Now in its sixth year, the EMAT Olympics are back, supported by GB Olympians, with another fantastic programme of star-studded events across the East Midlands Academy Trust schools.

We launched this year's Olympics with a new event, the EMAT Cup football tournament. The event took place in April at Wollaston School and saw teams from Northampton International Academy, Prince William School and Wollaston School compete for the trophy.

Our biggest ever EMAT Torch Relay was next, starting on June 8th and bringing a host of Olympic stars to EMAT schools to lead the pupils in their fun run or walk. The special guests were Commonwealth Games gold medallist judoka Nekoda Smythe-Davis, Leon Greenwood, who competed for Team GB at this year's Winter Olympics in the bobsleigh competition, Paralympic archer Tania Nadarajah, hockey player Grace Balsdon, who scored the winning goal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games to secure the bronze medal for Team GB, and Paralympic gold medallist Laura Sugar MBE, who has competed in athletics, canoeing and hockey.

We also welcomed more schools than ever before to our annual Ability Games, this year at Hardingstone Academy on June 17th and bringing together 10 schools in a fantastic day of sport for pupils with additional needs. The children were joined by Great Britain and Loughborough Lightning Paralympic basketball player Siobhan Fitzpatrick, who will be getting involved by supporting pupils in their basketball activity.

The main event, the EMAT Olympic Day, took place on October 7th at Arena Sports Kettering where around 500 pupils from 10 schools came together for a truly unforgettable day of sport. They were joined by Olympic silver medallist Jamie Baulch who shared his sporting career highlights with them, and the whole event was broadcast live on the EMAT YouTube channel. Our host for the day was Sky Sports presenter Dave Fulton, supported by our team of Year 11 student reporters. Scroll back to the top of the page to see the highlights!