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The School Games (formerly known as UK School Games) is an annual sporting competition for elite school-age [clarification needed] athletes in the United Kingdom that began in 2006. The event was based on an Olympic Games model, with multiple sports events held across an intensive four-day period.
For this reason the public school games can claim to be origin of the forward-passing game. Passing the ball continues to this day in surviving traditional public school association football games. Even in Harrow Football, which is essentially a dribbling game, the ball may be chipped into the hands of a team-mate. [4] [55]
In 2006, the UK School Games was established by the Youth Sport Trust as an annual sporting competition for elite school age athletes in the United Kingdom, and by 2008, was expanded to include nine sports over four days.
While the game of British Bulldog is a conglomerate of different sources and pre-existing rules, [4] the origin of the name is not entirely clear. In his book The Nation's Favourite, Guardian author Mathew Clayton (Free University of Glastonbury) clarified that, unlike other games, British Bulldog did not emerge until the 1930s. [8]
Schools' Football Week is a national campaign organised by the English Schools' Football Association encouraging schools' across England to engage in footballing activities. [8] The week runs in the last week of February but had to be postponed until May in 2021 due to the Covid-19 Pandemic.
From January 2002 it recruited 250 undergraduates to go into schools to be involved with school sport, to coincide with the 2002 Commonwealth Games. It was sponsored by Nestlé UK, and was called Team Nestlé. [14]
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The track and field championships have been held every year since 1925 (except for 1940–1945 due to World War II), are the 4th largest athletics event in the world and since 2003 have been held at the major athletics venues of Birmingham Alexander Stadium, Sportscity, Manchester,Gateshead International Stadium and former Sheffield Don Valley Stadium.