Physical
Education 
Physical education
is an important part of the school curriculum
as it offers many opportunities for child development
from personal to social to physical. With this
in mind we aim to offer a range of activities
which we hopefully appeal to most children at
some point!
The regular curriculum offers games, gymnastics
and dance and this is taught over two lessons
on a weekly basis. Alongside this, each year group
is offered a 10 week swimming unit which is very
important as we feel that there are many children
in our school who are not taken swimming out of
school, thus have very little confidence in water
and are weak or non swimmers. If this is the case
at the end of year 6, we have a top up swimming
course which is a two week intensive daily swimming
course which hopefully gets the children to the
25 metre target. For the stronger swimmers we
will be selecting for a swimming gala for later
on this year.
As P.E has been recently identified by the government
as a key area, due to opportunities to encourage
healthy lifestyles, we receive further support
from outside agencies such as sportlinx and school
sports coordinators. Through this we get support
in lessons, specialist teaching in a given sport
and sport festivals organised within our cluster
of local schools……therefore everyone
benefits!!!
Alongside the curriculum lessons we also have
opportunities in year 6 to attend Kingswood, an
outdoor adventure centre, where children take
part in outdoor activities such as climbing, abseiling
etc Finally we also invite outside clubs, such
as fencing and judo, to come in to school to provide
even further opportunities. Unfortunately there
is a cost of £25 for 6 sessions but the
children really enjoy these experiences.
Also our extra curricular clubs give further opportunities
to develop skills, knowledge and tactics and these
are available from year 2 to year 6. This will
also give children the opportunities to compete
in inter school competitions.
If we identify any children with particular talents
in any sport we will encourage them to join a
club outside of school where they will be able
to be challenged to reach their potential.
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