Sports
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PRESS RELEASE
Redmile CE Primary school came out on top in the Melton & Belvoir Primary Schools Girls Football Tournament held at Asfordby Amateurs.
The year 5/6 competition saw 11 schools take part in the well-organised event. Redmile battled to a 0-0 draw in their opening group match against Bottesford before winning their remaining 3 matches to top the group, conceding just 1 goal. Next up were the semi-finals where they defeated Brownlow 1-0. The final saw an extremely tight re-match with Bottesford. Both teams gave their all but with the score line 0-0 after extra-time it was down to a penalty shootout to separate the two sides.
Redmiles’ ability to stay calm and resilient saw them across the finishing line. Redmile qualified to represent Melton & Belvoir at the Danone Schools Football Finals later in November.
Mrs Hopkins, Executive Head teacher, said “I am thrilled that our team has done so well; I am extremely proud of them and very grateful to all the organisers and sports teachers who have made this opportunity to compete possible. The covid pandemic put a complete halt to all competitive inter-school sports last year (except virtual ones!) so for our children to be getting out of school to participate in active sports once again with other schools is simply the best!”
Sports at Our School
Our work is planned in accordance with the National Curriculum for Physical Education 2014, which aims to ensure that all children:
- develop competence to excel in a broad range of physical activities;
- are physically active for sustained periods of time;
- engage in competitive sports and activities;
- lead healthy, active lives.
We are pleased to offer at least two hours of sports education as part of our school curriculum, with a variety of other opportunities delivered outside of school hours as our commitment to achieving these aims.
To find out more about getting active in our area, see the Melton Sport and Health Alliance website (external link).
Games and Gymnastics
Miss Griffin, our sports coach, plans and delivers a varied PE curriculum with the support of other staff members and in collaboration with the class teachers.
Children learn to play all kinds of sports, such as cricket, netball, badminton, handball and tag rugby, as well as a course of gymnastics in the spring term and athletics in the summer. All lessons involve an element of SAQ (Speed Agility and Quickness training) to build up their stamina, as well as practising individual skills, learning fair play and team tactics.
Our teaching and learning recognises the seven values associated with the Olympics. These are made up of three Olympic values - Friendship, Respect and Excellence - along with the four Paralympic values - Determination, Inspiration, Courage and Equality. These values underpin the way we approach sports at Redmile School.
As we have a lovely school hall and large playing field for teaching PE we can offer a variety of learning opportunities all year round, whatever the weather.
Dance
Our dance teacher, Cheryl, works with all classes, delivering a varied programme which excites and motivate the children. Children will learn a range of dance styles (from ballroom and Latin, to disco and country dancing), building up to a performance to the rest of the school and community.
Dancing is really helping to develop the fitness of the children along with teaching them some cool new moves!
Swimming
Children across the school have weekly swimming lessons during the spring and summer terms. One of our teachers plus a team of assistants and family members help with supervision to the Leisure Centre in Bingham, where there are two pools for all abilities.
The children are taught by fully qualified swimming instructors. Children work towards specific targets and are rewarded with certificates when they complete each stage. Competent swimmers are taught aspects of personal survival, whilst new swimmers are sensitively encouraged to feel safe in the water before learning correct strokes and water skills.
The following information is updated annually:
| Meeting national curriculum requirements for swimming and water safety | 2023 |
| Percentage of Year 6 cohort swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres | 79% |
| Percentage of Year 6 cohort who can use a range of strokes effectively (for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke) | 79% |
| Percentage of Year 6 cohort who can perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations? | 64% |
| Schools can choose to use the Primary PE and Sport Premium to provide additional provision for swimming but this must be for activity over and above the national curriculum requirements, but we haven’t used it in this way to date. |
Physical Development in Reception
Physical development in Reception is a slightly broader area than just PE. Children will learn skills such as walking, running, skipping, jumping, balancing and not bumping into things.
As well as developing the gross motor skills that are required to move about safely, children also need to develop control of all the smaller muscles which, for example, move when we pick something up - these take time to develop and come through using and playing with objects such as cutlery, cars, jigsaws, construction activities and other playthings. From this, the children develop body-confidence which encourages them to want to push a car along a track, ride a trike, climb on a stump or jump in a puddle. As children develop control and coordination, they eventually learn how to handle items such as a pen or pencil, a pair of scissors and a paint brush.
Apart from the free flow curriculum planned to enable the children to access activities designed to develop their physical ability such as those mentioned above, the children will join in with additional activities planned by Miss Griffin, as well as accessing further experiences in our woodland project.
Tournaments/Competitions
At our school we enter and participate in many sporting tournaments across the Vale of Belvoir and Melton communities. These have also led us to participate in events in wider parts of Leicestershire, such as cross country events. Some key achievements that we have recently achieved can be found on our Sports Premium page.
One thing is certain, we have a trophy cabinet full to bursting which we are very proud of!
School Sports Day
Our annual sports day occurs during the summer term. All children, parents/carers and family members, including toddlers, participate in a morning of competitive games.
The children are placed into their family teams and compete against each other through a range of activities, such as relays, water race, beanbag shuttle and ball balance relay. They then compete in year group sprint races and javelin, where again the scores are aggregated and added to the final team score. Then, the children compete for the final points through a tug of war competition (followed by a mums ‘n’ dads tug of war match).
At the end of the morning, the children take part in an awards ceremony, where the points achieved by each team member throughout the day are counted up to give us our school champions.
