Felpham Community College are celebrating after winning Youth in Action's school of the month award for May.

The West Sussex educational centre had a month packed with sporting successes.

The school's two sixth form football teams reached the final of their respective County Cup competitions before losing 2-1 to BHASVIC in both matches.

The Year 11 football team won the County Cup for the first time in the school's history and reached the last 64 of the FA Schools National Cup.

PE teacher Bryn Hauxwell, 29, is delighted with the progress.

Hauxwell, who plays for County League Arundel, has passed on tips from his Sports Science degree at the Chichester Institute to his pupils.

He said: "I studied the psychology of sport about how to get the best results and I have introduced some stress management techniques. It has helped the footballers with their penalties. It seems to have worked too. Both the sixth form sides won their County Cup semi-finals on spot-kicks."

The Year Ten girls who retained their district champions netball tag for the second year.

Individually it was a good month for the school too. David Royce,13, has won a place at Albion's school of excellence and Mark Cooper, 15, and James Nicholls, 14, have joined Portsmouth's youth set-up. Daniel Hollands has been offered a contract by premier side Chelsea.

Emily Emmett and Anna Playford, both 15, were members of the winning relay team at the Sussex Youth Games. Luke Nash, 15, excelled in the javelin.

Ellie Thorne, 13, has clinched a place in the West Sussex cricket team. Sophie Trotter was a finalist in the 50m breastroke in the Southern Counties final.

In golf, Oliver Turnill is the South of England under-15 champion and Alex Burch, 13, was a finalist in the Sussex under-14s schools fencing finals.

Daniel Aldridge, 15, who achieved an in-line skating world record last year at Alton Towers, has been named as a member of the European Extreme Display team due to perform in front of Microsoft's Bill Gates in Barcelona on Thursday.