September Update!

What is School Games?

The School Games aims to provide every child with a positive experience in an environment where the young person’s motivation, competence and confidence are at the centre of the competition.

What is the vision?

The School Games will continue to make a clear and meaningful difference to the lives of even more children and young people.

What is the mission?

Putting physical activity and competitive sport at the heart of schools and providing more young people with the opportunity to compete and achieve their personal best.

The School Games consists of four unique types of competition:

• Intra-School Competition
• Local Inter-School Competition
• School Games County Provision/Offer
• School Games National Finals

An intra-school competition is a sporting activity taking place between pupils who attend the same school. For example, this can be in the form of a class vs. class or house activity. These competitions should culminate in an annual School Games Day, or Sports Day, to celebrate a school's sporting success.

A local inter-school competition is a sporting activity taking place between schools from the same area - either as a one-off fixture or as part of a league. These competitions may act as qualifiers for county finals or can be run as developmental competitions or festival events to meet the needs of a local area.

What did Galley Hill achieve last year?

chool Games Silver Mark Award

We are delighted to announce that we have achieved the School Games Silver Mark Award for the 2023/24 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. This year we have many sporting achievements including having two football teams entering the league as well as entering the netball league. Every year group from Reception to Year 6 all took part in external sports festivals ranging from ‘Glow Dance’ to Rugby. Girls in Year 5/6 also took part in the Girls Biggest Football day where over 600 girls took part.

All children competed in local inter-school competitions this year, we are extremely proud of our pupils for their dedication to all aspects of school sport, including those young volunteers, leaders and officials who made our competitions possible. As part of our application, we were asked to fulfil criteria in the areas of participation, competition, workforce and clubs, and we are pleased that the hard work of everyone at our school has been rewarded this year. A special thanks to: Miss Penning for her enthusiastic leadership of PE  at Galley Hill and for organising so many events for us all to participate in and Miss Barnes for all the voluntary time she gave in the summer term to make tournaments and Sports Day a success. 

We look forward to applying once again in 2025!

Extra Curricular clubs

At Galley Hill we have been aiming to increase the amount of physical activity we complete outside of the school day. In Autumn term we have launched a range of  sport extra curricular activities you can take part in.

Monday AM - Reception/Year 1 Little Kickers

Monday PM - Year 1/2 Tennis and Reception Party Dance

Tuesday PM - Tennis 3-6 

Wednesday PM - Nursery and Reception Little Kickers and Storm Basketball 1-6

Thursday PM  Netball Years 4 -6 

Friday PM Football 5 and 6

Little Kickers 1-2