P.E and School Sport at Scholes
Being active is a very important way of life at Scholes. We aim to have a physically and mentally active community within our school. We feel that this is reached by our children being happy and being involved with as much sport and movement as possible.
We pride ourselves on working with professional coaches to develop our staff and children as well as participating in competitive games wherever possible. Sports week is an important week in our school calendar. This is when participation is celebrated and competition is embraced.
As well as the curriculum we provide many physical after school clubs which reach a wide range of children’s interests as well as participating in festivals within the wider community.
It is important to us that our children have a voice in this area so a school committee called ‘Sports ambassadors’ has been created. This is a place children can bring their ideas about the curriculum, after school and in the playground. They are also able to share with us things that they think work as well as areas they wish to develop.
Our children's thoughts and feelings about School Sport.
"I like danceclub because it's fun and all my friends go." Yr5
"Netball club is fun! We have a laugh and I love the games we play." Yr4
"I like playing tag rugby and grabbing each others tags." Yr1
Year 2 told the P.E lead that the most important objective in P.E is to, "keep safe!"
"P.E is good for you because you are getting exercise and it is fun." Y1
P.E policy
Expectations of children
What has been happening in school?
Golden time
We have started the new school year off by celebrating good behaviour, hard work and determination with, 'golden time.' The children are loving their Friday afternoons spent playing with lots of new equipment that encourages them to be physically active. Some of these activities include boules, croquet, velcro hands and catch cups.
Events
Cross Country
It was fantastic to see many of our children compete in the cross country festival @ Whitechapel. It was even more exciting to find out that our year 5 boys and girls team have got through to the next stage as well as one of our year 4 girls who happens to be our wildcard runner!
Cross Country update
Last month we took our year 5 team and our wildcard runner from year 4. Unfortunately, we didn't manage to qualify as a team but we do have one child representing us at the county competition. We are super proud and cannot wait to support him at Temple Newsam.
Our link Governor
Sport is something that has always been of huge importance in my life, since I was a young child. I would play football, cricket and tennis, primarily, as a child and then teenager, and I always enjoyed the opportunity to be active and be involved in sports.
During my teenage years, I qualified as a football referee as I looked at ways to potentially become involved in sport in a more professional capacity until work eventually took over!
In the past few years, I have taken up running as I find this a quick and easy way to be able to take in some form of exercise on a regular basis. Running provides me with the opportunity to keep fit physically, but it also helps to keep my mental health feeling positive as being able to get out in the fresh air and get moving always makes me feel better.
I also now coach my youngest son's junior football team and it gives me a great sense of pride and satisfaction in watching them develop and enjoy playing sport.
Thanks,
Mark
