Furness Primary School

All Year 6 students have been been trained on water safety skills including:

Treading water

Swimming with clothes on

Performing rescues

Jumps

All Students have received training on how to swim effectively on three different strokes: Frontcrawl, Backstroke and Breastroke.

Intent

A high-quality physical education curriculum inspires all pupils to succeed and excel in competitive sport and other physically-demanding activities. It should provide opportunities for pupils to become physically confident in a way which supports their health and fitness. Opportunities to compete in sport and other activities build character and help to embed values such as fairness and respect.

Aims

To ensure that all pupils

To develop competence to excel in a broad range of physical activities

To ensure lessons are physically active for sustained periods of time.

To engage in competitive sports and activities

To lead healthy, active lives.

Implementation

After school activities

The National Curriculum

Whole school Assemblies

Cycling Initiatives and Events

Sports coaches from outside delivering Extra-Curricular activities

Level 2 competitions

Level 1 competitions

Lunch time clubs

Structured activities in both palygrounds lead by Young Leaders

Young leaders to Support in KS1 and KS2

Impact

Between 230-240 KS2 children will be swimming once a week from Year 3 to Year 6 this academic year. This is part of the school’s long term commitment towards swimming and making Furness stand out from other schools in this area. We definitely offer more than the average students would receive in a different school and we are very proud of that. This high level of provision equips our children with skills for life. The impact can be seen on the increased percentage of students meeting the national swimming requirement (25m swim on the back or Front) by the time they leave year 6.

A high quality physical education and school sport experiences will have a positive impact on young people’s physical, social and cognitive development, their well-being and level of achievement. Increasing the amount of knowledge

Up to 120 Children will take part in Korfball sessions for free during the month of June and July. Throughout the year, the posts can be used to teach invasion sports such as Netball and Basketball. Coaching will be delivered free of charge by newly qualified coaches / students form the convent on a yearly basis so this makes this investment very sustainable.

Children learn through using different equipment, which will translate in increase their skills in different areas of development.

Students will have access to further improve their sporting skills in a more structured way at lunch time. This will then link to Level 2 competitions. Young Leaders and Play workers to run structured activities in the playground.

Increase opportunities for competitive sport in school will improve results in outside the school competitions as well.