The school’s new sports facility, which represents an investment of £160,000, was opened on Wednesday, November 6 by Carlisle United first-team players Terell Thomas and Ben Williams and a number of the school’s sports teams.
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(Image: Caldew School) The facility, which includes a TigerTurf Championship 50mm turf marking out a full-size football pitch and three five-a-side pitches, has been installed to ‘shape further sporting successes within the school and the school community as well as providing excellent teaching and learning facilities.’
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(Image: Caldew School) The school also plans to mark out a hockey pitch in the near future.
The project was completed by Sportex after the firm was chosen as the contractor by the school, who also recycled Caldew School’s old artificial turf.
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(Image: Caldew School) After the completion and official opening of the new all-weather sports facility, Caldew School’s headteacher Vicki Jackson was on hand to express her delight.
She said: “We are extremely happy to invest in the new all-weather facility which has been fully self-financed by the school and will receive many years of use by our students both in school time and extra-curricular activities.
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(Image: Caldew School) “We are proud to offer this facility to our community users and look forward to celebrating all our sporting successes.”
