Wrexham leisure centre helping to provide education beyond the classroom

A Wrexham leisure centre is helping to provide education beyond the classroom.

Students from recently visited Waterworld Leisure & Activity Centre for a morning of exploring fitness, fun and employment opportunities.

Organised by Careers Wales, a group of students were given a behind the scenes tour of the leisure centre – helping to give them the confidence to visit the centre in their own leisure time to experience the wealth of fitness and wellness activities available.

On top of this they were able to discuss the wide range of job opportunities in leisure with colleagues from the centre who were on hand to answer any questions.

Waterworld in Wrexham is operated in partnership with Wrexham Borough Council by Freedom Leisure who are a not-for-profit leisure trust operating nine leisure centres across Wrexham including Gwyn Evans, Chirk and Queensway Stadium.

St Christopher’s School provides education for pupils aged 6-19 who have a range of complex learning and development needs – including profound and complex needs, autism, severe learning difficulties and moderate learning difficulties.

Lesley Lloyd from Careers Wales said: “Thank you to Freedom Leisure for giving pupils from St Christopher’s School the opportunity of the careers talk and behind the scenes tour of Waterworld.

“Young people really benefit from visits such as this, in terms of developing their confidence, their communication skills and their awareness of the world of work.”

Richard Milne, Freedom Leisure’s Area Manager for Wrexham said” “It was fantastic to welcome students from St Christopher’s to Waterworld.

“It was great to be able to show them around the iconic building in Wrexham and answer their questions.

“We look forward to welcoming them back very soon.”