• 9.30 – 10.15am – Opening Ceremony, with School Games Ambassador Sam Ruddock (2012 Paralympic Sprinter), Sporting Champion Tom Reed (GB Judo) and a performance from Talent Competition winners 'Fly Dance'.
• 10.30am – 2.30pm – Competitions take place.
• 2.45 – 3.30pm – Closing Ceremony and Presentation of trophies & medals, with School Games Ambassadors Sam Ruddock (2012 Paralympic Sprinter), and Matt Hampson (Ex-Leicester Tigers & England U21's Rugby).
• 10 School Sport & Physical Activity Networks Representative Squads
• This year's games involve competition in 9 sports across 17 competitions.
• Sports: Boccia, Inclusive Zone Basketball, Indoor Rowing, Netball, Sitting Volleyball, Swimming, Trampolining, Dodgeball and Volleyball.

Over 1,000 of our most talented young athletes and disabled athletes from across Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland are going for Gold at Leicester-Shire & Rutland's biggest and most prestigious school sport event.

These secondary aged aspiring athletes, representing 57 schools, have qualified to compete in the Spring Championships, taking place on Thursday 3^rd April at Loughborough University. The action-packed event, full of Olympic-style sport and presentations, aims to build on the legacy of the London 2012 Games, which will be supported by over 120 young leaders and volunteers.

The young athletes will be representing our 10 School Sport & Physical Activity Networks (SSPANs), in 9 sports across 17 competitions, all of which will have qualified from Level 2 area finals, to participate in this Level 3 County Final Championships.

The Championships will be officially opened by the Leicester-Shire & Rutland School Games Ambassadors Sam Ruddock (2012 Paralympic Sprinter). The Opening Ceremony will see Sporting Champion Tom Reed (GB Judo) take on our GO GOLD Ambassador Isaac Gagin in a Judo demonstration, and a performance from Fly Dance, the winner of the recent 'Leicester-Shire & Rutland's GOT Talent' Competition.

As the National Award winners for the management and delivery of an exceptionally high quality 2012/13 Sainsbury's School Games Programme, the Leicester-Shire & Rutland School Games Local Organising Committee (LOC) won the right to run a competition to design the National Sainsbury's School Games Mascot!

Ellen Blaine, from Leicester Grammar School, won the competition with her design of 'SEDRIC the Lion'. The Championships will be SEDRIC's first public appearance before he sets off on a tour of School Games Championships across the Country! SEDRIC will be also be joined by our Leicester-Shire & Rutland Mascot Dazzle!

The Games will culminate in a 'Closing Ceremony' in which Sam Ruddock will be joined by another of our School Games Ambassadors, Matt Hampson (Ex-Leicester Tigers & England U21's Rugby), to present trophies and Gold Medals to the winners, Silver and Bronze Medals to 2^nd and 3^rd place and trophies to the 'Spirit of the Games' winners, from each competition.

Parents and spectators are encouraged and welcome to attend the Games, including the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, to support their children in what will be the largest sporting occasion in the region.

The Leicester-Shire & Rutland School Games is part of the national 'Sainsbury's School Games' programme of competitive sport that is open to all young people in every school from across Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland. It is a celebration of competitive sport that involves young people aged 5-18 years, of all abilities and backgrounds.

The latest results and pictures from the Spring Championships will be updated throughout the day live on our Twitter @LR_Sport, using the #LRSchoolGames.

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