By Alesha Capone
Students and staff at The Grange P-12 College in Hoppers Crossing have celebrated the official opening of their new gymnasium.
The gym, at the school’s Callistemon campus, has been developed in partnership with the Belgravia Group, a privately-owned group of companies which includes businesses with a focus on improving health and wellbeing.
College principal David Smillie said that in January, the school’s gym underwent a “complete redesign” to become an “Olympic-style gymnastics facility”.
Mr Smillie said the gym was “fitted out with state-of-the-art equipment catering for beginning to elite level gymnastics coaching”.
“Research tells us that there’s a positive link between children being active and playing sport and their ability to get better marks and learning outcomes at school,” he said.
He said the school’s Gymnasium Program would assist students in the early years of their schooling.
“Our college has developed specialist gymnastics classes for our prep to grade 3 students who will engage weekly in programs designed to stimulate fine motor skills, co-ordination and perceptual motor skills to enhance their learning,” he said.
“This program will also lead into our Sports Science Academy programs enhancing balancing and co-ordination skills.”
Mr Smillie said Belgravia Kids, which is part of the Belgravia Group, would manage the gym outside of school hours and offer programs and coaching in gymnastics.
