As part of The Daily Telegraph and Aviva School Sport Matters campaign, highlighting the achievements of sport in the school environment, we will recognise and honour the best schools, teachers, teams and individuals in the country at the 5th Annual Aviva Daily Telegraph School Sport Matters National Awards during October 2009.

For a fifth year, the Telegraph, with Aviva as commercial sponsors, continues School Sport Matters, a campaign which highlights exemplary practice in PE and the delivery of sport in schools, generating debate and celebrating the achievements of pupils, teachers and schools across the country.

Despite a decline in competitive school sport over the past 20 years, the sale of school playing fields and rising rates of child obesity, teachers, parents and volunteers still deliver sport and physical education with unbridled enthusiasm.

The School Sport Matters campaign culminates annually with a prestigious national awards ceremony, in October.

This year they will be held at Chelsea Football Club, in October.

The entries we hear about from your school will be entered into 10 categories in the School Sport Matters Awards 2009 and will go before our judging panel, which includes Dame Kelly Holmes, Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson, James Cracknell, Darren Campbell, Brian Moore and a host of other sporting luminaries.

We want to hear about the success of sport in your school and who contributes to it, whether it's a winning team performance, the achievements of a single student or the tireless efforts of a teacher who organises everything from training to fixtures to ordering kit and driving pupils to competitions.

Categories:

*   State School of the Year,

*   Independent School of the Year,

*   Specialist Sports College of the Year,

*   Student of the Year (male),

*   Student of the Year (female),

*   School Sport Teacher of the Year,

*   School Team of the Year,

*   Excellence in Disabled Sport,

*   Contribution to School Sport,

*   Aviva Unsung Hero

The top three entries per category which are short-listed will be invited to the awards ceremony. We strongly believe that school sport should be an integral part of school life. Let us know about the sporting life at your school, however large, or small, the contribution. It all counts.

Closing date for entry is early September. Please see a link to the form below. It takes five minutes to apply online:

www.telegraph.co.uk/schoolsportmatters

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/4839785/The-Daily-Telegraph-and-Aviva-School-Sport-Matters-campaign.html