The School Games programme for the Braintree District is based at The Ramsey Academy and its organiser is Howard Nicholls. The aims are to increase the level of sports competition in and between schools, to increase leadership opportunities for students to promote inclusion the National Change 4 Life initiative.

Recently, The Ramsey Academy hosted the Halstead area cross country event which involved five schools and over one hundred and eighty boys and girls from Years 3 to 6 with winning schools and individuals in each category invited to the Braintree District Finals to be held on 23 March at the Discovery Centre. St Andrew’s Halstead won five of the team races with Earls Colne winning two and St Peter’s Coggeshall winning one. The Ramsey Academy Year 8 students provided the marshalling for the event and were widely praised for their encouragement and attitude.

Earls Colne also triumphed in the indoor Sportshall Athletics Halstead Area Competition, coming out top against St Andrew’s Halstead, St Peter’s and St Andrew’s Great Yeldham. Competitors raised the roof in the sportshall with their vocal support and Ramsey Academy students again providing excellent support by acting as officials in both the track and field events. In the District Final Earls Colne came a creditable third place with Howbridge Junior School Witham winning and so representing the district at the Essex Final against thirteen other schools.

The Ramsey Academy students also helped organise the New Age Kurling Festival for SEN pupils. Ultimately this led to a competition that Beckers Green from Braintree won, thus securing their place at the Essex Final.

As an introduction to the later indoor mini red competition, The Ramsey Academy was the venue for the Year 3 and 4 Tennis Festival with thirty two children taking part with a tennis coach helping at the event. The competition scheduled for June prior to the County Competition will be keenly contested.

The tennis provision and the raising of standards will also be helped by The Ramsey Academy being a successful applicant for the which will provide resources, coaching and equipment.

Other School Games events that have been hosted by Ramsey Academy for local primary schools include 7-a-side football - won by St Andrew’s Halstead and mixed tag Rugby won by St Peter’s Coggeshall.