This year, as part of our Health, Fitness and Well-Being fortnight, we are challenging the whole school to work together to try and virtually walk/run from John O’Groats to Land’s end. We have chosen to do this sponsored event for the JDRF charity to raise awareness of Type 1 diabetes. We have a wonderful young man called Finn in Year 6 who deals with Type 1 diabetes on a daily basis. 

Here at Wrenthorpe Academy we think he is a rather brave and inspirational pupil who never moans and just faces any new challenge with real determination and always with a big smile. Read the following passage to get a little insight as what he has to deal with each day:

"Hi, I’m Finn. I’m 11 years old and I have type 1 diabetes. I was diagnosed when I was 3 years old. Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are very different. I didn’t get it from eating too much sugar - this is a myth! It’s not fun being Type 1. It can hurt, it never goes away and sometimes if I’m poorly I have to go into hospital. Everything and anything can affect my blood sugars like food, illness, PE, nerves, even Leeds United! Instead of injections (hate them!) I am hooked up to a pump which I can’t take off, ever. This gives me my insulin during the day and whenever I eat anything. Without insulin I become very poorly very quickly. Being diabetic means that I have hypo’s too. This is where my blood sugar goes low. When this happens, I feel poorly and I need to have sugar immediately. BUT I don’t let being type 1 stop me from doing anything my friends can do, it doesn’t control me – I control it!"

By supporting this charity you are funding research that will one day cure, treat and prevent type 1 diabetes and its complications that come with it.

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