Focus on your School Games Organisers


Holt Primary School achieve Gold Kite Mark


Schools from across Wiltshire and Swindon have been able to access the School Games Kite Mark for the last two academic years. We are pleased to announce that Holt Primary School achieved the Bronze level award last year, and set their sight on Silver this year by making some alterations to their provision.


Jo Hodge, the PE subject lead from Holt Primary School focused on some key areas such as introducing a cultural element to their School Games day in the summer, Keeping a close eye on the number and variety of students accessing inter school opportunities and ensuring the pupils had a role to play in leading inter school competitions. Holt were chosen for an external verification of the award and were visited by researchers from Sheffield Hallam, not only have they been awarded Silver but the school were recommended to be upgraded to Gold. Congratulations to the School and their efforts. The task now is to sustain this kite mark for the next academic year. Holt school pupils were also involved in the Opening Ceremony of the Wiltshire School Games at Marlborough with a dance performance which entertained the crowd.


Rugby 7’s Day at Salisbury Rugby Club


On the 23rd October Wellington Academy, St Johns and Avon Valley College travelled to Salisbury Rugby Club for the Year 7 Rugby day. The morning consisted of five coaching stations - scrums, tackling, rucks and mauls, handling and SAQ these were deliver by Ian and Alistair from Salisbury RFC, Geraint from Up and Under coaching and the teachers.


6 Wiltshire and Swindon Relay


School Games level 2 Primary Football Festival


The 14th October saw the School Games level 2 primary Football Festival for girls and mixed teams. We had 12 schools taking part with 6 teams in the girls and 15 teams in the mixed. The year 12 and 13 PE students refereed and ran the line on the 5 pitches. They did a supberb job keeping the games under control and making sure the teams were ready to play. Congratulations to Amesbury Primary who won the girls competition, Clarendon Juniors who won the mixed and Shrewton who


Emily Reynolds


West Wiltshire SGO I am a School Games Organiser based in Kingdown School, West Wiltshire. I aim to support schools accessing a range of competitive opportunities throughout the academic year, developing a network of Change4Life clubs and providing a local platform for schools to contact regarding PE and Sport issues.


In addition to the three days School Games Organiser role, I support the Warminster Primary schools with further Festivals and leadership opportunities and West Wiltshire schools with CPD opportunities.


Collette Harries


got through to the Semi Finals but go through to the level 3 School Games Football Festival as a small school. Good luck to all three in the finals.


Avon Valley SGO I am a School Games Organiser 2 days a week and 3 days a week I teach PE at Avon Valley College. As an SGO I origanise the level 2 School Games Festivals for the Avon Valley, Stonehenge, Pewsey, Wellington and St Johns clusters. My PE role also consists of working with the Avon Valley cluster providing more Sports Festivals for other year groups, CPD and new initiatives.


The coaches then worked with a School to help them understand game play. The idea was to bridge the gap between Tag Rugby and full contact. To prove how much the students had learnt in the afternoon the teams played in a round robin. The students all showed great skills and put in many hard tackles.


The final results were:


1st St Johns B 25 points 2nd St Johns A 20 points 3rd Wellington A 16 points 4th Wellington B 9 points 5th Avon Valley College 8 points 6th Avon valley College 0 points


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