It's Back To School For Team GB Star, But What A Reception!

Kare Adenegan, Bablake's young Paralympic star, returned to Bablake today to a wonderful reception from our Senior and Junior School pupils and staff.

Kare's return, in her Team GB kit and racing chair, was marked by all pupils from the school cheering her down our school drive and main terrace and waving union jack flags. At the end of her short journey, she was greeted by Chair of Governors Mrs Julia McNaney, Headmaster Mr John Watson, Sixth form student Peter Cusack (England wheelchair basketball player) and three of her close friends, Anna, Charlotte and Emma, who each presented her with one of the medals won in Rio earlier this month.

An emotional morning for Kare, her family and the whole Bablake community was concluded with an impromptu Q and A session from our Junior School pupils before her return to lessons! Earlier Kare's form tutor Mrs Jade Russell (also Head of Girls' PE) was brimming with pride as she was interviewed by the local media, BBC Cov and Warks and Midlands Today.

It has been a fantastic Olympic year for Team GB, and Bablake is very proud to be connected to the most experienced gold medal winner from the summer games, former pupil Nick Skelton, and now the youngest Paralympic athlete in the team, who will be going for gold in Tokyo in 2020!

An excellent video snapshot of the morning, filmed by Mr Malcolm Wyatt (Theatre and Events Technician), may be viewed here.

Photograph by Mr Andrew Phillips.