Today our Year 4/5 class travelled to Moonah Sports Stadium to participate in wheelchair basketball.

Our students had a lot of fun participating in the warm up activities and the wheelchair basketball games. To begin with they thought it would be really easy but actually found manoeuvring around in the games quite challenging!

The session was run in collaboration with Richard from Para Quad Tasmania and we thank him for this amazing opportunity for our students.

To finish the session, Richard spoke to us about disabilities and how we should treat people who live with a disability.

Here are some comments from our students:

• Alex S – moving around in the wheelchair was fun but it would be hard being in a wheelchair all the time.
• Peppa – I enjoyed playing wheelchair basketball.
• Kaiah – I found it challenging to start with to get used to it.
• Henry – It was hard moving around in the wheelchair. During one of the wheelchair basketball games I scored a goal.
• Adam - I enjoyed moving for the ball in the wheelchair.