Students from a Bushey school have won five gold medals at a national disability sporting event.

Seventeen pupils from Bushey Meads School travelled to Stoke Mandeville Stadium in Aylesbury to take part in the National Junior Games.

The students were among 115 people from 11 schools across the country taking part in the four day event, which was organised by WheelPower – a charity for wheelchair sport.

Students from the Bushey school took part and won medals in field and track athletics, archery, table cricket and boccia.

One pupil, Lee Keogh, competed in the games for the fourth year running and took part in football, athletics and handcycling.

The 14-year-old, who is inspired by six time Paralympic gold medallist David Weir, said: “It gets better every time I come, because there’s more sports, more variety, not just the same things each year.

“It really shows potential of what disabled people can do and shows.”

As well as the competition element, the Junior Games provide an environment for young people to discover and try new disability sports.

Specialist education needs team leader Nicky Day at Bushey Meads School said: “Lee loves to have a go at everything, he’s really determined and very enthusiastic.

“He joined us from a school where he was the only student who had an impairment and now he thrives in our mainstream school with a very large unit to accommodate physically impaired students.

“The Junior Games is the highlight of their year, from the time we leave at the end of one year until we come back they don’t stop talking about it. They’ve all got opportunities here to try out sports they would never have the opportunity to try out elsewhere.”