Sporting at Ark Castledown
We provide every pupil with the opportunity to take part in a broad range of sports and physical activities. Ark Castledown has a diverse range of sports enrichment clubs available for students, both after school and throughout lunchtime, to support their love of physical activity, develop sportsperson skills, and refine knowledge and sporting ability. Students also have the chance to play competitively against other schools, for example, at the Hastings football tournament. We welcome pupils of all levels and ability; team sports are about having fun, staying fit and being part of a community.
Gold School Games
We are delighted to announce that Ark Castledown Primary Academy, have achieved the School Games Gold Mark Award for the 2023/24 academic year and have maintained this standard.
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.
Our sporting achievements include:
- Offering a wide variety of extra-curricular enrichment lunchtime and after school clubs.
- 100% of our pupils access an enrichment club across the academic year.
- Our KS2 children participating in a large number of different sporting competitions.
- High engagement in activities during lunchtimes.
- An increased number of children participating in Sports Clubs outside of school.
- Raising the profile of Sports and Exercise at Ark Castledown.
- Pupils competing in Sussex County Finals!
With over 80 young people competing 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.