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Ellwood Community Primary School

PE

Physical Education at Ellwood Community Primary School

 

Our mission: As athletes we are active, healthy and display good sportsmanship

We are passionate to give as many children as possible the opportunity to complete in a variety of competitions and children having the opportunities to learn arrange of sport. It is also important that we create sport leaders that support children at lunch time to support playtime games and to promote our school values. We thrive to provide children with opportunities to develop lifelong skills and a ‘never give up attitude’ through a variety of sports such as, biking, dance, yoga and gymnastics.

The School Games Mark is a Government-led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community. We are delighted to have been recognised for our success and have received a Gold award! This is an amazing achievement to receive the Gold School Games award for our commitment to encouraging children to be active, our PE curriculum and provision, good progression and skills mapped across the school, new opportunities to try different sports, wellbeing, vast range of clubs, competitions, taster days and our provision for all children. The award also looks at the support we give children to develop their well-being and healthy lifestyles. We needed to provide a lot of evidence to be able to receive a Gold award and this demonstrates our commitment to developing the whole child and not just focusing on the academic side of education.

We are extremely proud of our pupils for their dedication to all aspects of school sport, including those young volunteers, leaders and officials who made our competitions possible.

As part of our application, we were asked to fulfil criteria in the areas of participation, competition, staff skills, well-being, being active, planning, assessment, curriculum and clubs and we are pleased that the hard work of everyone at our school has been rewarded this year.

Mrs Milford would like to thank all staff (especially Miss Hek for her hard work for submitting the application), staff and children for their hard work and efforts achieving this award, we couldn't have done it without you!!
PE Policy: 
Sports Premium - please see sports premium section of the website for more information.
PE Implementation, Intent and Impact:
 
PE Skills and Knowledge Progression Overview:

2025-2026 Learning 

2024-2025 Learning 
In PE, we have been learning how to throw underarm, rolling a ball and hitting a ball with a tennis racket.
2023-2024 Learning 
Beech Summer 1 
 
This term in PE we are developing our fitness and athletic skills.
Beech enjoying their biking sessions
Archery Taster Day 2023-2024
2023-2024 Learning 
Oak class have been enjoying exploring "The Jungle" during their PE lessons using the Jungle Journey programme. The children have practised their listening skills to keep safe in PE, they have also been learning skills such as balancing, ball control, core control, team work and exploring different methods of movement around the jungle (hall). Oak class have really enjoyed their first few weeks of PE in school.
Gymnastics School Competition
 
We have been very successful with Gymnastics over the years. We won the local gymnastics competition in 2019, 2020, 2023 and again more recently in 2024. 
 
In the 2024 competition we had numerous first placings and were the highest scoring school.
 
The children really enjoy it and we are lucky to be able to train in the Forest of Dean Gymnastic Centre and make use of their fantastic facilities. 
 
 
 
 
Celebrating outside of school achievements
 
Well done Phoebe, who competed in the Quatro League Teamgym competition at Cardiff. Phoebe and two others in her team placed 1st place receiving a gold medal and a trophy. We are very proud of you Phoebe!
Well done Leia who is doing really well in her swimming lessons! 
 
Sporting Events
Well done to the girls’ football team today! They played an excellent game drawing two games and losing one making it through to the semi-finals.
Here are some snaps below of our recent netball tournament we took part in. Unfortunately this time around we didn't make the final but the team put in a good performance, well done everyone. It was good fun and helped us to build our resilience!
Beech Class Spring 1 2023
This term the children in Beech class are developing their athletic skills this term with the Prostars team.
Year 1 are attending the Gymnastics centre to develop their balancing and coordination skills. Alongside our PE lessons Chestnut class are developing their skills in dance with Mrs Reeve and Miss Evans from Progressive Sports.
Spring 2023
This term to enhance our teaching and learning Mr Clarke from Progressive Sports has been working with Miss Hek and Mrs Aston in delivering 'Ball Skills' in Beech Class and 'Fundamental Skills' in Chestnut Class. Mr Clarke has also supported our Sports Leaders at lunch time with teaching new games and running the afterschool Fencing club. We are very grateful for this opportunity to develop our teaching of PE and the children have enjoyed their time with Mr Clarke. We are looking forward to working with Progressive Sports again in the Spring Term.
Fencing Club
Netball Club
Chestnut and Oak class are enjoying YOGA this term!