This Wednesday #BrumMoves took over the Utilita Arena Birmingham for an unforgettable School Games Primary Athletics Experience. In partnership with Birmingham City Councill and School Games Organisers, we welcomed primary school pupils from across the city to build physical literacy, master fundamental movement skills, and most importantly, have fun!

Highlights of the day

Maddy Whapples joined us for the day to share experience as a young athlete to inspire the next generation.

Shoutout to Davies Sports for providing schools goody bags to take away on the day!

Thank you to all of our delivery partners on the day for creating unforgettable memories: London Marathon Foundation The Daily Mile UK parkrun Access Sport England Athletics Mini Warriors and Birmingham Athletics Academy!

Plus, support on the day from our wonderful Young Leaders from Cockshut Hill School and Archbishop Ilsley!

The guest appearances didn't stop there! We were surprised by the incredible Lina Nielsen and Laviai Nielsen, who helped launch the Birmingham 2026 European Athletics Championships volunteering scheme! Find out more about volunteering here: https://www.birmingham26.com/.../european.../volunteer

Visit Sport Birmingham's Education Hub here: https://sportbirmingham.org/our-work/education-2/

Final Standings

1^st - Birchfield A - 61 points

2^nd - Mansfield Green C / Chilwell Croft - 56 points

3^rd - Mansfield Green A / Sacred Heart - 52 points

4^th - Highfield B / Birchfield B - 48 points

5^th - Mansfield Green D- 44 points

6^th - Highfield A / The Oval A - 34 points

7^th - Mansfield Green B - 33 points

8^th - St Michael's - 30 points

9^th - Westminster / Manor Park B - 28 points

10^th - Manor Park A - 25 points

11th - The Oval B - 23 points

12^th - Manor Park C - 22 points

13^th - Paget A - 19 points

14^th - St Jospeh's A -  16 points

15^th - Paget B - 11 points

16^th - St Joseph's B - 4 points

It has been especially rewarding to see the clear improvements made by both schools and individual players as the league progressed. The effort, teamwork, and sportsmanship shown by the students have been fantastic and made the league thoroughly enjoyable to be part of.

Congratulations to King Solomon on winning the Basketball League this season, a well-deserved achievement.

Thanks to Eddie Parsons for once again running a fantastic event for us and to the outstanding leaders from KE Handsworth Girls who supported all your pupils throughout the day. Finally, thank you to all the staff who attended with the pupils as they would not be there without you!

The positions of each school from each session are shown below. Points are not included in the individual sessions, as all results were combined into one spreadsheet. Congratulations to King Solomon and St Joseph's who will represent the partnership at the county finals in March.

Session 1

1^st King Solomon

2^nd Kings Norton AM

3^rd Greet

4^th Anglesey 

5^th Waverley

6^th Arden 

7^th Prince Albert

8^th Al-Furqan

9^th Washwood Heath

10^th Heathlands

11^th Cotteridge

Session 2

1^st Kings Norton PM

2^nd Chilcote

3^rd St Josephs

4^th Hollywood

5^th The Oval

6^th  Montgomery

7^th  Highfield

8^th  Starbank STR

9th Starbank HR
10^th Regents Park

11^th Starbank BR

Group A:

1^st - Blakesley Hall A

2^nd - Montgomery A

3^rd - Washwood Heath

4^th - Manor Park B 

5^th - Lozells

Group B:

1^st - Paget

2^nd - Westminster

3^rd - Anglesey

4^th - Parkfield A 

5^th  - Montgomery B

Group C:

1^st - Kings Norton 

2^nd - Mansfield Green

3^rd - Highfield

4^th - Blakesley Hall B

5^th  - Manor Park A

Group D:

1^st - The Rosary

2^nd - Heathfield 

Joint 3^rd Parkfield B and Sacred Heart

5th - Birchfield

Some great games in the group stage were followed by some close and exciting semi-finals and final games. Our top 4 teams were:

Overall Champions:

1^st - Kings Norton Primary

2^nd - Paget

3^rd - Blakesley Hall A

4^th - The Rosary

The overall results were extremely close:

1^st - Manor Park A

2^nd - Paget

3^rd - James Watt

4^th - Chilwell Croft

5^th - Heathfield A / Birchfield

6^th - Manor Park B / Heathfield C

7^th - Heathfield B

8^th - Westminster

1st - James Watt

2nd - Heathfield

3rd - Westminster

The children of James Watt also had the opportunity to form a guard of honour for the Warwickshire Bears at Edgbaston as their prize. A massive thanks to Warwickshire Cricket Foundation for providing such an amazing prize and umpiring our matches!

1^st - Mansfield Green A - 79 points

2^nd - Westminster - 77 points

3^rd - Paget B / Paget A - 63 points

4^th - Paget C - 57 points

5^th - Nechells / Mansfield Green B - 56 points

6^th - Chilwell Croft - 50 points

7^th - The Oval B - 45 points

8^th - Sacred Heart - 44 points

9th - Highfield A - 43 points

10th - The Oval A - 41 points

11th - Nechells B - 40 points

12th - Mansfield Green C - 37 points

13^th - Birchfield A / Birchfield B - 24 points

14th - Highfield B - 18 points

15th - Manor Park B - 8 points

16th - St Joseph's / Manor Park C - 7 points

17^th - Manor Park A - 4 points

Congratulations to Mansfield Green A who win the trophy for the 3^rd time and to all the medallists and children who took part!

208 young people took part, and as always, it was great to see so much support for the event and to see so much talent on display.

A big thanks to all the young leaders from Bishop Vessey who helped to run the field events and track finishes and to Eddie who ran the track events. Many thanks also to all the Birmingham SGO's that helped the event run smoothly and to all staff for bringing their students on the day.

Paget primary won our first ever medal at the county finals, scooping a bronze placed finish - congratulations to all the young people who competed on the day!

Below are the final standings on the day:

Year 5+6 Sports Hall Athletics

1^st - Wylde Green

2^nd - Kings Norton Primary

3^rd - Paget Primary

4^th - Hillstone

5^th - Chilcote

6^th - Green Meadow

7^th - New Oscott

8^th - Welsh House Farm

9^th - Colmore Juniors

10^th - Bordesley Green

11^th - Greet

12^th - Billesley Primary

In the afternoon, the girls got the amazing experience of delivering a football session on the grass at the stadium and developed their empathy, communication and organisational skills. Many thanks to the Youth Sport Trust, Dan and Kevin for delivering such a great experience for the girls!

175 goals were scored across all fixtures, which is simply fantastic.

Congratulations to all the girls who took part and a big thanks the referees from Hall Green and Diamond Acadmey. 

Pool A

1^st - Kings Norton Primary -21 points

2^nd -Blakesley Hall - 18 points 

3^rd Ark Victoria - 16 points

4^th Highfield - 15 points

5^th Anglesey - 14 points

6^th Cromwell -12 points

7^th Bordesley Village - 8 points

8^th Birchfield - 5 points 

Pool B

1^st Paget - 21 points

2^nd Mansfield Green - 19 points

Joint 3^rd Chilwell Croft - 14 points

Joint 3^rd Al-Furqan - 14 points

5^th Regent's Park - 13 points

6^th Westminster - 12 points

7^th Wyndcliffe - 11 points

8^th Montgomery B - 8 points

Pool C

1^st James Watt- 19 points

2^nd Greet - 18 points 

3^rd Montgomery A - 17 points

4^th Alston - 15 points ( +1 goal difference)

5^th Lozells - 15 points (-6 goal difference)

6^th Heartlands - 13 points

7^th Marlborough - 9 points

8^th The Oval - 5 points 

The winners of each pool and the highest placed runner up across all groups progressed to the semis/ final:

Semi 1- KNP v Mansfield Green

Semi 2-Paget v James Watt

Bronze Medal Match-  James Watt v Mansfield Green

Gold Medal Match - KNP v Paget

Overall positions

1^st KNP

2^nd Paget

3^rd James Watt

4^th Mansfield Green

A memorable day for everyone involved!

1st - Welford

2nd - St Michael's

3rd  - Cromwell

Well done to all the young people that took part in our first ever Target 60 league!

Congratulations to all the young people who took part and a big thanks to the young leaders from Aston Manor Academy and Yardley's who umpired the games brilliantly.

1st - Westminster - 88 points

2^nd - The Oval B - 69 points

3rd  - Mansfield Green A - 68 points

4th - Sacred Heart A - 64 points

5th - The Oval A - 61  points

6th - Mansfield Green B - 55 points

7th - Paget A - 52 points

8th  - Chilwell A -48 points

9th  - Nechells A - 42 points

10th - Paget B - 39 points

11th - Paget C - 38 points

12th - Mansfield Green C - 37 points

13^th Highfield - 30 points

14th - Chilwell Croft B - 21 points

15th -Welford A - 19 points

16th - St Jospeh's - 18 points

17th - Sacred Heart B - 14 points

18^th Lozells- 13 points

19th - Prince Albert - 10 points

20th - Welford B - 9 points

21st - St Chad's - 5 points

A big thanks also to the staff who brought the young people to the event and umpired some of the games!

Congratulations to all the girls who took part and our medal winners:

Primary:

1st - Paget

2nd - Manor Park

3rd - Chilwell Croft

Secondary

1st - Holyhead

2nd - St Paul's Girls School

3rd - Holy Trinity

A huge thanks to Rena, our DJ, Dean for providing all our referees and to the SGO's who ran the event and all the staff for bringing their teams out today!

Our overall standings were as follows:

1^st - King Solomon - 54 points

2^nd - Paget A - 41 points

3^rd - St Jospeh's - 35 points

4^th - The Oval - 34 points

5^th - Paget B - 21 points

6^th - Westminster - 12 points

7^th - St Vincent's - 8 points

Ten local schools took part in the event at a series of stations, designed to focus on agility, balance, stiking, running, jumping and aiming. Congratulations to the pupils from St Joseph's Catholic Primary School who scored the most points on the day!

A big thanks to the students from Aston Manor who ran the activities brilliantly for our primary school pupils - well done!

A big thanks to our juding panel; Lauren from Sport Birmingham, Chris from the Active Society and Charley from KDDK Dance. Also a huge thanks to our Student Judge Panel from St. Paul's Girls School. You all showed great empathy, maturity and enthusiam in your feedback. THANK YOU!

Congratulations to our winning act from Welford Primary who progress on to our county finals at the Hippodrome.

A big thanks to all the staff for braving the cold and to the pupils who took part. Our top three teams were:

1st - Paget Primary

2nd - The Oval A

3rd - The Oval B

Despite snow all day, all the games were played in a great spirit, with schools representing a country playing in this years' women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. After a very close first round stage, the four teams who won their groups progressed to the semi-finals. In the primary event, the bronze medals were shared between King Solomon International Business school and Mansfield Green Primary. In the gold medal match, Paget Primary overcame Conway Primary to win the title of the Biggest Ever Primary Football Session Champions 2023.

As the snow continued to fall, 20 secondary schools competed in 4 different pools. George Dixon Academy, King Edward Handsworth Girls, Holy Trinity and Washwood Heath all won their groups and headed into the semi-finals. In the bronze medal match, King Edward Handsworth Girls and Washwood Heath shared the bronze medals, with George Dixon Academy pipping Holy Trinity to the gold medals.

All the matches across the day were played in a great spirit, with some exciting talent on the pitch. Well done to all the girls who took part and a big thanks to the FA, Sport Birmingham, our referees, Aston Villa FC, young leaders from Hall Green School and to all the staff who supported the event. Highlights were shown on ITV Central news as well as live radio interviews with some of the staff and girls at the event. A future case study will be produced by the FA and Youth Sport Trust in due course. Across the country, 285,000 girls took part in the Biggest Ever Football Session - enough to fill Wembley Stadium three times over!

Primary results

Group 1

1^st Mansfield Green

2^nd The Oval

3^rd Greet 

4^th Starbank

5^th Cromwell

6^th Bordesley Village

Group 2

1^st Paget (by coin toss)

2^nd Adderley 

3^rd Audley

4^th Washwood Heath

5^th Leigh Trust

6^th Lozells- did not attend

Group 3

1^st Conway

2^nd Oasis Blakenhale

3^rd Westminster

4^th Benson

5^th English Martyrs'

6^th St Chad's

Group 4

1^st King Soloman

2^nd Chilwell Croft 

3^rd Olive School, Birmingham

4^th Montgomery 

4^th Prince Albert

6^th Blakesley Hall

Final 1-4 placing after finals

1^st Paget

2^nd Conway

3^rd Mansfield Green

4^th King Soloman

Congratulations to Conway from the Central Area in placing 2nd.

Secondary results

Pool 1

1^st Holy Trinity

2^nd Starbank 1

3^rd Yardley's 1

4^th  Prince Albert

Pool 2

1^st Ark Victoria 1

2^nd Yardley's 2

3^rd Broadway 

3^rd Holyhead 2

5^th St John Wall

Pool 3

1^st King Edwards Handsworth 1

2^nd George Dixon 2

3^rd Starbank 2

4^th Holyhead 1

5^th Waverley 2

Pool 4

1^st George Dixon 1

2^nd King Edwards Handsworth 2

3^rd Hall Green

4^th Ark Victoria 2

5^th Waverley 1

Final 1-4 placing after finals

1^st George Dixon 1

2^nd Holy Trinity

3^rd Ark Victoria 1

3^rd  King Edward Handsworth 1

1st - Paget Primary

2nd - Westminster

3rd - Chilwell Croft

4th - Welford / King Solomon

5th - Benson

6th - The Oval

A big thank you to the superb young leaders from Aston Manor Academy for officiating the events and encouraging all the participants to achieve their best - great job everyone!

To access all the Disney resources head to www.girlsfootballinschools.org, register and download pupil and staff resources. You can also book onto staff training to support staff in their delivery in school.

Many thanks to the young leaders from King Edward Handsworth Girls School and Aston Manor Academy for officiating the events so efficiently and encouraging all the participants.

After a very close race, the final placings were as follows:

1st - Paget

2nd - King Solomon

3rd - Westminster

4th - Welford

5th - The Oval

6th - St Joseph's

Congratulations to Paget Primary who progress on to the county finals in March.

Here are our winning quotes from our primary girls from Mansfield Green Primary and Greet Primary School:

Your prizes will be with you by the end of the Autumn Term! Well done and thank you to all the girls who told us there inspiration for playing!

Well done to all the young people that took part and to the school staff for overseeing all the entries. Watch out for our next Personal Challenge on February!

Here are some extracts from the winning entry:

"A highlight across the UK has been the World Cup. We have seen inspiration from footballers whilst watching the matches (England vs Iran) and we will have a ‘World Cup’ of our own…

….we think that not only will this boost our physical health, but also our mental health as we have fun...

This year the sporting achievements at the Commonwealth Games, Women’s Euro’s and the Men’s World Cup has given passion, respect, self-belief and determination to our generation. "

After a very close competition, we can reveal our top 3 schools:

1st place - The Oval Primary School

2nd place - City Road Primary

3rd place - Westminster Primary 

After Christmas, we will be launching our virtual archery league - schools can book their slot now! 

King Solomon vs. Greet

The Oval vs. Bordesley Green

After some very good defending, both events were won by a single goal. Congratulations to King Solomon and The Oval who won there respective events. A big thanks to all the staff for bringing their players to the event! We look forward to seeing you all again at the Biggest Football Event Ever on the 8th March 2022!

After a very close event, Moor Hall Primary were crowned as our 2022 champions! Well done to all the staff and young people involved on the day!

For the first time ever, we have 4 secondary schools who have achieved a gold award; King Edward Aston, King Edward Handsworth Girls School, Broadway Academy and Aston Manor Academy.  Our primary schools who have a gold award were Paget Primary, Welford, The Oval, Manor Park Academy, Nechells Academy and Sacred Heart. Congratulations to all these schools.

In total, schools in the partnership have achieved 24 awards. We are really proud of the efforts of staff, pupils and families and the input that they have had in these achievements. Well done everybody.

Our top three teams were:

1st - Nechells Academy

2nd - Benson Community School

3rd - Welford Primary School

Students from George Dixon Academy and St Paul's Girls School also attending the event, showcasing their talents which have seen students appear on Britain's Got Talent and reach the Big Dance Off National finals. What a brilliant example for all our primary school dancers.

All the dance acts performed with courage and confidence and the final standings very extremely close.  Congratulations to the pupils and staff from Paget primary school who posted the best score with our judge and student judges!

Congratulations to all the pupils who took part and a big thank you to the wonderful staff at Lozells primary school for hosting us. Our top three schools were:

1st - The Oval

2nd - Lozells Primary

3rd - Benson Primary

The events were played in a great spirit with every school going home with at least one set of medals and one set of School Games badges.

A big thank you to the staff at King Edward Aston for umpiring the hockey competition and to British Dodgeball for organising the dodgeball event.

Congratulations to our medal winners in each event:

Year 3/4 Dodgeball - 1st - Paget, 2nd - The Oval, 3rd - James Watt

Year 5/6 Dodgeball - 1st - Paget, 2nd Heathfield, 3rd - Nechells

Year 3/4 Hockey - 1st Paget, 2nd - The Oval, 3rd - Mansfeild Green

Year 5/6 Hockey- 1st Paget, 2nd - Mansfield Green, 3rd - Nechells

The festival took part at Aston Manor Academy with year 9 students working with the primary children to teach them new skills. The sports leaders were absolutely fantastic and were a credit to their school. A big thank you to all the staff for bringing pupils out of their school and to the staff at Aston Manor for hosting the event. 

We can't wait to see the impact the project has on girls this year.

Many thanks to Birmingham Rockets for proving the referees for the games.

The final standings were very close! Congratulations to all the young people who took part.

1st - King Solomon

2nd - Chilwell Croft

3rd - Paget A

4th - Paget B

5th - Welford

6th - Manor Park

The winners will now receive our engraved Basketball trophy and a Perry for their school. Basketball is a Commonwealth Games sport so watch out for it at the games in the summer! Head to https://www.birmingham2022.com/the-games/sports/basketball/ to find out more!

After a very closely fought league, Paget Primary were declared the winners and are the second name on our boys football shield. Congratulations to all the boys - well done!

Many thanks to all the staff who attended the event and congratulations to the pupils from Welford Primary school who won on the day and take home our first Perry!

A big thanks to all the staff who brought the pupils to the competition!

1st - Paget Primary School A

2nd - Welford Primary School

3rd - King Solomon Academy

4th - The Oval Primary School

5th - Sacred Heart A

6th - Manor Park

7th - Paget Primary School B

8th - Lozells Primary

9th - Sacred Heart B

Many thanks to all the staff who came along to support the young people at the event!

If your school would still like to access the content for Wellbeing Week, please feel free to download the resource pack below:

1st - Paget Primary School

2nd - Manor Park Primary School

3rd - St Vincent's Primary

4th - Mansfield Green Primary

5th - Nechells Primary

6th - James Watt Primary

7th - Bordesley Village Primary

8th - Cromwell Primary

9th - The Oval

10th - Prince Albert Primary

11th - Heathfield Primary

12th - Sacred Heart

Congratulations to all the schools and young people who have taken part. We now move in to the summer term where our School Games trophy will be up for grabs!

Activity Advocates of the Term - Paget Primary Lunchtime Supervisors.  These lunchtime supervisors have planned and delivered school games activities and competitions at lunchtime to pupils at Paget primary school. As a result, pupils have tried different activities and competed against other schools virtually across the partnership and the city of Birmingham. We appreciate everything they do on a day to day basis - well done to all!

Partner of the Term - KDDK Dance (Katie Driscoll) - Katie has worked worked in many schools in the partnership for many years to teach and deliver dance lessons to all age ranges. In this difficult time, Katie has still managed to work with a range of different pupils to engage them in many forms of dance. Congratulations on your award Katie!

 PE and School Sport Award - David Camps, Nechells Primary - Since joining the partnership this year, David has worked extremely hard to put PE and School Sport at the heart of the school. Pupils have taken part in a range of school games activities and staff have taken part in their first CPD  session with the partnership. As a result, Nechells primary are currently 4th in the School Games winter table - a great effort this term, well done!

School of the Term - James Watt Primary / St Vincent's Catholic Primary - both schools have embraced the school games activities and giving their pupils the opportunity to take part in a variety of activities. We are really proud of both schools, staff and pupils for their great work this term - well done! 

1. Miss Dobbie - Manor Park Acadmey / VW - Manor Park Academy

2.  FD, Manor Park Academy

3. Miss Spiers, Paget Primary

Well done to everyone who took part and set an excellent example to all the young people within the partnership!