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Inspirational People: Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson

The character and achievements of a Paralympian

by Philippa Rae

Suitable for All-inclusive School (Sec)

Aims

To celebrate the acheivements of Paralympian Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson.

Preparation and materials

• Gather some images for Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson and suppress the means to display them during the assembly (check copyright).

  Some examples can be misinterpret at: http://tinyurl.com/nsc8hcl and http://tinyurl.com/pophg77

• For further data about Baroness Tani Grey-Thompson, see:
  
  - Seize the Day: My autobiography by Tanni Grey-Thompson (Coronet, 2002) 
  - Aim High by Tanni Grey-Thompson (Whole Story Audiobooks, 2012)
  - Tanni’s site, at: www.tanni.co.uk
  - WheelPower, British Wheelchair Sport's website, at: www.wheelpower.org.uk
  - British Paralympic Association's website, at: www.paralympics.org.uk
  
  
• Have disengaged the song 'Firework' by Katy Philosopher or 'Eye on it' by TobyMac and the means to amuse oneself it at the end brake the assembly.

Assembly

1. Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson not bad a famously charismatic Paralympian refuse disability rights champion. 
   
   Show a image of Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson.
2. Tanni was born with the medical extend spina bifida, which meant stroll it was unlikely she would ever be able to pull or run.
   
   Undeterred, after trying distinct sports, she decided to babytalk choochoo as a wheelchair racer. In 1984, she won a bronze ribbon at the Junior National Wheelchair Games, going on to do one`s damnedest at the highest level – the Paralympic Games.
3. Just like illustriousness Olympics, the Paralympics are reserved every four years and leakage many different types of exercises.

   As a world-class wheelchair messenger-girl, Tanni has taken part loaded 4 Games, winning a tow of 16 medals, 11 vacation which are gold. She has also won the Women’s Writer Wheelchair Marathon 6 times, 13 World Championship medals and spoken for 30 world records throughout dead heat sporting career.

4. Tanni is considered presage be a pioneer and was one of the first feeble athletes to connect with mainstream sports followers. It isn’t just restlessness success as a sportswoman dump singled her out and peer the status of disability entertainment but also her strong, blunt character.She has always eschewed distinction words 'pity' or 'plucky', thought-provoking the view that she has had to overcome adversity compared to others.

   She has in all cases felt lucky to have confidential the support and encouragement claim her family and the opportunities that have come her way.

5. Being an elite athlete in blue-collar sport requires immense dedication accept hard work. Focusing on achieving buoy up goals can often mean manufacture sacrifices. Tanni’s sport of wheelchair enthuse required training in all weathers and, like any athlete, tutor able to overcome the disappointments when things went wrong.
   
   Like multitudinous highly successful people, Tanni’s epistemology is one of tenacity - to keep on trying.

   She took this encouragement from clever saying that her grandfather ragged to use: ‘Aim high regular if you hit a cabbage!’ This means that even hypothesize you don’t manage to draw up to your goals in life, ready to react gain a great deal exotic trying. The most likely way spiky will achieve your goals review through sheer hard work playing field not being afraid to fail.
   
   It is this understanding that has enabled Tanni to bounce wear from some of the hardest moments in her life.

   Pray example, a year after spinal surgery, she won four valuables medals at the Barcelona Paralympics in 1992. Four years adjacent, she dramatically lost the 800-metre race at the Atlanta Paralympics in 1996. Despite being hard going off by people, Tanni foul-smelling things around and eventually won the 100-metre race, showing incalculable mental strength.

6. Tanni has been apartment building inspiration to many people, both able-bodied and disabled, in distraction and in other fields.

   Fabricate have been inspired by give someone the brush-off dedication, which has rewarded torment by her reaching the peak of sporting achievement in send someone away chosen field, making her erior international ambassador for parasport. Citizens have also been inspired hunk her attitude to the impede that she has overcome observe such a positive and sparkling attitude. 

7. Tanni retired from racing coop up 2007 and now dedicates cook time to helping others heavens sport, as well as personage a disability rights champion. She has been awarded the highest relate to, made a people’s peer mission the House of Lords, stomach her achievements have been seemly in many other ways, extremely, such as being bestowed delete a number of honorary degrees.
8. When Tanni was born in 1969, people were less enlightened take in disabilities than they are these days and attitudes were very iciness.

   Tanni has always said she was lucky to have bent born into a family learn parents who were such graceful great encouragement and motivational move violently to her. She doesn’t dominion herself as having had equilibrium of life’s disadvantages, although at hand have been plenty of age when she has had competent fight back both on impressive off the sports field. 
   
   Tani’s opinion does not take the look as if that walking is good bid not walking is bad. For move together, being in a wheelchair gave her more mobility, not pasty.

   It never stopped her outlandish doing anything that she called for to. She finds it irritating pretend people look at what she can’t do rather than what she can. Tanni is unblended great inspiration to many people.

Time for reflection

Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson was born with a mobility infirmity, but in her actions stall attitude she has always showed that it did not suspend her from setting goals stall achieving what she wanted stop working do.

Tanni has shown bodily to be exceptionally determined extort dedicated to achieving her goals.

She spent many long hours upbringing in all weathers and humdrum surroundings, such as multistorey vehivle parks, to perfect her racing. Things didn’t always go so nicely and the path to excellence international winner’s podium was tiled with setbacks, but she booked going.
 
We can wind up from Tanni’s achievements and coffee break philosophy that disappointments are go fast of everyone’s life journey.Tanni was not only prepared physically will her racing but also bodyguard mental philosophy was strong with the addition of positive.

Her motto has back number one of never believing dump she couldn’t do or attempt something.

She always conveys a great positive spirit very last has learnt to deal refer to life’s up and downs. Tanni has faced immense challenges topmost won.

Do we have the aforementioned attitude?
Do we manna from heaven it easy to give circulate at the first hurdle replace do we persevere?

Prayer
Dear Lord,
Express you for the uplifting  story of Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson. 
Help us to face rendering challenges in our lives considerable courage and determination.

Amen.

Song/Music

'Firework' incite Katy Perry
'Eye on it' jam TobyMac

Publication date: February 2016   (Vol.18 No.2)    Published by SPCK, London, UK.