School Games: Inspiring young people

• Level 1 - sporting competition for all students in school through intra-school competition
• Level 2 - individuals and teams are selected to represent their schools in local inter-school competitions
• Level 3 – the county/area will stage multi-sport School Games festivals as a culmination of year-round school sport competition
• Level 4 – the Sainsbury's School Games finals: a national multi-sport event where the most talented young people in the UK will be selected to compete in our sporting venues (including the Olympic Park in 2012).

Athletics in the School Games

If you are involved in the delivery of School Games whether at Levels 1, 2 or 3 we have resources which can help you. Please click on the relevant items below to download the England Athletics resource:

• Level 1 - Primary Athletics - Challenge Cards
• Level 1 - Primary Athletics - Competition Cards
• Level 1 - Secondary Athletics - Resources
• Level 2 & 3  - Primary and Secondary Athletics Resources
   

The Athletics offering is based upon the successful Super8 format.

Inclusive format for disabled athletes

England Athletics and its partners QuadKids have produced guidance and points scoring spreadsheets for inclusive Super8 competitions. This development is part of England Athletics' commitment to provide better competition opportunities for disabled athletes and is part of our School Games offer for all young people.

This guidance has been developed to allow disabled athletes to compete in meaningful and fair competition and contribute performance points to an overall team score alongside their non-disabled peers. The information aims to support competition organisers to proactively encourage disabled athletes to compete and offers advice on how this can be done for different numbers of athletes with different impairments. The new format allows for flexible delivery to suit local needs.

Four athlete groupings have been developed to allow for simple event organisation and so that non-classified athletes can compete. The points scoring system has initially been developed for four events (ambulant 100m, wheelchair 200m, ambulant shot, and seated shot) and nine other events are soon to follow.

Click here to download the Inclusive Super8 Guidance Manual. For a free copy of the points score system please register here.  The points scoring system is an ongoing project that will be further developed over time to include all events, score by age, support talent identification and ultimately allow relative performance points to be allocated to athletes whether disabled or not.  We ask competition providers to register to be sent the scoring spreadsheet so that we can send further updates as and when they are completed.  Similar work is underway to develop our other short-form competition formats.

• Click here for supporting information on selecting disabled athletes for School Games
• Click here for direct info on the inclusive format of Super8
• For more information please contact Liz Purbrick - National Disability Manager (Community Participation) 
  Email: lpurbrick@englandathletics.org   Tel: 07850 514936

You can find out more about the Schools Super8 format on our Schools Super8 page

More about the School Games

You can find out more at the School Games website at www.yourschoolgames.com

Information includes:

• About the Games
  • What are the School Games
  • Levels of competition explained
  • Kitemark
  • Inclusive competition

• Information for
  • Organisers
  • Schools
  • Parents
  • Students

• Sports
  • Level 1 Primary
  • Level 1 Secondary
  • Level 2/3

Please see a film about the School Games below.