Trust’s equipment aid

6:50pm Friday 29th August 2008

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AS the school record holder, district champion and Herefordshire & Worcestershire county runner-up, Steve McKenna is Lady Hawkins’ School in Kington’s high-jump star.

But he has achieved all that although there was no up-to-date practice equipment at the school.

Now, with the help of Kingspan Insulation Community Trust, the school has purchased top-notch training equipment including high-jump landing mats, poles and stands so McKenna should be able to improve his performance. And the school curriculum has a new activity.

Vicky Lambert, head of girls PE at Lady Hawkins said: “It’s been great to be able to cover all athletics events in the curriculum for the first time and, at the latest school sports day, school high jump records were set for the first time.

“We decided to apply to the Kingspan Insulation Community Trust as we have students that are already in the district athletics team and we wanted to provide them with the opportunities to give them a chance at reaching their full potential as well as offering other pupils new experiences.”

Other successful applications to the Trust have been put forward by the school enabling the purchase of a variety of keep fit equipment along with monitoring technology, including heart rate and blood pressure monitors, body fat scales, flexibility equipment and peak flow metres.

Allen Brace, head of PE commented: “This monitoring equipment provides a much more focused approach to health and fitness in the school and allows the students to evaluate and monitor their own fitness levels and devise personal programmes linked with the other sports equipment we have.”