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OCTOBER AT UP & UNDER SPORTS!

From 1-to-1 mentoring sessions and after-school clubs to our October half-term courses and much more, there’s plenty happening!

Head over to our website to find out more and get booked on!
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— Up & Under Sports (@UpandUnderSport) October 1, 2026

Keep active, feel good, and make the most of term time!

Staying active isn’t just about sport. It can help us sleep better, support our physical health, reduce stress, boost our mental wellbeing and even help us perform better in the classroom.#UpAndUnderSports #KeepActive pic.twitter.com/mTVyZOjjF8

— Up & Under Sports (@UpandUnderSport) September 29, 2026

OCTOBER HALF TERM – ST JOHN'S MULTI SPORT COURSE

📅 Monday 26th – Thursday 29th October 2026
📍 St John’s Catholic Primary School
⏰ 9am – 4pm

Spaces are limited, so don’t miss out! 🔥

👉 BOOK NOW:https://t.co/XMprVY8Bix #UpAndUnderSports #OctoberHalfTerm #MultiSportsCourse pic.twitter.com/S7GkoEX326

— Up & Under Sports (@UpandUnderSport) September 26, 2026

BUILDING CONFIDENCE THROUGH SPORT

👏 Praising effort, not just results
⚽ Letting them own their sport
🙌 Focusing on enjoyment and progress

Sometimes the biggest confidence boost isn’t hearing “You won!”… it’s hearing “I’m proud of how hard you tried.” ❤️#UpAndUnderSports pic.twitter.com/CaIsQ6aHyr

— Up & Under Sports (@UpandUnderSport) September 25, 2026

OCTOBER HALF TERM IS BOOKABLE NOW!

📅 2-Day Camp: Thursday 22nd & Friday 23rd October
📅 4-Day Camp: Monday 26th – Thursday 29th October
📍 Hardenhuish School
⏰ 9am–4pm

Book Now – https://t.co/FvVpSQMmwY #UpAndUnderSports #OctoberHalfTerm #SchoolHolidays pic.twitter.com/piHJtWa2AH

— Up & Under Sports (@UpandUnderSport) September 19, 2026

SPORTING TIP OF THE WEEK!

Take the time to get your body ready. stretching and dynamic movement is a good warm-up helping prepare your muscles, get your heart rate up and get your cardiovascular system ready for exercise.

So remember: don’t skip the warm-up!#UpAndUnderSports pic.twitter.com/xVGCHaX9KW

— Up & Under Sports (@UpandUnderSport) September 17, 2026

A new academic year is the perfect time to get active!

Build your confidence, meet new friends, support your wellbeing or find a routine you enjoy.

🌟 New year. New opportunities. New reasons to get active.

Start this academic year strong!#UpAndUnderSport #NewAcademicYear pic.twitter.com/RULzHdgKVv

— Up & Under Sports (@UpandUnderSport) September 14, 2026

NEW MONTH, NEW GOAL! 💪

This month, Jade is getting herself football-season ready!

Her goal? Get fitter and build up her fitness by hitting the gym, getting out for runs and jumping on the bike.

Now it’s your turn… what’s your active goal this month? 👇#UpAndUnderSports pic.twitter.com/seTaUFml07

— Up & Under Sports (@UpandUnderSport) September 8, 2026

Ready for the new school year?

A new school year is a fresh start – new routines, new challenges, new friendships and plenty of opportunities!

Here are 4 simple things you can do to help you feel prepared:#UpAndUnderSports #BackToSchool #NewSchoolYear pic.twitter.com/amaaRzqJOU

— Up & Under Sports (@UpandUnderSport) September 4, 2026

AFTER-SCHOOL FUN STARTS HERE!

Looking for an after-school activity that gets kids active, confident and having fun? 🙌

Our after-school clubs are packed with sport, movement and plenty of fun!

👉 Book your child’s place today:https://t.co/eRC45PvS6c #UpAndUnderSports pic.twitter.com/A5SVUwIsQD

— Up & Under Sports (@UpandUnderSport) September 5, 2026

Day 2 at Larkhill – Multi Sport Course!

We enjoyed tagging games, Move the Mountain, gymnastics, Gaga Ball, kickball rounders, laser tag, and finished the day with an epic water fight to cool off!

Day 2 prize winners:
🏅 William
🏅 Josh
🏅 Sophia #UpAndUnderSports pic.twitter.com/8AEvBE0eNe

— Up & Under Sports (@UpandUnderSport) July 26, 2026

Day 2 at Hardenhuish – Multi Sport Course!

Activities included Sharks & Fishes 🦈, Move the Mountains 🏔️, athletics with javelin and hammer throwing 🏃, martial arts, netball 🏐, and Gaga Ball 🔵

Day 2 prize winners:
🏅 Maxwells
🏅 Henry
🏅 Phoebe
🏅 Elodie #UpAndUnderSports pic.twitter.com/vL0eKB1MaM

— Up & Under Sports (@UpandUnderSport) July 26, 2026

Day 1 at Larkhill – Multi Sport Course!

A full day of tagging games 🏃, dodgeball 🤾, football ⚽, laser tag 🔫, archery 🏹, and Gaga Ball 🔵.

Day 1 prize winners:
🏅 Sterling
🏅 Isabelle
🏅 Hattie #UpAndUnderSports #MultiSportCamp #Larkhill pic.twitter.com/NUx6XDJFMk

— Up & Under Sports (@UpandUnderSport) July 24, 2026

Day 1 at Hardenhuish – Multi Sport Course!

Kicking off with a fantastic mix of tag games 🏃, dodgeball 🤾, football ⚽, laser tag 🔫, archery 🏹, and Gaga Ball 🔵

Day 1 prize winners:
🏅 Harrison
🏅 Ava
🏅 Florence
🏅 Freddie #UpAndUnderSports #MultiSportCourse #Hardenhuish pic.twitter.com/czqzkRMcK0

— Up & Under Sports (@UpandUnderSport) July 24, 2026

Festival of Sport – Frome Cricket Club!

🏏 Cricketers enjoyed Net Games, the Swing Game, and The Hundred.

⚽ Multi Sports participants played Hockey, Dodgeball, Tagging Games, Archery, Laser Tag, and Football.

👏 Prize winners Kian and William! 🏆#UpAndUnderSports pic.twitter.com/wWkpjYG0oU

— Up & Under Sports (@UpandUnderSport) July 21, 2026

The Inflatable Obstacle Course at Lansdown Cricket Club!

⚠️ Please note: The Inflatable Obstacle Course is weather dependent and may need to be changed or rescheduled if conditions aren't suitable for safe use.

Secure your spot today!https://t.co/Vb1d67FQbS #UpAndUnderSports pic.twitter.com/5V25dZR8jw

— Up & Under Sports (@UpandUnderSport) July 9, 2026

The Inflatable Obstacle Course is BACK!

Get ready to bounce, climb, and conquer the course!

⚠️ Please note: This activity is weather dependent and may be changed or rescheduled if conditions are unsuitable for safe use.

Book now!
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— Up & Under Sports (@UpandUnderSport) July 8, 2026

☀️ Festival of Sport at Lansdown Cricket Club is back! 🏏

Combining cricket and multi-sports, giving children the chance to stay active, learn new skills, make friends and have loads of fun.

🎟️ Spaces are limited – book now!
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— Up & Under Sports (@UpandUnderSport) July 6, 2026

☀️ Summer Multi Sport Courses at Hardenhuish School are back!

Packed with fun, games and a huge variety of sports, it's the perfect way to keep your kids active and having fun this summer holiday.

🎟️ Spaces are limited, so book now!
👉 https://t.co/Vb1d67FQbS #UpAndUnderSports pic.twitter.com/0jrUd5MAbL

— Up & Under Sports (@UpandUnderSport) July 5, 2026

Summer Holiday Festival of Sport 2026

Join us at Frome Cricket Club this summer! Open to children aged 5–15.

📅 Multiple dates available
⏰ 9:00am–4:00pm

Book your place today 👇https://t.co/Vb1d67FQbS
#UpAndUnderSports pic.twitter.com/4BJP2qTHqI

— Up & Under Sports (@UpandUnderSport) June 30, 2026

Summer Holiday Multi Sports!

Join us at Larkhill Primary School on 23rd & 24th July 2026 for two fun-filled days of sports and activities for children aged 5–13.

🏃‍♀️ 8:45am–3:15pm
⚽ All abilities welcome

Book your place today 👇https://t.co/IBCouKZiNF #UpAndUnderSports pic.twitter.com/4oiDtZMdwL

— Up & Under Sports (@UpandUnderSport) June 30, 2026

✨ Throwback Thursday ✨

What a week it was!

We packed plenty of fun into our courses at Lansdown, Hardenhuish and Frome.

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us. We loved every minute and can't wait to do it all again in July! #ThrowbackThursday #UpAndUnderSports pic.twitter.com/YF9SjOCKMA

— Up & Under Sports (@UpandUnderSport) June 4, 2026

The Impact Project

The Impact Project seeks to build individual self confidence within each child to help them to feel comfortable within themselves. The project looks to reduce self doubt and encourage celebrating uniqueness so that each child feels able to fearlessly follow their own pathway.

Sports Challenge Trail

All the challenges can be found on our YouTube channel and offer clear and progressive activities to suit a multitude of ages and abilities and can be completed at home and with minimal sports equipment.

Bristol Concordes

“Bristol Concordes is about more than just basketball” find out how our Basket Ball team has gone from strength to strength since it’s initial conception almost 2 years ago

Pupils highlight the benefits of PE

At Up & Under Sports we use language like, healthy, exercise, fitness, sportspersonship and respect during all of our sessions and are happy we can see these values being instilled in our pupils through their positive attitudes, language and respect they show for us and each other.

After School Clubs

Up & Under Sports works closely with our schools to provide both breakfast and lunchtime clubs find out more…

Creating Cohesion to Foster Development

The working life of a sports coach (as highlighted in our recent video ‘Day in the Life of Coach Stuart), can be exceptionally busy. However, due to the nature of the job, it is very rare that our coaches get the opportunity to sit down and catch up face to face with the other Up […]

Why collate pupil PE data?

If your school would like some guidance on how to track the physical progress of your young people and help to plan for future successes, please get in touch. Kite mark criteria planning, data collection, consultations, curriculum mapping and support are all available from Up & Under Sports.

Term 2 Newsletter – Dec 2019

Exploring Values on the Pitch

At Up & Under Sports, we recognise that sport is more than just physical skills. Through the vehicle of sport we aim to integrate our company values of leadership, resilience, sportspersonship, respect, determination, passion and teamwork in to all of our lessons and clubs. Therefore, we wanted to create an effective resource to maximise participation […]

New to Up & Under Sports – Assessment Cards

We are very excited to introduce our first assessment strategy in to our schools and are looking forward to seeing the impact that they have on helping teachers to gain an improved understanding of their children in each sport they teach.

A Day in the Life of Coach Stuart

Find out more about how our coach Stuart spends a typical day working for Up & Under Sports

Me, U&US

We are very excited to announce our plans to create a new nurture programme to further enhance the current pupil mentoring offer that we deliver in to schools across the South West.

Term 1 Newsletter 2019/2020

Term 6 Newsletter

We reflect on a fantastic year of coaching and wish all of our customers and colleagues a fun filled, happy Summer!

Fantastic Sunny Sports Day at Bathampton Primary School

Read about our fantastic day at Bathampton Sports Day

A Fantastic First Year of Healthy Heroes

Here we reflect on the first year of our Healthy Heroes programme and the positive impact it has had on the children we have taught.

Daniel Edozie, Bristol Flyers star to join Saltford Holiday Club!

Daniel Edozie will be hosting a basketball masterclass at day one of our Saltford Summer Holiday club.

Primary Physical Education Specialist / Sports Coach – SEPTEMBER 2019

Vacancy: Primary Physical Education Specialist / Sports Coach – SEPTEMBER 2019

Team Building Day

As we are nearing the end of another school year, the team at Up & Under Sports took the time to spend a day with the brilliant charity, Empire Fighting Chance for a team building day. Empire Fighting Chance is an amazing charity set up in 2006 to help young people experiencing significant challenges in […]

Term 4 Newsletter, April 2019

Term 3 Newsletter, February 2019

Term 2 Team Challenge

Our term 2 challenge is now complete! The challenges saw coaches showing off their skills and learning new ones in order to win points for their team, read more and find out which team won…..

The importance of PE and sport in a nursery & pre-school setting

The benefits of Physical Education for young children is well documented; read how our coach, Barry Smith, is leading the way bringing PE sessions to young children helping them get active, have fun & learn important development skills

Curriculum Manager Explained

Clare tells us about her role & how schools can expect to see improvements by working with Up & Under Sports to make best use of the sports premium

Using an historical event to hightlight the importance of Sportspersonship

This term I was given sportspersonship to focus on in my sessions. As it was around Remembrance Day and coming up to Christmas, I thought it’d be a good idea to try and link what happened in WW1 on Christmas Day into a 1 off session with year 4’s at Queens Crescent school. Christmas Day […]

Term 2 Team Challenge

This term we are continuing with our Healthy Heroes team challenges and have decided to inspire our coaches to learn something new. As part of the 5 stages of well-being, continuing to learn throughout life is an element that is identified as being beneficial for self-development and to enhance self-esteem. The challenge is as followings, […]

Term 2 Newsletter, December 2018

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Strong links with Beechen Cliff continue to grow….

Its been a busy couple of terms for Geraint Lewis (Director) and his involvement with various teams at Beechen Cliff School, Bath. This is the 6th year that Geraint has been involved in developing rugby at the school and on the pitch this has been one of the best yet! Geraint is involved with a […]

Showing respect in different scenarios

For this term the value I have been incorporating into my sessions is respect, this value fits in perfectly with the martial arts inspired sessions that I have been running. Respect is a huge part of martial arts, so in our sessions we have had activities which required the children to not only show their […]

Leadership in action

This term in lessons I have been focusing on the core value of Leadership. Leadership is ‘the action of leading a group of people or an organisation, or the ability to do this’. This action can be extremely important in everyday life, from being a director of a company, to a head teacher of a […]

Sportspersonship, as demonstrated by the professionals

This term I have been focussing on our value Sportspersonship which links perfectly to my value last term, Passion. Last term I focused on pupils controlling their passion in victory, but also using passion in defeat to persevere. This value gave me the opportunity to show a year 5/6 class one of my favourite clips […]

The Impact Project

Sports Challenge Trail

Bristol Concordes

﻿Pupils highlight the benefits of PE

After School Clubs

Creating Cohesion to Foster Development

Why collate pupil PE data?

Term 2 Newsletter – Dec 2019

Exploring Values on the Pitch

New to Up & Under Sports – Assessment Cards

A Day in the Life of Coach Stuart

Me, U&US

Term 1 Newsletter 2019/2020

Term 6 Newsletter

Fantastic Sunny Sports Day at Bathampton Primary School

A Fantastic First Year of Healthy Heroes

Daniel Edozie, Bristol Flyers star to join Saltford Holiday Club!

Primary Physical Education Specialist / Sports Coach – SEPTEMBER 2019

Team Building Day

Term 4 Newsletter, April 2019

Term 3 Newsletter, February 2019

Term 2 Team Challenge

The importance of PE and sport in a nursery & pre-school setting

Curriculum Manager Explained

Using an historical event to hightlight the importance of Sportspersonship

Term 2 Team Challenge

Term 2 Newsletter, December 2018

Strong links with Beechen Cliff continue to grow….

Showing respect in different scenarios

Leadership in action

Sportspersonship, as demonstrated by the professionals

Upcoming Clubs

St John’s Catholic Primary School – Year 3/4/5/6 Dodgeball Club (Thursdays) Term 1 & 2 2026

St Mary’s Catholic Primary School – Year 3, 4, 5 & 6 Netball Club (Mondays) Term 1

Combe Down Primary School – Years 1/2/3/4/5/6 Multi Sports Club (Mondays) Term 1 2026

Kington St Michael Primary School (Sparrows & Eagles) – Football Club (Tuesdays) Term 1 & 2 2026

St Mary’s Catholic Primary Sch – Year 3, 4, 5 & 6 Football Club (Tuesdays) Term 1 2026

St John’s Catholic Primary School – Year 3/4/5/6 Netball Club (Tuesdays) Term 1 & 2 2026

Ivy Lane Primary School – KS2 Cricket Club (Tuesdays) Term 1 2026

ByBrook Valley Primary School – KS2 Hockey Club (Wednesdays) Term 1 & 2 2026

Ivy Lane Primary School – KS2 Basketball Club (Wednesdays) Term 1 2026

Colerne Primary School – Year 1/2/3 Multi Sports Club (Thursdays) Term 1 & 2

St Mary’s Catholic Primary Sch – Year 1 & 2 Gymnastics Club (Thursdays) Term 1 2026

Fynamore Primary School – Year 3/4/5/6 Football Club (Fridays) Term 1 2026

Combe Down Primary – KS2 Cricket Club (Friday mornings) Term 1 2026

Combe Down Primary – Years 1/2/3/4/5/6 Invasion games (Friday after school club) Term 1 2026

Kington St Michael Primary School (Sparrows, Eagles, Kingfishers & Hawks) – Cricket Sports Club (Wednesdays) Term 1 & 2 2026

October Holiday 2026 – Hardenhuish School – Multi Sports Course Thursday 22nd October & Friday 23rd October 2026

October Holiday 2026 – Hardenhuish School – Multi Sports Course Mon 26th Oct- Thursday 29th October (4 day)

October Holiday 2026 – St John’s Catholic Primary Sch – Multi Sports Course Monday 26th- Thursday 29th Oct ( 4 days)

Fynamore Primary School – Year 3/4/5/6 Football Club (Fridays) Term 2 2026

Feb Holiday 2027 – Hardenhuish School – Multi Sports Course Mon 15th Feb- Thursday 18th February (4 day)

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Pupils highlight the benefits of PE