What a year it was for another Norfolk School Games. Over 18,000 young people took part in level 2 competitions in the year across all 8 school sports partnerships. This year alone saw nearly 3500 children compete in 22 events, 15 of which were level 3 competitions. With such a variety of sports on offer, […]
The following article from the Youth Sport Trust explains how The School Games has engaged over 10 million young people through competitive sport and helped them to achieve their personal best…. It’s been six years since the opening of London 2012 and one of the biggest legacy projects to come out of the UK’s opportunity […]
On the 3rd and 4th May 2018, secondary school pupils from schools across the county took part in our Secondary Alternative Sports Days. The event was held at Kaset and Alive Leisure in Kings Lynn and it was hard to believe that they were in fact the last couple of days of the 2018 Winter […]
Friday 27th April saw our re-scheduled Special School Games take place at Sportspark. The event saw pupils from John Grant, Sidestrand Hall, Clare School, Harford Manor special schools in Norfolk compete in Curling, Duathlon, Archery and Badminton and they all faced each competition with great determination! The activities were delivered brilliantly by local community clubs […]
Wednesday 7th March saw day 2 of the 2018 Norfolk School Games Winter Finals take place at our brand new venue Holkham Hall. Although the event had been postponed, after the snowy conditions last week, the second day of the Games saw 640 young runners take part in the Yr 3-6 cross country finals. Each of the […]
The event will be taking place at Holkham Hall this Wednesday 7th March. Cars are permitted to enter via the north gates. For Sat Navs, please use the postcode NR23 1RH. For cars bringing participants, a parking pass will need to be shown to car parking staff who will direct drivers to the correct car park. These can be […]
Due to weather conditions forecast this week we have taken the decision to postpone the following Norfolk School Games Finals: Cross Country- Forecasts are suggesting that Holkham could feel as cold as -10 degrees and with there being no indoor space for competitors and predicted travel disruption we felt that in the interest of ensuring a […]
It was a great opening day of the Norfolk Winter School games 2018 as two teams from Dereham Neatherd and one team from City Academy Norwich competed in their first ever Panathlon competition. For many students involved this was their first experience of participating in a Panathlon and representing their school in organised sport. Seven […]
The opening day of the Norfolk Winter School Games 2018 brought 96 Year 1 & 2 boys and girls from across the County, to the fantastic Gymnastic Centre at the UEA Sportspark, to compete in our Key Stage 1 Keysteps Gymnastics Final. The children qualified from their Level 2 competitions to represent their respective School […]
With only 1 week to go until the Norfolk School Games Finals, we are gearing up for one of our most exciting week of events this year.
The Norfolk School Games is back for another year! It is the largest school sport event to be held in Norfolk and your school has now been offered the chance to take part this year. The Games are part of the national School Games initiative which aims to inspire more young people to take part […]
Well done to the first steps yr 3 & 4 netballers from Denver Primary, Upwell Primary and Southery Academy schools who took part in a very successful cluster festival in the glorious sunshine. The teams were made up of players from each school and they played round robin matches with no scores being recorded. The standard of play improved […]
Monday afternoon saw Norwich School Sport Partnership launch a brand new festival designed to help inspire more teenage girls to be physically active as part of the Norfolk School Games. The festival targeted girls in Years 9-11 who enjoyed taking part in PE lessons but did not take part in additional sport or physical activity outside of lessons either […]
Girls Football qualifying events have gone down brilliantly across all Norfolk Schools Sports Partnerships. Norwich, West Norwich & Dereham, Norwich East, North, South, East and West SSP’s have already held their year 3 & 4 competitions with over 700 girls taking part so far. Breckland’s comp is after the Easter hols. The top 4 teams from east […]
Friday 10th February saw day 2 of the 2017 Norfolk School Games Winter Finals take place at Gresham’s School in Holt. The second day of the Games saw over 600 young runners take part in the Yr 3-6 cross country finals. Each of the participants had qualified to represent their local School Sports Partnership (SSP) […]
Thursday Norwich SSP held a swimming gala for pupils in Year 3-4 at the Sportspark. The aim of the gala was to provide the next step on from school swimming lessons and to provide pupils a pathway into the sport of swimming. Approximately 80 Yr 3-4 pupils from 6 different schools took part in the gala. Many […]
17 teams from 16 schools travelled to West Norfolk Rugby Club on a very cold January day to compete in the Level 2 of the School Games. Both large and small school competitions were held alongside each other and great tag rugby was witnessed throughout the morning by a good crowd of teachers and parents. […]
It was a day of fast-paced fun & plenty of action as 16 teams competed in the West Norwich & Dereham SSP School Games Sportshall Athletics Competition at the UEA Sportspark. Over 300 children took part in the days activities, as 12 Schools battled it out in the Big Schools competition and 4 Schools took part in […]
Last Friday saw 4 of our North Norfolk Secondary schools attend a fantastic ‘This Girl Can’ event organised by Chloe Pedlow, School Games Organiser as part of our new approach to the level 2 school games for key stage 3 pupils. The event aimed to help girls find new activities they would like to try […]
