher, started the sessions in the school gym, with the help of experts, after reports his pupils were trying out the sport locally. He is now looking into providing other urban sports at the school.
He said: “They were getting in trouble for climbing on roofs and we thought those skills could be focused. There are lots of similarities with gymnastics and we can teach it without children getting into trouble.”
A launch event will take place at the school on November 4, when a company of urban performers will demonstrate Parkour activity on the new equipment
PUPILS at a Warrington school will be leading the way in urban
sports now they have their own 70 sq ft parkour unit, thought to be one
of the first of its kind in the country.
Leading the way in urban sports
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