QuadKids year 5 & 6 Boys & Girls
Eligibility;
 The competition is a Team event.
 Teams of 8 pupils; 4 Boys + 4 Girls. (1 reserve permitted in each gender in
case of injury)
 Year 5 and/or Year 6 pupils.
Facility;
 Athletics track
 Separate throwing area if running in conjunction with running stations.
Equipment:
 Vortex Javelin Howlers x 3
 Starting, timing, measuring equipment.
Format:
 Each pupil will take part in four events.
1. Vortex Howler Throw
2. 600m Sprint
3. Standing Long Jump
4. 75m sprint
 Each athlete is placed in a pool and rotates across the four activities.
 Pupils are scored against “standards” on each event.
 Boys and girls scores are combined to give an overall team score.
 At the end of the quad kids meet an overall team winner.
 A local decision can be made to award an individual boy and girl to be
declared based on overall highest points total over the four events.
Pathway
 It is expected that 4 teams will progress from each Borough to the North
London Final.
Other Information - Rules
 Each athlete competes in all 4 events.
 Time or distance for each event is measured against a standard point scoring
table and the better the performance the higher the points scored.
 The points from each event are added together to give the aggregate points
or Quadkids score for that athletes.
 If an athlete misses an event or in the case of a race does not finish they
score zero points.
 If an athlete completes an event but records a time or distance below the
lower end of the points scale, they receive the minimum 10 point score for
that event.
 If an athlete records a time or distance above the upper end of the points
scale, they will be given the maximum 100 points.
 For an individual competition where two athletes are tied on equal points and
a winner is required the athlete with the highest points score in their weakest
event will be the winner.