BTEC Level 3 Sport students take part in several events as sports leaders, to support work within their course and to gain experience of leading a variety of young people with varied disabilities and needs. This is so important for our students as it gives them great opportunities to become an all-rounded individual with lots of experiences with working with different people.

Year 12 and some of our Year 13 BTEC sport students attended the Panathlon event on Tuesday 7^th November at the London Aquatic Centre in Stratford and helped lead the event. They worked with pupils with multiple disabilities and needs aged from 7-18 and were fantastic. 

The students were phenomenal and we received multiple comments and emails with lots of fantastic feedback from the organisers and schools about our Great Baddow High School students.

One email said:

"Can we all thank the leaders from Great Baddow High School. They were all brilliant, both in and out the pool and I thought they were great with all the kids and helped them enjoy themselves."

 Students who attended the event said:

Lisa L (Year 12) - "I really enjoyed working with the young pupils, they made me happy seeing them so happy and proud of themselves being able to get in the water and compete."

Fraser C  (Year 12) – "It was really good to see them getting involved in sport considering their different needs and it was so nice to be involved with helping them to achieve."

Olly P (Year 13) – "I really enjoyed doing the Panathlon because it’s nice to help give these young people opportunities that they might be able to access, it was awesome to get to know the kids and one of them became my buddy and actually knew my name the whole day."

We were also fortunate enough to spend a bit of time with the Great Britain divers in their elite environment. This included meeting Olympic diver Tom Daley, which we were all very excited about.