{"id":8377,"date":"2016-01-26T18:03:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T18:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/?p=8377"},"modified":"2016-01-26T18:03:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T18:03:20","slug":"assistant-takes-ten-y-fan-challenge-raise-money-cardiff-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2016\/01\/26\/assistant-takes-ten-y-fan-challenge-raise-money-cardiff-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Assistant takes on &#039;Ten Y Fan&#039; challenge to raise money for Cardiff school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_8382\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8382\" style=\"width: 328px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Luke-Jenkins.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-8382\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Luke-Jenkins.jpg\" alt=\"Luke Jenkins at the summit of Pen Y Fan mountain\" width=\"328\" height=\"437\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8382\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Luke-Jenkins.jpg\" alt=\"Luke Jenkins at the summit of Pen Y Fan mountain\" width=\"328\" height=\"437\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> <strong>Luke Jenkins at the summit of Pen Y Fan<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nA CARDIFF teaching assistant plans to climb\u00a0Pen Y Fan mountain 10 times in 24 hours to raise money for sport provision in his primary school.<br \/>\nLuke Jenkins, 25, aims to raise at least \u00a3500 to offer a wider range of sports to the 342 pupils at Llanedeyrn Primary School.<br \/>\nMr Jenkins said: \u201cI\u2019m hoping to get as many people there as possible at the start and at the end.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019ve already got the head teacher to agree to do some of it with me, as well as a handful of teachers and other members of staff.\u201d<br \/>\nThe hikes will start at about 1pm on Saturday, May 7. Mr Jenkins thinks the challenge will take about 20 hours so he will be walking overnight. He\u00a0hopes to be cheered on by supporters as he finishes his last trek on Sunday morning.<br \/>\nPen Y Fan is in the Brecon Beacons mountain range and at 886 metres, is south Wales\u2019s highest mountain.<br \/>\nMr Jenkins beieves sport is a key aspect of education. He wants teach younger children the values and fundamental skills of\u00a0sport.<br \/>\nWith the money raised, he wants\u00a0to introduce a wider range of sports to the school. Sports suggested include volleyball, badminton and table tennis.<br \/>\nMr Jenkins chairs Activ8, the school&#8217;s own sports council, which seeks improve sporting opportunities and provision.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8398\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8398\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/pen-y-fan4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8398\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/pen-y-fan4.jpg\" alt=\"The mountain is situated in the Breacon Beacons\" width=\"740\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8398\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8398\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/pen-y-fan4.jpg\" alt=\"The mountain is situated in the Breacon Beacons\" width=\"740\" height=\"300\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> <strong>Pen Y Fan\u00a0in the Brecon Beacons<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Rhondda resident has worked for three years at the school&#8217;s Special Resource Base, which caters for pupils with learning disabilities.<br \/>\nIn his time there, staff have completed the Three Peaks Challenge and the Dell Corporate Challenge, and climbed\u00a0Pen Y Fan with students and parents as part of a school trip.<br \/>\nMr Jenkins estimates that each climb will take two hours. He is already in training for the 10km St David\u2019s Day Run on February 28. He is running five times a week to build fitness, but will start weights training before the Ten Y Fan challenge to improve strength and endurance.<br \/>\nTo donate to the cause or\u00a0find out more click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ten-y-fan-llanedeyrnprimary.weebly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A CARDIFF teaching assistant plans to climb\u00a0Pen Y Fan mountain 10 times in 24 hours to raise money for sport provision in his primary school. Luke Jenkins, 25, aims to raise at least \u00a3500 to offer a wider range of sports to the 342 pupils at Llanedeyrn Primary School. Mr Jenkins said: \u201cI\u2019m hoping to get as many people there as possible at the start and at the end. \u201cI\u2019ve already got the head teacher to agree to do some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1006,327,4],"tags":[630,1291,20,3346,183,74,339],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-maindy","category-roath-park-cyncoed","category-sport","tag-brecon-beacons","tag-cardiff-2","tag-llanedeyrn","tag-pen-y-fan","tag-school","tag-sport-2","tag-wales"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Assistant takes on &#039;Ten Y Fan&#039; challenge to raise money for Cardiff school - The Cardiffian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2016\/01\/26\/assistant-takes-ten-y-fan-challenge-raise-money-cardiff-school\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Assistant takes on &#039;Ten Y Fan&#039; challenge to raise money for Cardiff school - The Cardiffian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A CARDIFF teaching assistant plans to climb\u00a0Pen Y Fan mountain 10 times in 24 hours to raise money for sport provision in his primary school. 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