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Gaynes Awarded Gold in School Games Mark Award

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May 27th 2022

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We are delighted to announce that Gaynes has 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.  

It celebrates keeping young people active, and we are delighted to have been recognised for our success. 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.

 

School Games Outcomes Criteria

1.      Maintaining and growing your school’s engagement in the School Games and your delivery of 60 active minutes for every child.

2.      Creating positive experiences to ensure physical activity and competition provision is designed to reflect the motivation, competence and confidence of your young people and has a clear intent.

3.      A clear focus on particular transition points (Yr.3 and Yr.7/8 as well as those in 3 tier systems) and how secondary schools are engaging in the School Games

4.      Creating positive experiences that support the character development of young people.

5.      Advocated to key stakeholders how the School Games makes a meaningful difference to the lives of children and young people, including engaging and educating their parents.​

 

The school would like to thank Mr Clark, Mrs Culling and Mr Griffen and other teacher who volunteer to support the PE team for their hard work in achieving this award.