6 of the staff at SEND School Bower Grove in Maidstone will be running in relay from school to Paris on May 10 and 11 to raise money for their summer fair.
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00:00It'll be about a marathon each, and yeah, they'll be running, obviously, one at a time
00:07and then following along in a support car as well.
00:09Yeah, so around about a marathon, possibly a bit more.
00:12Yeah, I think they've been out on a few training runs together, I think some have done a little
00:17bit more training than others, but they all, most of them come from either quite a, you
00:23know, a bit of a fitness background, they all enjoy keeping fit, but I think for some
00:28of them, it's, this is a challenge they haven't really taken on before, but everyone's really
00:33excited on the day at school, we've got quite a few things going on, we've got a big assembly,
00:38we're all going to be lined up on the field, you know, waving them through with some banners
00:43and flags that we're making, making sure we see them off, because they'll be going first
00:46thing in the morning on Friday.
00:47Yeah, so it's a sort of, it's a social, emotional, mental health school, with a sort of focus
00:53on behavioural needs, a lot of our pupils will come from, you know, very deprived backgrounds,
01:02and we, as a school, we really try to make sure they have as many authentic experiences
01:06in a range of things, whether it be sports, whether it be the arts, whether it be, you
01:11know, these authentic life experiences that, you know, make sure that not everyone gets
01:16to experience, but whilst they're here, we try and do our best to make sure they get
01:21some really amazing experiences, and hopefully inspire them to, you know, do things, you
01:29know, whether it be going to a music festival and going, do you know what, I'd really like
01:32to play guitar, or, you know, seeing the adults do this amazing feat of running and go, do
01:39you know what, I might start doing some running, I might start doing some fundraising, just,
01:43you know, a little bit about inspiration, a little bit about, you know, different experiences,
01:47so yeah.