Tregib’s Dance and Wave

Pupils at Tregib Comprehensive School have been getting active on their feet in two very different ways.

The youngsters have been taking advantage of the good local surfing conditions and braving the sea to take part in extra curricular 5x60 activities. 

Nia Jones, a pupil at Tregib, has been taking part in surfing. She said:

"It's brilliant to have a chance to surf every week and I have managed to stand up on the board a few times now. Without 5x60 I wouldn't have had this opportunity."

And as part of national School Sport Week there was a day of dancing as pupils from Llandeilo and Dyffryn Taf were given the opportunity to experience the top of the range dance mats being used in the county to get the youngsters active.

Gwenno Davies, an Adistar Young Ambassador at Tregib said:

"It was crazy, we even had about 20 teachers at lunch time dancing behind the pupils and we must have had hundreds of pupils down here throughout the day."

5x60 is a Sport Wales initiative, funded by the Welsh Assembly Government and run locally by Carmarthenshire Council's sports development department. It is all about getting secondary school children active for at least 60 minutes, five times a week.

Lyn Brodrick, 5x60 Officer at Tegib explained:

"We try and think of as many ways as possible to get the pupils active - and particularly when they make suggestions for things they would like to do.

"For pupils who don't get involved in traditional activities and sports, things like surfing and dance and proving popular ways to get them exercising.

"Its great to see so many pupils enjoying the natural environment we have here Carmarthenshire through sports like mountain biking and surfing."

County exectuive board member for leisure services Cllr Clive Scourfield said:

"It is tremendoes to see so many getting involved in participation acitivities that is not only getting them healthy and out and about but also socialising and bonding in a competitive manner. The 5x60 programme is doing so much to encourage paticipartion and others to try sports and activities they would never have the chancd to otherwise."