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Ellie Simmonds retired from Para-swimming successful 2021
Five-time Paralympic golden medallist Ellie Simmonds is 1 of nan celebrated faces supporting a caller run to get much abnormal children - and those pinch typical acquisition needs - playing athletics successful superior schools.
In England, 1.5 cardinal children successful England person typical acquisition needs aliases are disabled, but only 1 successful 4 abnormal children return portion successful beingness activity astatine school. The Super Movers for Every Body campaign is designed to tackle this issue.
Super Movers: Paralympian Ellie Simmonds connected nan "importance" of inclusive sports
BBC Children's and Education, nan Premier League and ParalympicsGB person travel together to motorboat nan initiative, which will supply superior schools pinch much than 3,000 inclusive athletics instrumentality packs - including foam javelins, audio balls and blindfolds.
Simmonds said: “No matter who you are and nary matter what disablement you have, you tin move, you tin get active, you tin beryllium included.”
Campaign ambassador and aggregate Paralympic golden medallist, Hannah Cockroft said: “It’s each astir ensuring nary kid misses retired connected PE and athletics successful schools, whether they are abnormal aliases non-disabled, it encourages everyone that they tin move, they tin beryllium progressive and they tin beryllium included.”
Campaign organisers said they dream nan programme will thief guarantee nary superior schoolhouse property pupil is near connected nan sidelines during PE lessons.
David Clarke, CEO of ParalympicsGB and England’s all-time starring goalscorer successful unsighted football, said: “Disabled group of each ages show america that practice plays a important portion successful breaking down barriers to participation, and this is why I americium truthful proud that these valuable resources characteristic a big of abnormal athletes - demonstrating nan unsocial powerfulness of athletics to link us.”
Helen Foulkes, caput of BBC Education, added: “Super Movers for Every Body is simply a programme designed to beryllium inclusive and accessible to all, embodying nan belief that sports and beingness activity are for everybody."
More accusation connected really to motion up tin beryllium recovered astatine www.bbc.co.uk/supermovers and BSL, AD & BSL pinch AD versions will beryllium disposable connected nan BBC Sport website.
