Quadkids is an exciting athletics initiative which gives more children the opportunity to participate in and enjoy the benefit of athletics.It also helps to identify those youngsters who have the potential to be the stars of tomorrow.Quadkids is designed to be inclusive, competitive, quick, fun and simple to run.Quadkids can operate in both schools and clubs, giving more children the opportunity to experience the core athletics’ disciplines of running, jumping and throwing.Quadkids is a team based quadrathon competition where each athlete does a sprint, a middle distance run, a long jump and a throw.It is primary targeted at young athletes from the age of 7-13.
England Athletics has selected QuadKids to be part of a national framework for athletics competition in England.From 2009 QuadKids will be working with England Athletics and the various governing bodies to deliver Athletics based competitions in schools and clubs.
QuadKids is targeted at three main age groups:
QuadKids Start (U10 - Years 3 & 4)
QuadKids Start is designed to be a fun introduction into team athletics. Each athlete does a 50m sprint, a 400m jog, a mini-vortex throw, and a standing long jump. There is also an optional 8 x 50m shuttle relay. The time/distances for each event are scored against a standard points table, giving each athlete a cumulative points score across the 4/5 events. There can be up to 5 boys and 5 girls in a team, with the top 4 boys & top 4 girls contributing to the team score. QuadKids Start can be used as the format for inter-school cluster festivals, but also works within an intra-school context. QuadKids Start is intented to be inclusive & open to all children who wish to have a go. Primary schools are thus encouraged to enter multiple teams into Cluster festivals if athlete interest is high
QuadKids Primary (u12 - Years 5 & 6)
QuadKids Primary is the core of the QuadKids concept. Each athlete does a 75m sprint, a 600m run, a Vortex Howler throw, and a standing Long Jump. There is also an optional 8 x 50m relay. The time/distances for each event are scored against a standard points table, giving each athlete a cumulative points score across the 4/5 events. There can be up to 5 boys and 5 girls in team, with the top 4 boys & top 4 girls contributing to the team score.
There are 4 levels of QuadKids primary competition:
·Intra-school
·SSCO Cluster events
·Partnership finals
·County finals
Competition would normally be run on a combined year group basis, i.e. mixed teams of years 5 & 6, but in some circumstances it makes sense to run a separate competition for the two year groups. This would normally be the case with a cluster of large primary schools.
QuadKids Primary is intented to be inclusive & open to all children who wish to have a go. Primary schools are thus encouraged to enter multiple teams into Cluster events if athlete interest is high.
QuadKids Secondary (U14 - Years 7 & 8)
For secondary aged athletes, the 4 events become; 100m, 800m, Vortex Howler throw, Running Long Jump, and optional 4 x 100m relay. The time/distances for each event are scored against a standard points table, giving each athlete a cumulative points score across the 4/5 events. There can be up to 5 boys and 5 girls in team, with the top 4 boys & top 4 girls contributing to the team score. Schools are also encouraged to enter multiple teams into Partnership cluster events, and to make QuadKids Secondary as inclusive as possible, but it is undertstood that at these ages there is a selection element in pulling teams together.
A QuadKids Secondary event would normally comprise of separate competitions for year 7 and year 8 teams, but in some circumstances (eg smaller schools/ lower participation rates) it would make sense to combine year groups into one team
There are 4 levels of QuadKids Secondary competition :
