Last Leg's Alex Brooker backs campaign to bring inclusive physical activity to UK schools

With under 100 days to go until the Paralympics kick off in Paris, broadcaster Alex Brooker has backed a campaign to bring inclusive sports to primary schools across the UK. Super Movers for Every Body, a new partnership between BBC Education, the Premier League and ParalympicsGB, aims to harness the buzz of an exciting summer of sport in an Olympic and Paralympic year to get more children into accessible and inclusive sports.

Currently 1.5 million children in England have special educational needs or are disabled, but only one in four disabled children take part in physical activity at school. Super Movers for Every Body is designed to tackle this issue.

Life-long Arsenal supporter Alex attended Ravensbury Community Primary School in the outskirts of Manchester City stadium along with CBeebies and CBBC presenter Evie Pickerill to launch the new inclusive sport initiative and get a taster of blind football, boccia (pronounced 'bot-cha') and Para athletics (guided running, javelin and shot put).

Ravensbury Community School pupils enjoyed a jam-packed day that kicked off with a Q&A in which the children asked Alex and Evie some tricky questions about inclusion and allyship, followed by an inclusive warm-up routine flanked by Manchester City mascots, Moonbeam and Moonchester! The sun was shining on the city that day as the children headed outside to try out the newly-introduced sports, led by experienced City in the Community coaches.

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