Burmor ‘chips in’ with school’s vision to improve Sports Participation, Health and Wellbeing.

South View Primary School installs Crazy Golf course to improve Sports Participation, Health and Wellbeing.

On 4th September, the children of South View returned from their summer break to find that a Crazy Golf course had been installed on their school field by Burmor Construction. Darren Green (Defects and Small Works Manager) led on the project with team members, Billy and John, also playing a huge part of the installation. This project also wouldn’t have been possible without CER Groundworks’ support too.

Whole School Initiative.

As part of a Whole School Golf Initiative, the school are taking part in the Golf Foundation’s ‘Unleash your Drive’ programme which is designed to increase participation in golf from an early age, teaching the children the basic skills of putting, chipping etc. The school’s Fundraising Committee, ‘Friends of South View’ donated £12,000 to the school to purchase the course, whilst Burmor paid for the materials, for installation and supplied the workmen, as mentioned above, to draw it all together. Further funding was awarded to the school by ‘The Golf Foundation’, ‘The WPA Foundation’ and Active Lincolnshire through the ‘Opening School Facilities’ grant for golfing equipment.

Head Teacher, Joanne Tomlins said:

“We have so many children who enjoy sport, but who are not keen on physically intensive and hugely competitive sports such as football or netball. We know from statistics that South Holland has a poor record in terms of obesity levels in primary aged children, so we have been looking at a number of ways we can help tackle this issue. In order to get the children to move more, and broaden the types of sports they can access, we decided to pursue a project in Golf, and have enrolled on the Local Authority ‘Defeat the Sweet’ initiative to support us with promoting healthier eating habits. We look forward to reporting on our successes!”

Assistant Business Manager at Burmor, Jack Wycherley said:

“It was fantastic to see the pupil’s participation and engagement from the outset and it was great fun to be able to go and test out the course with some of the children from the school who clearly already get great satisfaction from being out there and active. Joanne’s passion for providing these pupils with something different is something we admire and why we wanted to help.”

If you look closely, you’ll see Darren putting his skills to the test.