Congratulations go out to all of the West Norfolk Secondary and Primary schools who got involved with the Norfolk School Games Virtual competitions that ran throughout the Autumn term.

The virtual competition framework was designed to replace any face-to-face Sports competitions that should have run between school’s last term.

The target sports for Secondary schools were Cross Country, Sportshall Athletics and Dance while for Primaries it was Cross Country, Sportshall Athletics, Trigolf and Gymnastics.

All had challenge activities where schools collated results and uploaded to the Norfolk School Games website.

The most impressive feedback has been that all students within schools had the opportunity to represent their school as results were based on an average class score.

Across the term 6186 students from West Norfolk took part.

The percentage of entries across the County for each activity from West Norfolk schools were:

Primary Sportshall Athletics – 38%

Secondary Sportshall Athletics – 36%

Primary Cross Country – 36%

Secondary Cross Country – 37%

Primary Trigolf – 32%

Primary Gymnastics – 69%

This represents an outstanding engagement from our schools when considering that there are seven other SSP’s across Norfolk.

Schools who have taken part in the Virtual competitions so far have been:

Smithdon HS, Tilney All saints, Narborough, Castle Acre, Heacham Junior, Clenchwarton, Hilgay Riverside, Denver, Dersingham, Runcton Holme, Marshland St James, St Marthas, Sandringham & West Newton, Brancaster, Wormegay, Ten Mile Bank Riverside, Anthony Curton, South Wootton Junior, South Wootton Infant, Docking, Holly Meadows, Eastgate, St Mratin at Shouldham, Ashwicken, North Wootton, St Michaels, Hunstanton, Emneth, Terrington St Clements, Snettisham, Swaffham Junior, Upwell, Wimbotsham & Stow.

Schools who had County top 3 results were:

Upwell – Yr 4 Sportshall, Yr 3 Trigolf, Yr 4 Trigolf

Sandringham & West newton – Yr 5 Sportshall, Yr 1 Cross Country

Denver – Yr 5 Sportshall, Yr 6 Sportshall

Emneth – Yr 6 Sportshall

Marshland St James – Yr 1 Trigolf Winners, Yr 2 Trigolf Winners

Dersingham – Yr1 Trigolf, Yr 3 Cross Country, Yr 6 Cross Country

Wimbotsham & Stow – Yr 3 Trigolf Winners, Yr 4 Trigolf

Hilgay Riverside – Yr 4 Trigolf Winners

Ten Mile Bank Riverside – Yr 5 Trigolf Winners

Docking – Yr 6 Trigolf

At present Ashwicken, Dersingham, South Wootton Infant, Denver and Sandringham are awaiting the results for the Gymnastics challenge.

The WNSSP team continues to support our schools this term by providing challenge activities in Fitness, OAA, Panathlon, Personal challenge and Leadership with an aim to keep as many students actively engaged whether it be within school or at Home.

There will also be weekly challenges within target activity areas published each week which can be completed at home – these will go live on Weds 13^th Jan and can be found on our website at www.westnorfolkssp.co.uk or on out Twitter account @westnorfolkssp – start following now for regular updates.