Bridge of Don Academy received news this week that we have been awarded the SportScotland Gold School Sport Award. This improves on the Silver status in which we already held and means we are one of only 92 other schools in the whole of Scotland who are at Gold level.
The Gold School Sport Award is recognition of our school’s achievements in putting sport at the heart of our school’s planning, practice and ethos.
The Gold Award also highlights that our school has shown excellent practice across the core areas of the Award and demonstrated an on-going commitment to increase young people’s opportunities and engagement in physical education, school sport and leadership and provide clear pathways to life-long participation in sport.
The core areas in which the school excelled are:
1. Physical education
2. School sport
3. Pathways
4. Compete and perform
5. Celebrating sport
6. Leadership
7. Career Long Professional Learning (CLPL)
8. Recognition and awards
9. Access to school facilities
