Physical Education and Sport
“Try…and fail…but don’t fail to try.”
John Quincy Adams
Our Vision For PE at Loxley Primary School
At Loxley School Physical Education (PE) and sporting provisions are at our core. A high-quality PE and sports programme are important for our pupils for several reasons.
By taking part in a wide range of sports our pupils are learning the importance of a healthy lifestyle.
We know that being active helps our pupils be ready to learn and pay better attention when they are in the classroom.
Regular physical activity is the best way to help fight against obesity. It’s our aim that by the end of the academic year every child will be doing a minimum of 60 active minutes at school.
Fundamental motor skills are developed and improved on in PE lessons, they also help to build confidence not just on the sporting pitch but in the classroom as well.
Our pupils learn important lessons around accepting responsibility not just in self-discipline but also in their development.
Our PE lessons and sports leaders initiative helps to promote a wide range of opportunities for all pupils to be competitive, be cooperate with others and work well within a team.
The understanding of being honest, being a good sportsman, and dealing with both success and defeat both on and off the pitch is learnt and improved on within our PE lessons.
How we make our vision a reality
At Loxley Primary school it’s our intention that all children receive a high- quality PE lessons that not only helps them to perform in a range of physical activities with increasing confidence and competence but also embeds a love for life long participation.
We have a broad range of sports on our curriculum from gymnastics and dance to athletics and rounders and even rink hockey.
We employ a sports coach to deliver PE and support our class teachers.
All our Key Stage 2 children have the opportunity to attended our local sports centre and take part in badminton lessons delivered by Martin Drabble who is the Bradfield Junior Badminton Club Coach.
Its our aim that by the end of the school year every child in school will have had the chance to represent Loxley Primary School at a sporting competition or festival.
We encourage children to take part in an active lunch and break time with the help of our sports leaders.
Each year our sports coach undertakes a task of checking our pupils attitude towards PE and sport this might be done by an informal chat, questionnaire or game within their lessons.
Improving the knowledge and skills of staff is important to us as a school so we make sure that training is on offer and we team teach with our sports coach.
Sports Leaders
Every year with the support of Links School Sports Partnership. We train over 30 Year 5 and Year 6 children up to become our sports leaders. These children then deliver a range of different sporting activities on the playground for our children to take part in during their lunch time. These activities range from ball skills to dance, gymnastics, cheer-leading and balance bikes.
With the support of our Loxley Sports Leaders with are able to ensure all children at school have an active lunch time and are achieving their 60 minuets of physical activity every day they are in school.
Beat your Best
At Loxley School we have an amazing scheme in place to help our children to be active and competitive with themselves over their lunch and break times.
Our Beat Your Best scheme was researched and developed by two of our past students. They spent time talking to children on the playground at lunch time asking what they enjoyed doing the most and what they didn’t like. They then designed a pack full of different activities with challenges for all the children to complete each day and try to beat their own scores.
This is a fantastic scheme that our children enjoy both taking part in and developing new challenges each year.
Health Week
In May we have a a full week dedicated to physical education, sports and promoting a healthy lifestyle.
Within this week we change our timetable and offer a range of different healthy living opportunities for our children including talking about healthy eating, social media and the effects if it and what physical activity does to our body. We also offer a range of alternative sporting activities for our children from Zumba, football, street dance to rink hockey, fencing, boxing, balance bikes and everything between.
Our fun filled health week happens with the help and support from Links School Sports Partnership. Find out about all their amazing work at https://links-ssp.com/
We end our health week with one of our favourite days at school, our Sports Day. On this day all our children take part in a whole school warm up dance, then move on to the field events, where they represent their team trying to score as many points as possible and we end our Sports day with our track races. All our children take part in the different races including the egg and spoon, three legged race, sack races, our very own ‘Dolphin Relay’ and not forgetting the mums’ and dads’ races.
This day is a great success and always runs smoothly thank to the amazing help from our past students who now attend Bradfield Secondary School.
Extra Curricular Clubs
As a school we offer a wide range of sporting extra curricular clubs. Some of our successful clubs are our Fitness club, Running Club, Netball Club, Dance Club and Gymnastics Club. The aim of all our clubs is for children to get active whilst having fun.
Clubs like Netball, Running and Gymnastics help prepare our children for upcoming events and competitions, however if the children want to attend the clubs and not take part in the competitions we encourage this too.
All information for upcoming clubs will be sent to you via squid where you can register your child’s interest.
Competitions and Festivals
At Loxley Primary School it’s our aim that every child from Reception to Year 6 gets to represent our school within a competition, tournament or festival. Over the past few years we have entered a wide range of competitions and festivals from the Key Steps Gymnastics, Hotshots, Futsal, Football to Movefest, Circus skills, Swimming Gala and so much more.
For a small school we do very well in these different competitions however it isn’t just our success at these events that show off our sporting ability, its how each child represents themselves as top class athletes, who push themselves to win but also show great team work, honesty, determination, passion, self-belief and respect. These are all qualities that we believe are so important in developing the children’s sportsmanship.
Past Sports Success
Cross country – Over the past few years we have seen our highest number of pupils taking part in the Sheffield Federation for School Sports Cross country events this year https://www.sfss.co.uk/
Y3/4 Girls (out of 250 runners) Kitty – 20th Anna H – 110th Gracie G – 117th
Y3/4 Boys – (out of 256 runners) Liam R -35th Freddie W – 39th Sam W- 86th Aiden E – 96th Ben L – 118th George T – 139th Sam B – 164th
Y5/6 Girls (out of 250 runners) Esther - 24th Roxy D – 59th
Y5/6 Boys (out of 250 runners) Elliott -35th Oscar – 87th
Netball
Over the past year we have developed our first Netball Team and started entering the SFSS netball competitions. Our girls have been representing school amazingly and came 3rd out of 10 teams in their latest competition.
Athletics is one of the sports that our children excel in. Over the past few years we have entered a range of different competitions. Our Year 3 team came first overall in their competition with some great performances from all the children involved. Our Y5/6 Athletics team took part in their competition at Bradfield School. They fought hard and pushed themselves at every hurdle. Coming out as over all champions and taking first place.
Other Sporting Achievements
Y4 Hotshots Sheffield finals 2nd place
KS2 Boys Futsal Sheffield Finals 3rd place
KS2 Boys Futsal South Yorkshire Finals 4th Place
Year 5/6 Sheffield finals 1st place winners for the Advanced Gymnastics team
Year 5/6 Sheffield finals 1st place winners for the Foundation Gymnastics team
Year 3/ 4 Sheffield finals 1st place winners for the Foundation Gymnastics team
Year 5/6 South Yorkshire finals 3rd place for the Foundation Gymnastics team
Year 3/ 4 South Yorkshire Champions for the Foundation Gymnastics team
KS2 Sheffield Schools badminton competition
- Boys singles finalist
- Boys doubles 2 semi- finalists
- Girls singles semi finalist
- Girls double semi finalist
Year 3 Benchball (Bradfield cluster) 1st place
Y5/6 Sports hall athletics (Bradfield cluster) 2nd place
School Games Gold Mark – For all the outstanding work we do in KS2 around sports and competitions
Sheffield Schools KS1 Gold Mark
Sheffield School Sports Crew of the year award
These events and competition happens thanks to the amazing work of Links School Sports Partnership.
School Swimming Lessons
Our Y4 class undertake an 18 week block of swimming lessons. At the end of the block, pupils are assessed to see if they have met the national curriculum requirements for swimming and water safety. These are-
• Swim on front or back over a distance of at least 25 meters
• Use a range of strokes effectively over a distance of 10 meters (for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke)
• Perform safe self-rescue (Water Safety)