Ghyll Royd Awarded Silver Activemark Award

The School Sports Partnership initiative is one element of the Government’s Physical Education, Sport and Club Links Strategy (PESSCL).

School Sports Partnership (SSP’s) are families of secondary and primary schools that work together to enhance the quality of sporting opportunities, through the curriculum, Out of School Hours Learning, inter-school competitors and school to club links.

Within a family of schools there is a partnership manager who is based in a sports college, and whose role is to develop strategic links with key partners in sport and the wider community. Sports co-ordinators based in secondary schools who concentrate on improving school sport opportunities including out of hours learning, intra and and inter-school competition and club links across a family of schools and primary and special link teachers, whose aim is to improve the quality and quantity of PE and sport in their own schools.

Ghyll Royd School is part of the Oakbank SSC Partnership which consists of six secondary schools, 40 primary school and two special schools and the Primary Lead Teacher works closely with our family primary schools to introduce a programme of events, fixtures and competitions that enables all children to have the opportunity to participate in a variety of sports.

Ghyll Royd has thoroughly enjoyed being part of the School Sports Partnership and the additional opportunities it has provided. The children have taken part in a variety of activities and events: its most notable achievement has been representing the Keighley area schools in the Bradford School Kwik Cricket Tournament.

As part of the SSP Ghyll Royd has been awarded its Silver Activemark Award in recognition of the amount of time the children participate in sporting activities.