Sport and Physical Activities
The school runs 43 weekly extra-curricular sports clubs and activities, its facilities include a sports hall, gymnasium, a mini-sports hall, a fitness suite, a PE lab, six tennis and netball courts, two full-sized football pitches, cricket nets and a floodlit all-weather hockey/five-a-side football pitch all on site.
County Upper School won the 2011 BBC Look East School of the Year for Sport, was selected the Suffolk Sport "Secondary School of the Year" Award sponsored by Ipswich Town FC Community Trust in 2011, won the St Edmundsbury "School of the Year Award" for sport in both 2008 and 2011, gained the Association for Physical Education (afPE) Quality Mark with Distinction in autumn 2012 after being asked by the Association to help pilot the new scheme nationally, is partner school of both Sport England and the Youth Sport Trust via the Sportsmark Scheme and offers a wide variety of sport and team games. It has achieved Football Association Charter Standard Secondary Development School status in recognition for the quality of its coaching. The school works with the East of England coach for British cycling and also fields an equestrian team.
School teams were the Suffolk U15 cricket and U16 netball champions for the 2010-11 season and the U17 rounders team reached the semi-finals of the English National Schools Championships in July 2011.
The captain of Suffolk County Cricket team, Mr Justin Bishop, is a PE teacher and cricket coach for the school and Miss Heather Lymburn, also on the PE staff, is a member of the England Senior Korfball Squad.
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