The School Games - Competition

The School Games is the Government’s new structure for competitive school sport and a key strategy for creating a meaningful sporting legacy from the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. It will involve all young people in Years 3 to 13, with a range of opportunities to ensure the inclusion of young people with all abilities and backgrounds through:

• Intra-School Competition: within a school environment, house teams or form groups competing in varied and regular competition throughout the year.
• Inter-School Competition: regular leagues taking place between schools at a local level throughout the year, with the best school teams qualifying to take part at the county level School Games Festival. This inter-school competition will be driven by the new School Games Organisers.
• National Event: a major multi-sport event for the most talented young people of school age. The event will provide a showcase for our best sporting talent. In 2012, this will include the use of some venues in the Olympic Park

In Learning South Leicestershire, a calendar of Level 2 School Games competitions has been developed and schools are able to enter events throughout the year.  Winners of the Level 2 events in both Blaby and Harborough and Oadby and Wigston will qualify to represent their area at Level 3 of the School Games.  Click here to view the Learning South Leicestershire Calendar.

The sports and age groups we will be delivering at Level 2 are as follows:

Our aim is to make access to the School Games for children with disabilities as inclusive as possible.  The following sports will be offered to children with special education needs and disabilities:

Level 3 of the School Games in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland will take place as both ‘Super Series’ events taking place throughout the year and a ‘Multi Sports Final’ on July 10^th 2012 at Leicestershire Grammar School.  The breakdown of these activities is as follows:

2012 School Games Curriculum Competitions

In support of the whole school engagement with the School Games, a number of competitions are being run with a particular spotlight on the programmes being run at Levels 1-3. These competitions, designed to complement learning delivered through the school curriculum, are centred on the sporting spirit values of passion, belief, respect, honesty and teamwork. Entries to the competitions will be inspired by the activity at intra and inter sport level.

The competitions include an exciting range of cross curricular opportunities including Young reporter, photographer, statistician, announcer, musician and artist.  To find out more about the competitions go to the School Games Curriculum Competitions Channel www.radiowaves.co.uk/sg2012

Successful submissions will receive recognition at a regional and national level, with the overall winners contributing to the Level 4 School Games being held at the Olympic Park in London in May 2012.

The deadline for competition entries is early 2012. To enter, schools must have registered on the School Games website, www.yourschoolgames.com.  For more informtaion contact : matt.pauling@youthsporttrust.

In Leicestershire, some locally developed competitions and activities with a cultural focus will be launched in the New Year, linking to the Level 3 School Games.  More information will be sent out to schools about these opportunities as we get it.