OXON: More than 1,500 schoolchildren will descend on Abingdon today(APRIL16) and tomorrow for a festival of sports.

More than 1,500 young athletes will compete in football, netball, swimming and hockey in the 2015 Oxfordshire Sainsbury’s School Games Spring Festival.

The games will be held at The Manor Prep School, Tilsley Park, White Horse Leisure and Tennis Centre and St Helen and St Katharine School.

The winning school for each competition will be crowned 2015 Oxfordshire Schools Champions.

Pete Waterfield, diving silver medallist at the 2004 Olympic Games, will be at White Horse Leisure & Tennis Centre today to support the athletes.