Sports in the Community

East Point Academy is the host site for the North Suffolk Sport and Health Partnership, which supports local schools in their health and wellbeing.

This partnership has been run by our School Games Organiser for the past 12 years, supporting our 46 local schools. In total there are over 450 SGOs who work across the country to support schools in their local area.

The North Suffolk Sport and Health Partnership offers its 35 local primary schools over 38 opportunities each year designed to support students confidence, emotional wellbeing, health, social connections, independence and individual development in sport. This allows pupils from local primary schools to attend events at East Point Academy and importantly engage and socialise with pupils from other local primary schools who they will be attending high school with.

Our students are at the heart of supporting these events through the Leadership Academy. East Point Leaders are offered many opportunities to coach, teach, lead and connect with primary pupils, developing their skills and exposing them to future possibilities of working in sport and education.

Students have to apply for the role of Sport Prefect through a written application. They need to demonstrate their commitment and enthusiasm to physical activity within PE lessons and extra-curricular clubs and the ability to be a good role model to others.

In addition to the comprehensive Inspiration Trust sport programme, the students at

East Point Academy get access to 22 School Games Events such as, Ten Pin Bowling, Dodgeball, Orienteering, Swimming, Panathlon, Goalball, Boccia, Football, Cricket, Athletics, Basketball, Gymnastics, Rounders and Hockey. All these events include competitive and non-competitive experiences that meet the needs of different students.

Our membership to SPESN - Suffolk PE and Sport Network enables us to provide opportunities for our elite students to progress further. We are able to access County and Regional pathway events for Rugby, Football, Netball, Cricket, Cross Country and Badminton.

We have achieved the Gold School Games Mark for three years in a row and hope to achieve Platinum award in 2023-24, we will be the first secondary school in the area to do so. In 2021-22 we were shortlisted for the Suffolk Active Secondary School of the Year award in recognition of the range of sporting experiences our students have access to through our extra-curricular offer, student leadership opportunities and uptake of fixtures.

Our students’ commitment to sport is exemplary and we recognise this with our now annual Sports Awards Evening. Celebrating the sporting successes of over 170 students, it’s a key date in our calendar.