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At Old Cleeve First School, we ensure a high-quality, consistent and progressive teaching of PE, as well as increased opportunities for physical activity within the school day. Our aim is to ensure that our PE offer provides pupils with a balanced and diverse curriculum that covers a wide variety of physical activity from Invasion Games, Net and Wall Games, Target Games, Athletics, Dance, Gymnastics, Striking and Fielding, Swimming and Health and Fitness. By ensuring that we provide a variety of opportunities for physical activity, it allows our pupils to experience a range of different sports and skills that can be utilised across a range of activities.
We have an engaging extra-curricular offer, which includes a range of physical activity opportunities throughout the school day. We provide a range of competitive opportunities both at a Intra and Inter School level that allows pupils to develop their teamwork, leadership and social skills, whilst understanding the importance of how to compete in the right way. These competitive activities include; Inter School Cross Country, Catchball and Gymnastics, Intra School House Mini Marathon, Rounders and Football.
Additionally, we also have regular visits from Paralympian and Championship athletes such as Jack Rutter, Will Bjergfelt and Daniel Hill. They have encouraged the pupils to raise money for their own sports equipment by making them take part in their own circuits activity, where pupils were sponsored to complete the activity.
As part of our PSHE and Happy Minds curriculum, pupils learn about the importance of physical and mental health, as well as nutrition and sleep. As a school, we believe that this understanding combined with regular, purposeful physical activity will enable our pupils to become healthy and confident individuals, who will make sensible lifestyle choices and continue to engage in physical activity.
Government PE and Sports Funding
The government has provided additional funding to improve provision of physical education (PE) and sport in primary schools. This funding - provided jointly by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport is ring-fenced and therefore can only be spent on provision of PE and sport in schools.
Sports Grant 2021-22
This year, Old Cleeve First School has been allocated a Sports Grant. This funding has to be spent effectively and to improve the quality and breadth of PE and sport provision, including increasing participation in PE and sport so that all pupils develop healthy lifestyles and reach the performance levels they are capable of. We plan to use this funding:
To increase the engagement of pupils in active play and physical activity.
To raise the profile of PE/Sports across the school community in order to encourage more pupils to make more active lifestyle choices.
Through effective CPD by professional coaches, develop teachers’ confidence and skills for delivering high quality PE lessons.
To provide a wide range of sports opportunities outside PE lessons.
To increase the motivation and team spirit through healthy competition.
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