OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF FLAIRS GYMNASTICS PROGRAM AT TEMBALETU SCHOOL

Tuesday 17 February 2015 saw the official launch of the Flairs Gymnastics Schools Program at Tembaletu School in Gugulethu. This was a very exciting day for the team from Flairs as it was the realisation of a dream to be carrying out their schools program at a school for children with disabilities. This would not have been possible without the support of corporates Nuclear Packaging and Murray & Roberts. Both these companies have partnered with Flairs to bring the program to the school, as well as provide equipment and training support for the teachers at the school, to ensure sustainability of the program.

Flairs has been operational at the school for 3 weeks before the launch and the quality of both the teachers involved and children is amazing. Two classes of learners showed off what they had learnt in the previous 3 weeks to a very receptive group of VIPs representing the school, the corporate partners, the South African Gymnastics Federation and the City of Cape Town. In attendance was also a team from British Gymnastics’ Disability Gymnastics, who then ran a workshop with the learners and educators from both Tembaletu School and Khayelitsha Special School after the official launch.

Hazel Coates, Chairperson of Great Britain Disability Gymnastics Technical Committee was amazed at the work that Flairs had done with the Tembaletu School learners in a short space of time, and is very confident that the school will produce excellent results in gymnastics in the future. Murray & Roberts was represented by Mr Gideon Mbobo who commented about how passionate everyone was about this project and that it was a privilege to be a part of it. He was proud to be able to hand over the equipment to school principle Mr Pather on behalf of the company.

Hazel and her team ran a 2 hour long workshop with both the learners and educators exposing them to all different forms of Gymnastics and from this everyone is looking forward to even more gymnastics training. It was a wonderful morning spent together celebrating how sport can make a difference to both learning and society and ensuring that everyone has ways to push their limits regardless of their ability.