Olympian Jess Piasecki put pupils through their paces as she helped kick off National School Sports Week at Kensington Primary School in East London, part of The Tapscott Learning Trust. The Manchester-born athlete finished 71st in the women’s marathon at the Olympic Games in Tokyo with a time of 2:55:39.
National School Sports Week is a campaign run by children’s charity the Youth Sport Trust. In a bid to drive up awareness of the Chief Medical Officers’ guidance and boost children’s physical activity levels, the charity is this week hoping to get more children ‘playing for fun, playing for 60’ between 19 and 25 June.
Originally launched in 2008, National School Sports Week attempts to champion the role of PE, physical activity, and school sports in allowing all pupils to reach their full potential. And the 2019 Florence Marathon winner was impressed by the enthusiasm shown by students at the East Ham school.
