DEADLINE 27th March 2026 - Primary and Junior schools to log on to your School Games Dashboard and access your Inclusive Health Check.  This needs to be completed by the end of this term. 

Schools can take part in the Girls Active survey this summer term to understand student participation, attitudes, motivators and barriers to PE and physical activity. The timeline for 2026 is: 

• Registration from: Monday 2 February to Thursday 30 April
• Survey open: Friday 8 May to Friday 19 June
• Personalised school insight report delivered: w/c Monday 29 June.
• The survey is available to primary, middle, all-through and secondary schools for students in Key Stages 2-5. Schools can choose from different options, including short or long survey formats, age ranges, and whether to include both female and male participants. Click below to register your interest.

Our new initiative encourages primary schools to exchange equipment instead of throwing it away. By sharing resources, we can reduce waste, support each other, and give items a second life—helping both our schools and the environment.

If you have any equipment that you feel someone else could use, please complete the live form below.  We will then share this with all of you in the Weekly News update.

WE CURRENTLY HAVE 17 PIECES OF EQUIPMENT WHICH NEED A NEW HOME, click the link below

Parent Tickets (Important Information)

Parents are very welcome to attend. All tickets will be sold through Ticket Source.

Initial Ticket Allocation

• Each school will receive 1 ticket per child to ensure every pupil has at least one person in the audience.
• Your number of tickets depends on your submitted pupil numbers.
• Tickets available Monday 9th March at 10am – Monday 16th March at 10am

Important:
If parents purchase more than one ticket per child during this window, excess tickets will be cancelled and refunded.
Please highlight this clearly to families, especially where children live across multiple households.

Your school’s contact number will be listed on Ticket Source, so please ensure the correct details are shared to avoid confusion and duplicate booking for the same child.

Additional Tickets (General Sale)

After the initial sales window closes and final numbers are reviewed, any spare tickets will go on sale:

• Wednesday 18th March at 10am

QR codes for both initial and additional ticket sales have been sent to you in a separate email in January.

Please check your QR code before distributing it.
If anything is incorrect, contact us immediately so we can fix it.

No tickets will be available on the door — all sales must go through Ticket Source.

Free Taster Sessions

Y3–6 T1 Rugby Pilot
We are pleased to share that we have secured new funding to deliver an exciting rugby taster session at your school. Following the session, your pupils will be automatically entered into one of the upcoming festivals hosted at a local rugby club.

National Schools Cricket Day – 23rd April
To celebrate the upcoming T20 Women’s Cricket World Cup, we are also offering a Girls’ Cricket taster session for Years 3–6 on Tuesday 23rd April. As this opportunity is limited to one day only, places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

To secure your school’s place for either activity, please contact Paul Ryan at p.ryan@brookfieldcs.org.uk.

PlayHers Football Programme - Free Online Teacher Training & Resources

PlayHers is a new inclusive football programme, powered by England Football and the Premier League, designed to help girls aged 7–11 years-old grow in confidence, build essential life skills, and enjoy the game, whatever their experience or ability.

Through fun football activities, PlayHers supports girls to develop self-belief, teamwork, and resilience, helping them take pride in what they achieve both on and off the pitch.

Schools can access free online teacher training and digital resources to support the delivery of this fantastic extra-curricular programme.

Well Schools

Well Schools is a movement of over 2,000 schools and trusts taking positive action to improve education outcomes by supporting the health and happiness of their staff and pupils across the UK.

By joining the Well Schools movement, schools commit to prioritising wellbeing alongside academic achievement. Participants reflect on best practice, access a growing bank of resources, and demonstrate their commitment to a whole-school approach through the free-to-access Well Check and Well Schools Accreditation.

The Well Check and Well Schools Accreditation is currently available to all schools in the UK with pupils aged between 4-18. To create your Well Schools development plan, please log in or register for a free Youth Sport Trust account.

JOIN HERE

Inclusive Activity Programme (IAP)  

The IAP schools workshop helps teachers and school staff build the confidence and skills needed to ensure every pupil can take part, be challenged, and make progress in PE and school sport. The workshop shows you how to adapt activities to be inclusive for all pupils and how to use a person-centred approach when planning and delivering PE sessions. 

When: Friday 27^th March 2026

Time: 9.30am – 12.30pm

Where: Barnby Road Academy, John Gold Avenue Newark. NG24 1RU. 

Deadline for booking: Monday 9^th March 2026

Course details

• A three-hour practical workshop tailored to your school staff (maximum 16 participants per workshop). 
• An interactive online workbook.
• Access to tips, resources and further support on the Learning Hub and personalised learner dashboard.
• Further development and learning opportunities.

Learning outcomes

During this practical workshop, you will learn how to:

• Increase your confidence and competence to include disabled and SEND pupils in your lessons and activities.  
• Understand why inclusion is important for your pupils.
• Try out different inclusion approaches: Activity Inclusion Model and STEP Tool.
• Learn how to apply a range of tools to make your activities more inclusive. 
• Reflect on your current delivery and identify how you can improve.
• Access further support, training and opportunities for yourself and disabled people you work with.

Who is this course suitable for?

• Anyone working in an education setting
• Teachers (although, may be too basic for PE leads)
• Teaching assistants
• Trainee teachers
• Lunchtime supervisors
• Sports leaders and coaches working in schools

Course completion

Each participant will receive 3 CIMSPA CPD points upon completion

Derbyshire Cricket Foundation - Free Cricket Taster Days

To support the Youth National Programmes, AllStars and Dynamos, that have run at local cricket clubs throughout the summer, The Derbyshire Cricket Foundation have free cricket taster days available to state primary schools throughout the County. 

The day consists of 2/3 sessions in the morning, 2 in the afternoon and the option of an assembly. We can work around your school timetable to suit your needs. It is also open to KS1 and KS2. 

The free day of cricket activity is to promote the National Programmes that are happening at Cricket Clubs in the area. These are AllStars (for 5-8 year olds) and Dynamos Cricket (for 8-11 year olds).

We will also offer informal CPD to your staff during the sessions as well as showing how they could run cricket lessons themselves through the Free Chance to Shine Cricket Resources (produced by Youth Sport Trust) https://www.chancetoshine.org/teaching-resources. These resources are broken into different Key Stages and have clear links to National Curriculum Outcomes and Physical Literacy.

If your school is interested in a free cricket taster day, please fill in this Microsoft Form with your availability. We will endeavour to get to as many schools as we can. Derbyshire Cricket Foundation Free Cricket Taster Day 2026 – Fill in form

If you have already accessed free cricket from us this academic year, we will not be able to offer you any more at this time.

Comets is Coming to Schools!

We know pupils with SEND can often find the pressures of sport and exercise overwhelming and challenging.

That is why, working with the Youth Sport Trust, England Football and the Premier League, we are excited to introduce Comets.

Comets is a fun, pressure-free environment where boys and girls with SEND can play football and be themselves.

We have created an online training course that fits around your busy schedule.
After completing the training, we'll provide FREE resources including:
• Footballs 
• Bibs 
• Emotion cue cards 
• A range of fidget toys