Deepcar strikes GOLD again

Deepcar St Johns Junior School has retained its School Games Mark Gold status.

The Mark recognised the schools commitment to and development of competition, school sport, physical education and physical activity. Miss Jones, Headteacher, commented “The staff at Deepcar have worked extremely hard to retain this award. We have continued to provide high quality physical activity opportunities.”

As part of the “Gold” criteria schools are expected to provide all pupils with two hours of timetabled PE per week, engage 50%+ of pupils in extracurricular physical activity every week, 15% of the pupils leading and officiating in physical activities as well as several other aspects.

Miss Jones added “It is a really good toolkit to ensure that we are providing the very best opportunities for our pupils. We have surpassed a lot of the gold criteria. Over 60% of our pupils have attended extracurricular physical activities and approximately 30% of our pupils are sports leaders”.

Mr Priest commented “We have had yet another really successful year with sport. We have entered lots of competitions and we have been successful in lots of these tournaments. There have been many highlights but if I had to pick one it would be the Year 4 pupils winning the Hotshots City Finals and being crowned Sheffield City Champions”. This award is added to Deepcar’s growing list of awards with the school previously winning the ‘Active Girls Award’ and the “Upskilling Staff Award” categories at the Sheffield School Active Awards Evening.