Students and staff at MidKent College held their first annual sports day at Medway Park athletics track in Gillingham.
The busy sporting event, which formed part of a special week of health and wellbeing at the college, featured a wide range of old fashioned sports day challenges, including a four by 100 metre relay, a three-legged race and a frenzied tug of war.
More than half of the college’s Medway faculties opted to take part in the voluntary event, with teams made up of students and staff from health and childcare, public services, hair and beauty, construction, sport, business and A-levels.
Programme area leader for sports courses at the college’s Medway Campus, Graham Heath, said: “Today has been an overwhelming success thanks to all the students and staff who helped organise it and make it so enjoyable. The whole purpose of the event has been to unite a wide range of departments and get our students and staff joining together to have some fun.
“This is the first sports day the college has held, but thanks to the popularity of this event, and the Sport Relief mile that more than 1,000 of our staff and students took part in earlier this year, we’ve decided to make it an annual occurrence.”
The college’s sports day was one of a number of activities undertaken during a week dedicated to health and wellbeing and focused on spiritual, emotional and mental health, fitness and nutrition, tobacco, alcohol and drugs awareness, and relationships and sexual health advice.
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