PE
PE and School Sport is led by PE specialist Mrs Chauhan with support from Mr Sainsbury and is delivered by class teachers.
PE and sport have been proven to promote skills such as working as part of a team, develop social and communication skills, decision making and leadership skills which are needed not only across the curriculum but in everyday life. Children learn to pay by rules and boundaries, are encouraged to take on leadership roles by coaching, leading, refereeing or scoring. They develop their self-confidence by performing their work to others. They are able to peer and self-assess performances and give feedback with reflection being an important factor. They try to improve and beat their ‘Personal Best’ and take part in competitive sport learning to show good sporting behaviour, fair play and how to deal with winning and losing.
Our aim is to ensure that our children take part in a wide range of sports and activities to develop their skills, knowledge and understanding and know how to lead a healthy lifestyle whilst following the National Curriculum for PE.
Our curriculum covers:
- Games (Invasion, net and wall, target games, striking & Fielding) such as netball, football, rugby, tennis, cricket, rounders, handball and tchoukball.
- Gymnastics including parkour and sports acrobatics.
- Athletics both indoors and outdoors.
- Dance – Children take part in a range of different dance genres such as Chinese New Year Dragon Dance, breakdancing and Blue Planet .
- Year 1 have weekly ballet lessons with a specialist dance teacher.
- Health and Fitness including skipping, circuit training, Zumba, boxericse, yoga among others.
- Swimming – Year 5 attend swimming lessons at Victoria Park Leisure Centre in Ilkeston.
- Commando Joe’s – Each class has a weekly Commando Joe’s lesson which develops the R.E.S.P.E.C.T skills and OAA activities.
EYFS
In Nursery and F2, children are taught and explore PESD skills as follows:
- Fundamental skills in dance & movement
- Games
- ABC (Agility, balance & Coordination) skills
Extra Curricular and Competitive Opportunities
We offer many different after school clubs during the school year including: gymnastics, football, team games, rounders, cricket, dance, athletics and running.We are members of the Eastwood and District Sports Association and take part in competitions in football, rounders, athletics, dance, cricket and cross country.
The KS1 Football Festival is led by Mrs Chauhan and held at Florence annually and the District cross country is hosted at the school every year.
We also take part in some Broxtowe area competitions.
Please see the link for the National Curriculum for PE - National Curriculum in PE.
