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Ilford Grammar School are looking to inspire young people in our school, all of whom are able bodied, to raise awareness about disabilities, to help dispel myths about Sport and disability and to support disabled people in the Paralympics to learn more about their abilities and their determination and spirit to win.



The photos shown here are of our Year 9 and Year 10 children using wheel chairs at our Sports Centre to try to imagine how it would feel to be unable to walk if they were disabled and every effort will be made to make as much information available to them through the Paralympic School Pack 2006 - 2012 which can be accessed via www.abilityvability.co.uk which is an absolutely excellent source of information containing a Learning Zone and a Fact Zone which is very interesting.



One of our teachers Mr. Jonathan Wiggs (Pictured here) will walk 63 miles in Belgium in support of paraplegic people to raise funds to help them in many ways with their disabilities.



The pupils and other teachers of the school will be involved in walking a collective equivalent number of miles around the park and local area over the next few months and they will seek sponsorship from kind members of their friends and family to help raise funds to be contributed to the Charity for Paraplegics.

This Project will start 18^th May when Mr. Jonathan Wiggs starts his 63 mile walk over a three day period in Belgium and the sponsored walks for the pupils in the school will commence during the week of 28th May after KS2 and KS3 SATs are completed.

Please Sponsor your children to collect as much as possible for this very worthwhile charity over the next few weeks. Videos of the teacher and pupil walks will be on this site for all to see.

We thank you all in advance and please look out for the sponsor forms.

Ilford Grammar School's children and parents have always involved ourselves in supporting charities. Our regular charities are the NSPCC and Great Ormond Street Hospital and we regularly raise monies well over £1,000 for which all the pupils are very happy to become involved.

The school's last donation raised an amazing £3,068.72p for the NSPCC and was the largest amount that any small school in the Borough of Redbridge had collected in one go - it was all raised by children, parents and staff on sponsored walks and runs in this school and we would love to improve on this amount.