The sportscotland School Sport Award was paused in March 2020, and over the last couple of years it has been reviewed and refreshed with help and feedback from a number of our partners.

Some of the key changes include:

• New assessment tool website and questions
• Increased focus on continuous improvement, with a new action planning section on the website
• Awards can be achieved all year round, no need to wait until the end of the academic year
• Streamlined Gold application process – we have listened and acted, and reduced the amount of evidence needed to apply

The sportscotland School Sport Award is a national, Lottery funded initiative designed to encourage schools to continuously improve physical education (PE) and school sport opportunities offered within their School. 

The sportscotland School Sport Award: 

• Encourages schools to self-reflect and continuously improve  
• Puts young people at the forefront of the decision making and planning of PE and sport in their school  
• Helps schools to increase young people’s opportunities and engagement in PE & school sport  
• Helps schools to put PE & school sport at the heart of their planning, practice and ethos  
• Recognises and celebrates successful PE & school sport models 

Why should your school get involved? 

The benefits of the sportscotland School Sport Award to schools are as follows: 

• To Identify current strengths and areas for improvement in PE & school sport  
• It provides a development plan template to improve any areas of weakness  
• You get national recognition with a sportscotland School Sport Award

If you are interested in applying for a School Sport Award, please head to the follow page to see what your first steps are: https://sportscotland.org.uk/schools/school-sport-award/

You can also contact your Active Schools coordinator for support throughout this process.

Our Gold Award schools:

• Clepington Primary School
• Grove Academy
• Claypotts Castle Primary School
• SS Peter and Paul Primary School