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;
- 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. - 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) - 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. - 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. - 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.