PE

We believe that physical education, experienced in a safe, engaging and supportive environment, is a significant factor in developing our children’s physical competence and confidence.

We promote physical skilfulness, physical development and knowledge of the body in action. We aim to give a stimulating, enjoyable and appropriately challenging learning experience. Children are given the oppotunity throughout the school to take part in competitions both at intra-school level and against other schools to encourage co-operation, problem solving skills and creative thinking to build good sportsmanship. 

Our children are also encouraged to appreciate the importance of a healthy lifestyle and be aware of the factors that affect our health and fitness.

Our garden is coming along brilliantly. Lots of the vegetable seeds have grown and we’ve been able to plant then out in our new raised beds. We also planted out some perennial flowers today to bring some colour to our garden. Still lots to do though. 

As part of Healthy Living Week we were delighted to welcome Ashley Williams, a Commonwealth Bronze medalist in boxing, to our school today. He did an assembly explaining how he got into the sport, what his training entailed and how it felt to achieve his bronze medal in such a big competition. He then did workshops with the whole school in which the children were sponsored. We raised over £300, half of which will go towards training GB athletes and the other half will be for sports equipment for our school. 

We’ve had a very active week this week for Healthy Living Week. We started with a long all day walk on Monday, we walked a mile a day sometimes around the school yard and a couple of times down to Durham Hens. We’ve had Inter-house competitions in orienteering, team building and physical challenges and we have had lessons on how to plan a healthy balanced meal. It’s been great fun especailly as the sun shone all week. 

Dean from All Stars Cricket came in today to show us what was on offer in his cricket sessions at local clubs. The children loved it and have gone home with lots of information about how to sign up. 

We’ve had a great time in skipping club this term. It’s proved one of our most popular clubs. We’ve learnt some new tricks like ‘The Pretzel’ and ‘The Double Jump’ and most exciting of all we’ve cracked Double Dutch skipping! It’s very tricky but we really worked together to help each other practise. The children are practising their skills on the playground and helping other children get better too. 

We’ve had a fantastic morning this morning when Gail from Skipping School came to show us some skipping skills. She was very impressed with the advanced skills of many of our children. We had great fun learning new tricks. We’re pleased to say we have purchased some snazzy new skipping ropes too so we can continue practising. 

Blessed John Duckett had so much sporting talent! We saw plenty of it in our talent show this afternoon: football, dance, gymnastics, boxing and skipping were all on show. A very entertaining afternoon with some amazing skill on show!

We have new raised flower beds in our garden! We’re very excited and hopeful that we’ll be able to now keep the weeds uncontrol better. 

Our whole school took part in a Inter-house Indoor Sports day today. We had four competitions: how many hula-hoops can you do in a minute, how many skips in 30 seconds, how many keeping-uppies with a bat and ball in a minutes and how many basketball hoops can you score in a minute.

Congratulations to Mark house who won the competition and well done to everyone who took part.  

Our school have been taking part in a Wild Flower Project on Millenium Green. We’ve been carrying out surveys about what plants and wildlife live there. Today years 1and 2 planted bulbs around the pond area and in the woods. 

We had great fun at the Basketball Festival at Parkside Comprehensive School. Many other schools in our area took part. We showed great attacking and defending skills as well as fantastic resilience as we were often playing against teams that were older than us. 

Year 5 and 6 took part in a local Tag Rugby Festival. We were chuffed to bits to reach the semi-finals!