LONDON, 2014-9-26— /EPR Retail News/ — St Thomas’ Primary School in Sevenoaks was selected from 17,000 schools to win a bounty of sports and cooking equipment, as well as a visit from Paralympic champion and Sainsbury’s Active Kids ambassador, Ellie Simmonds OBE.
The school entered a national competition to win its entire Active Kids equipment order, which was placed after parents and teachers collected Active Kids vouchers from Sainsbury’s stores earlier this year.
Ellie Simmonds officially presented the grand prize to children in a special assembly, before donning an apron and helping children to whip up some healthy treats in a cookery lesson.
As the school receives their entire order for free, including foam javelins, basketballs and a pack providing everything they need to get cooking. They will be able to use the vouchers collected this year to order even more equipment in 2015.
Tara Hewitt, Head of Sponsorship for Sainsbury’s, said: “Thousands of schools up and down the country are receiving their Active Kids equipment orders this month, which will set them up to deliver really fun and engaging sports and nutrition lessons. This year we added more cooking equipment to help schools meet new curriculum requirements. To celebrate this, we wanted to make an extra special delivery for one school by providing their entire order for free, and surprising the children with a visit and cookery lesson from Ellie Simmonds.”
Ellie Simmonds, Paralympic Champion and Active Kids ambassador, said: “After swimming, baking is my second passion so I’m really excited about today’s visit to St Thomas’ to help out with a cookery lesson. As well as getting kids active, it is equally important they understand about the food they eat, so the combination of sports equipment and kitchen equipment really helps with this.”
Notes to Editors
Active Kids aims to inspire and enable children to take more exercise and to eat healthily. Launched in 2005, Active Kids is open to all nursery, primary and secondary schools, as well as Scouts, Girl Guides and sports clubs in the UK. Over 53,000 organisations are now registered and £136 million worth of equipment and experiences have been donated since 2005.
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