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Enriching Competitions Which Inspire Children To Engage In Sport Away From School

As part of achieving the school games mark, primary schools must engage their pupils in a set amount of competitions each year. Competitions form an integral part of an excellent PE curriculum, ensuring pupils have opportunities to put what they’ve learnt in lessons into practice whilst also developing life long skills such as team work and resilience. Competitions against local schools can often be a catalyst for your children to go on and join a local club or to take their passion for sport further.

Total Sports has been running exciting and all encompassing competitions now for 17 years across York and the wider Yorkshire region. Our competitions calendars are accessible for pupils of all sporting backgrounds, we understand not all children are mad about football or dodgeball! Our inter and intra-school competitions are suited for children from reception to year 6 and have fun and inclusion at heart.

Learn more about our competitions by reading below!

School Competitions Which Inspire

Exciting and diverse competitions play a crucial role in your children’s PE development journey. Your pupils should be engaged in healthy competitive sport from an early age with skill and personal development being at the core. Our competition calendar ensures active and inactive pupils have opportunities to engage in PE in a range of sports whether is is football, dodgeball, netball, hockey, parachute, athletics or capture the flag!

Our competitions are inter and intra, meaning your children get to enjoy competitive sport against one another at their school and also at other schools. Across the year, all pupils at our schools have the opportunities to engage in competitive action at least once every half term. These competitions are optional for pupils and schools and are designed around what our schools ask for.

Total Sports Primary School PE competitions are structured in a manner which ensures your children have a build of lessons before, meaning they are able to put their learning to the test and see their development in game situations. Our competitions also offer pupils opportunities to engage in extra curricular clubs away from schools, continuing to promote a love for sport.

Below is an example of how our competitions were structured last year, our calendar for this year is very similar with some minor differences and is available upon request!

Below is a detailed overview of how our competitions are structured and which sports schools had the opportunities to be involved with;

Autumn Half Term 1

  • Years 3/4 – Football Intra Schools Competition
  • Years 5/6 – Dodgeball Intra Schools Competition
  • Year 1/2 – Parachute Inter Schools Competition

Autumn Half Term 2

  • Years 3/4 – Dodgeball Intra Schools Competition
  • Years 1/2 – Dodgeball Inter Schools Competition
  • Year 5/6 – Capture the flag intra schools competition

Spring Half Term 1

  • Years 3/4 – Bench ball intra schools competition
  • Years 5/6 – Bench ball intra schools competition
  • Year 1/2 – Multi sport inter school competition

Spring Half Term 2

  • Years 3/4 – Capture the flag intra schools competition
  • Years 1/2 – Athletics Intra school competition
  • Year 5/6 – High Five Netball Inter schools competition

Summer Half Term 1

  • Years 3/4 – Sports hall athletics Intra Schools Competition
  • Years 1/2 – Bean bag rounders inter school competition
  • Year 5/6 – Sports hall athletics intra school competitions

Summer Half Term 2

  • Years 3/4 – Total Sports Olympics Intra School Competition
  • Years 1/2 – Total Sports Olympics Intra School Competition
  • Year 5/6 – Total Sports Olympics Intra School Competition

How Can My School Get Involved?

We would love to support your setting with engaging your pupils in healthy competitive sport. To submit an enquiry, simply complete the contact form, once completed a member of the head office team will be in touch to organise an initial meeting at your school. We will then discuss how we can support your school and requirements!







    School Competitions Case Study

    Naburn Primary School, York

    Click on the image link below to find out more on how we support Naburn CE Primary School with school sports competitions;