Competitions

ECP’s best sportsmen and women have the opportunity to represent the school in competitions with other Czech and international schools.

International Schools Sport Association Prague (ISSAP)

These tournaments are organised by various international schools in Prague. ECP enters competitive teams across three core sports: football, basketball, and volleyball and eventually in Badminton, crosscountry running or swimming.

International Partnership: Akademia High School (Warsaw)

ECP enjoys close sporting cooperation with Akademia High School in Warsaw. This bilateral partnership involves international tournaments where our athletes either travel to Poland to compete or play host to the Warsaw teams here in Prague.

Track and Long-Distance Running

Our long-distance runners represent the school on a major local stage by participating in the annual Junior Marathon Relay in Prague, competing against high schools from all over the region.

Sport Climbing

Our athletes also branch out into unique regional competitions, such as participating in the School Boulder Cup 2026, which sees our climbers competing at the Jungle Sport Park in Letňany, Prague.

The Cultural Olympiad is our most prominent cultural event in the school year; students from across the school represent their House by competing in a variety of creative categories (Dance, Drma, Music, Film, Art 7 Photography)Every school year students can use their specific artistic and creative talent, and helping their House to participate in the Cultural Olympiad. Cultural Captains, supported by their Senior Tutors, lead their teams and act as ambassadors and role models for creative participation. The event attracts around 1500 performers, as well as over 100 entries for the Visual Arts categories.  The Arts Faculty organise the event, which is an afternoon extravaganza of entertainment, competition, and community spirit, with external judges invited to attend and rank each of our categories. The Cultural Olympiad takes place in Prague’s larger theatres, and this year the event is planned for the iconic Divadlo na Fidlovačce.

The winning House receives the Cultural Olympiad Cup and important points towards the whole-year House competition.

Performance Categories: Dance, Music, Drama, and Film

Visual Categories: Art and Photography (Winners are Photographer of the year and Artist of the Year).

2026 Cultural Olympiad video

Our Interhouse Sports program creates competitive environments that teach students the value of participation in competitive sports. We aim to ensure that students engage with events that are as professional as possible; to achieve this, we hire professional referees and judges for our athletics and sports events.

“As Director of Sports, my vision is to ensure students have contact with events that are as professional as possible; therefore, we hire professional referees or judges for our athletics events.”

Sports Captains

Sports Captains play a pivotal role in the success of our tournaments. They are selected by the Head of Houses and they change every year. They are responsible for creating, organizing, and leading their House teams. Beyond logistics, they foster a sense of enthusiasm and House spirit, encouraging determination and joy among all participants.

Competition Schedule

1. October: Football, Floorball, and Volleyball.
2. Second Event: Basketball, Bouldering, and Badminton.
3. Sports Day: Athletics events and team sports.

There are three full days across the school year designated for these events during the school day. These provide a wonderful opportunity for students and teachers to come together, support their House teams, and enjoy a great atmosphere filled with determination.

Outside School Academic Competitions

Some students have particular talents and it is very important to support them in developing those talents. This is why we encourage our students to take part in many external school academic competitions. We are very proud that ECP students have twice won the Václav Havel Library Essay Competition and the International Literary Competitions.  We have also had very good results in various subject Olympiads. Regularly our students  take part in the Czech Olympiad. Our students are also regularly successful in the UKMT Maths Challenges, and several have achieved high enough scores to take part in the invitation-only Kangaroo challenges.

Information about these competitions is available in the Student Bulletin, with all relevant links, and posters publicising them can be found on the :more notice board.

Competitions ECP students have taken part in:

COBIS Poetry Competition

Czech Language Olympiad

Václav Havel Library Essay Competition

Linguistics Olympiad

Economics Olympiad

Student Investor Challenge

Logic Olympiad

British Biology Olympiad

Regent’s University (London) Fashion Competition 

Online festival Shake Me Up Shakespeare

UKMT Maths Challenge

University of Waterloo Senior and Intermediate Mathematics Contests 

Global Young Journalist Award 

The Day Student Voices Young Journalist Award

International Recitation Competition

Junior Marathon

At ECP we are keen to develop a true love for reading in our students.  To support this, the top readers each term receive a celebratory certificate and gift token.  In addition, students are encouraged to participate in the ECP Reading Award. The ECP Reading Award is a prestigious prize that encourages students to read a diverse range of books including classics, poetry, contemporary and history fiction as well as non-fiction focused on topics such as philosophy, science or psychology.  To achieve the Bronze Award students need to complete 8 tasks ranging from shadowing a book award, attending a book group or exploring a controversial issue of modern life that has global consequences.  The Silver award requires students to complete 12 reading tasks and the Gold 16 Tasks. Winners of the Gold Award are presented each year on Founders’ Day.