What are the Achieve Well Challenges?
The Achieve Well Challenges are a Nottingham citywide initiative designed to increase daily physical activity in schools. They focus on inclusivity, whole-school participation, and making movement part of everyday routines.
Sign Up!
Sign your school up on the challenge app, create your team, and start taking part in challenges by logging active minutes at achievewellchallenges.co.uk
Current and Upcoming Challenges
The Sheriff’s Challenge 2026/27
How many active minutes can your log this school year!
From 21 September 2026 to 8th July 2027, the Sheriff’s Challenge returns to schools across Nottingham, inviting pupils to see how many active minutes can be logged across the school year. Put health and wellbeing at the heart of school life, champion daily physical activity and healthy lifestyles, and inspire children to build confidence, resilience, and positive habits that last.
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Mini Challenges
Get your school moving with our themed mini challenges. Keep pupils moving when they need it most with our themed mini challenges. These fun, inclusive activities help maintain motivation throughout the year, supporting physical and mental wellbeing, teamwork and wider curriculum learning.
Schools can choose any challenge without joining the Sheriff’s Challenge. If you already take part in the Sheriff’s Challenge, you can join in too, with all mini challenge minutes automatically added to your total.
Here’s what’s coming up this school year
Black History Month Challenge: 1 October to 16 October 2026
Can your school complete all five sports and build as many active minutes as possible? 
Discover five sports inspired by five Black sporting role models, encouraging pupils
to get active, try different ways of moving and celebrate their achievements.
Race for the Pole Challenge: 2 November to 11 December 2026
Can your school reach the North Pole by completing 81,490 active minutes?
Take your school on a virtual international journey, building active minutes as you travel through
different countries. Explore places and connect with British and overseas organisations along
the way.
Move for Good Challenge: 12 February 2027
How many active minutes can your school achieve while supporting a cause that matters
to your community?
Bring your school together through movement to raise awareness, fundraise or
show support for a cause of your choice. Help pupils experience how being
active can make a positive difference to others.
International Women’s Day Challenge: 8 March to 12 March 2027
Can each pupil complete 260 active minutes across the week?
Inspired by Kathrine Switzer’s first Boston Marathon time of 4 hours 20 minutes, this
challenge uses movement to explore equality, inclusion, perseverance and breaking
barriers.
Robin Walks Notts: 4 May to 28 May 2027
Can your school walk, wheel or move the length of the Robin Hood Trail this May?
Each journey across Nottinghamshire represents 825 active minutes per pupil, based on
distance of 55 km. Celebrate active travel, everyday movement and the connection between
physical activity and wellbeing.
Women’s World Cup Challenge: Get Them to Brazil: 7 June to 24 June 2027
How many times can your school reach Brazil before the Women’s World Cup begins? 
Work together to build active minutes and complete a virtual journey from Nottingham
to Rio. Each journey represents 140,025 active minutes, based on a distance of
9,335 km, helping your school celebrate and support women’s football.
"This was a great challenge which encouraged children to be active and start building healthy habits. Pupils also enjoyed the competitive element of the challenge, and this motivated them to be more active throughout the day." - Southglade Primary School
Challenge Padlets
Access the challenge resources, guidance and materials all in one place.
Achieve Well Challenge Padlet
Support Videos
These short videos explain each challenge clearly, making them easy to understand, simple to share with staff, and quick to use in schools.
How To Guides
How to sign up to the Achieve Well Challenges
How to navigate the Achieve Well Challenges
How to view all activity as admin
Frequently Asked Questions
The Achieve Well Challenges are based on the minute logging online app which helps schools track, recognise and celebrate the active minutes pupils are building into everyday school life, easily supporting whole-school health and wellbeing. It gives schools a simple way to record active minutes across the school day, including brain breaks, the Daily Mile, PE, clubs, dance and other staff-led physical activities.
Scoring is based on the average active minutes per pupil divided by the total number of pupil in school, helping to ensure every school is recognised fairly regardless of size. In the future, schools will be able take part in mini challenges linked to local organisations, awareness themes and PSHE, with all logged activity contributing to their school’s overall progress.
Complete this form to express your interest in getting involved.
Schools nominate a lead contact such as a PE, PSHE, or PD lead to be the named coordinator. They upload numbers of children in each class, year group, or tutor group into the app. Once set up, staff within the school can begin logging active minutes through the Achieve Well app.
Staff record minutes directly in the Achieve Well web app. It takes under 20 seconds to log a session. Schools can log by class, year group, tutor group, or whole school depending on what works best.
This is flexible, depending on the needs of your school. Any staff member can log activity. For example, classroom teachers might log active lessons or brain breaks; Playground supervisors could log breaktime activity; PE staff may log lessons and clubs. Alternatively all logging could be coordinated by the nominated lead.
Minutes should be logged as regularly as possible to keep totals accurate and visible for pupils. Many schools choose to log daily, but weekly entries can also work.
You will find a range of resources on our website and challenge padlets to support you.
Schools receive recognition for their achievements, including certificates and citywide celebration opportunities. Feedback is collected to refine future challenges, ensuring the process remains simple and supportive.
Only supervised, adult-led activities can be logged. This includes PE lessons, Daily Mile, active lessons, brain breaks, playground-led activities, after-school clubs, lunchtime clubs, dance, and sports. Unsupervised play does not count, but all supervised movement does.
Schools log the total number of supervised active minutes. This total is divided by the number of pupils in the school to give an average minutes per pupil score. This ensures fairness between large and small schools and rewards schools that engage more of their pupils.
Robin Hood Walks Challenge Feedback
"It has been a pleasure being part of this challenge and enabling children to discover the benefits of being active every day. Alongside this, we completed the walk to school week to encourage more children to take more steps when they are coming to and from school. The children were excited to complete both challenges and have spoken positively about the impact of this on their physical and mental health." - Berridge Primary School
