Students at Slough's Long Close School can boast that they spent their time in lockdown competing alongside 10,000 other pupils in an international sporting event.

Long Close in Upton Court Road is part of the Cognita chain of schools started by former inspector of schools for England Chris Woodhead.

The Slough pupils teamed with other Cognita schools across Europe to take on children from Cognita schools in Asia and Latin America in a unique mini-Olympics

There were 78 schools involved with all the pupils undertaking frog jumps, sock rolls, press ups and dribbling challenges in the safety of their own homes.

In Slough pupils sent in details of their achievements to Long Close's director of sport Ian Powell so they could be collated with the results from all the other European schools.

'Virtual' gold, silver and bronze medals given out as Team Europe ended up beating Team Asia and Team Latam in the Cognita home games challenge - both as top scorers and highest participation region.

Headteacher Kam Nijar said: "It has been wonderful to see so many of our students, families and teachers getting involved in this global event – we’re so proud of you all. We would like to say a big thank you to Mr Powell for organising our school’s involvement and to all our Long Close community for entering into the Cognita Home Games spirit."