We are delighted to announce that we, Beecroft Primary, have achieved the School Games GOLD Mark Award for the 2021/22 academic year.
The School Games Mark is a Government-led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward and recognise school’s engagement (provision and uptake) in the School Games against a national benchmark and to celebrate keeping young people active, and we are delighted to have been recognised for our success.
Our physical activity and school sport achievements this year include:
– Becoming a Girls Football School, now with over 40 KS2 girls having taken part in competitive matches
– Half termly inter school football competition for our U10 and U11 football teams
– Half termly playground challenges to increase physical activity
– Free extra-curricular clubs after-school and dinner time for all KS2 pupils
– Young leaders trained in both KS1 and KS2 leading playground games.
– Half termly Wellbeing Days with a wider range of physical activity
– Year 6 Catch -up swimming programme – Fridays
– Brownlee Triathlon participation
– Year 3 – Fun Run
– Year 1/2 – Multi – Sports Festival
We are extremely proud of our pupils for their dedication to all aspects of physical activity and school sport, including those young volunteers, leaders and officials who made our events possible. We are committed to using the School Games to try and engage those young people who haven’t previously been active or represented our school and to try and ensure that all our students have a positive experience and want to try out new activities beyond school too in our community. We believe in the power of physical activity and school sport as a school and give opportunities to those young people that need it most either as a participant, leader, official or volunteer.
As part of our application, we were asked to fulfil criteria in the areas linked to the five School Games outcomes and we are pleased that the hard work of everyone at our school has been rewarded this year.
A special thank you to all of our young leaders who have shown great commitment and all of our pupils and parents who have taken part or supported events.