Panathlon Challenge

November 2011

• Southview School Storm to Victory

  Posted: Thursday 24th November 2011
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  Southview School from Witham won a highly competitive Panathlon Challenge today at Braintree College, against 3 other schools in Essex.
  
  The multi-sports competition event took place today, Thursday 24^th November at Braintree College and saw around 100 disabled children from Tendring, Colchester and Witham taking part in 5 sports. The students from Marketfield School, Shorefield School, Lexden Springs School and Southview School will be competed in Boccia, Kurling, Polybat, Table Cricket and Athletics.

  Southview won 4 out of the 5 events and came 2nd in the other ! A remarkably strong performance from the Witham School.
  
  

  The event was funded by investment from Hilton in the Community Foundation, Jack Petchey Foundation and the Woodland Group. Additionally Hilton London Stansted and Woodland provided staff members as volunteers for the day. The Panathlon charity has invested around £25,000 thanks to this funding in sports equipment, coaching sessions and multi-sports competitions in Essex during 2011, creating sporting opportunities for disabled youngsters in ten school sport partnership areas.

  The Panathlon Challenge is now in its twelfth successful year of delivering sporting opportunities and “mini-paralympic” type competitions for young disabled sports people.

  Danny Crates, Paralympic Champion and Panathlon charity patron says:” I’ve witnessed some great Panathlon events in the last year and the performances by young disabled athletes have been inspiring. The investment from Hilton in the Community Foundation and the Woodland Group is making a huge difference to hundreds of disabled young people in Essex.”
  
  Robert Watts, Manager of the Hilton London Stansted said, “Our community work is an important part of our hospitality philosophy and our team is thrilled to be able to support Panathlon as a result. Giving these young people the opportunities to show their talents and skills is the best possible way for us to show our support for them.”

  
  

• Central London School Games Pilot Success

  Posted: Tuesday 8th November 2011
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  The first Panathlon School Games event took place today at Westway Sports Centre in London. 12 Schools from central London took part, having qualified from earlier rounds of Panathlon, in 4 sports which have also been chosen by the new Government School Games. They were Boccia, Polybat, Table Cricket and New Age Kurling.
  
  80 students took part in an event funded by the British Paralympic Trust who kindly donated the funds to Panathlon to deliver this ground breaking event. Panathlon also worked with Boccia England who ran a talent ID and Classification process with our wheelchair athletes and picked up some new potential talent to route through their competition status.
  
  Additionally Panathlon utilised some of the deaf and hearing impaired students from Oak Lodge school in Wandsworth where we ran a Boccia Young Officials Course in the Summer. Panathlon therfore giving these up and coming aspiring officials the chance to put in to practice their new skills.
  
  After a very competitive days action, the four winners were -
  Boccia - Swiss Cottage (Camden)
  Polybat - Lilian Baylis (Lambeth)
  New Age Kurling - College Park (Westminster) and
  Table Cricket - Lilian Baylis (Lambeth)
  
  Many congratulations to all that took part. Check out the Blog and Gallery section for more action ! We look forward to seeing you all soon.
  
  Lilian Baylis School - Champions !