LOWER Darwen are on their way to the Lancashire Summer Games after showing off their wide range of athletic abilities.

The school will represent Blackburn and Darwen in the Quad Kids athletics in the finals to be held at Stanley Park in Blackpool next Tuesday.

QuadKids is an exciting athletics initiative which gives more children the opportunity to participate in and enjoy the benefits of athletics.

It includes the core athletics’ disciplines of running, throwing and jumping.

QuadKids is a team based quadrathlon competition where each athlete does a sprint, a middle distance run, a long jump and a throw. A total of seven teams of five boys and five girls competed in 60m sprint, 400M run, standing long jump, and vortex throw.

Points were accumilated over the day and in the end only 20 points separted the top three teams – and only two between winners Lower Darwen and runners-up Westholme A.

Longshaw were third with 1471 points, Westholme A runners up with 1489 points with Lower Darwen crowned 2013 Quad Kids champions with a impressive haul of 1491 points.

Andrew Mercer, School Games Organiser said: “I would like to say a huge thank you to the young leaders from St Bede’s who did an amazing job, timing, measuring, recording results, encouraging and entertaining the competitors between events.”