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Active School of the Year - Little Common School

A Bexhill primary school has won Active School of the Year in this year’s Sussex Sports Awards.

Little Common School in Shepherds Close, Bexhill, won the award organised by Active Sussex at the event held at Sussex County Cricket Ground in Hove on Thursday (November 24).

The primary school has achieved School Games Platinum and its third Quality Start Premium Plus award, with validators describing PE at Little Common as ‘exemplary’.

As an active and healthy school, the school took part in the ‘Creating Active Schools’ pilot and achieved the East Sussex Healthy Schools Award with Excellence - the first school in the South of England to achieve this.

At the school, 96 percent of pupils attend an extracurricular club, 100 percent of vulnerable groups attend a club and 100 percent of pupils take part in competitions.

On receiving her award, PE lead Katie Chapman said: “Every year I drive for 100 per cent of pupils to be active.

“As we track all 620 pupils - and it is no mean feat and is quite tricky - it allows us to make sure we provide activity and challenges and target those inactive children and this year I will get all 100 percent.”

She went on to say: “It feels absolutely amazing to win this year because the other schools were fantastic in terms of what they deliver in terms of PE and sport within their schools.

“We do what we do to promote activity for pupils in our school, for families, and for the community.

“Getting children active and creating activities for them so that they find a sport they love is really important to us at Little Common.