We are delighted to announce that we have achieved the School Games Silver Mark Award for the 2024/25 academic year. The School Games Mark is a Government-led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community, and we are delighted to have been recognised for our success.

A special thanks to Miss Boswell, Mr Elphick and the Active Education Sussex team. We look forward to applying once again in 2026!

Members of Year 5/6 represented Chiddingly in a football tournament on Tuesday. We played 4 games in the group stages and drew 2, lost 1 and won 1. We were then in the semi final for the Vase but were sadly knocked out in penalties. Despite the rain we played excellently, the players showed some wonderful teamwork skills and all worked very hard. Well done team Chiddingly!

A big thank you to Miss B for leading our team so well and the AES coaches for arranging the event. We look forward to hosting this fun tournament again next week for some Year 3/4 children!

A huge congratulations to the girls and boys who were part of the teams representing Chiddingly at Bede’s football tournaments! They should be very proud of themselves for showing team spirit and determination. Thank you to Active Education Sussex for arranging. They looked so professional in the football kits!

Well done to all who took part in the Summer Fun Run this week. It was great to see all dressed in the bright and colourful Hawaiian accessories! The children have raised an amazing £330 during this Fun Run! Amazing! Thank you to Active Education Sussex for organising.

Thank you to Active Education Sussex and all staff for a brilliant Sports Day last week. The weather was great, the children did brilliantly and the families supported the children fantastically.

The School Games Mark Gold award is awarded to those schools that have challenged themselves and demonstrated their progress over time against a national benchmark.

The Gold Award is given to schools who have evidenced exceptional work in the following areas;

1. Maintaining and growing your school’s engagement in the School Games and your delivery of 60 active minutes for every child.
   Prioritised the delivery of 60 active minutes for every child to support improvements in their physical literacy, social, emotional and physical wellbeing.
2. Creating positive experiences by ensuring physical activity and competition provision is designed to reflect the motivation, competence and confidence of your young people and has a clear intent.
   Demonstrated how they are targeting young people locally who need the intervention most based on school intelligence and data to improve their physical literacy, social, emotional, and physical wellbeing (e.g. low socio-economic backgrounds, minority ethnic groups, SEND, girls)
3. A clear focus on transition points (e.g. Yr.3 and Yr.6/7 as well as those in 3 tier systems) and how secondary schools are engaging in the School Games.
   Prioritised the engagement and delivery in secondary schools in the Schools Games but we also want to recognise the impact in early KS2 and other transition points.
4. Creating positive experiences that support the character development of targeted young people.
   Opportunities across the full breadth of the School Games which incorporates the delivery of high quality, inclusive leadership and volunteering.
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 parents.
   Participation in physical activity and competition will impact on young people’s physical, emotional, and social wellbeing and influence the likelihood of continued engagement both at school and in the community, creating habits for life.