Good Afternoon : Friday 24th May 2013
Sports Up-dates

An Introduction

 

The report below indicates the excellent progress the school has made with PE provision both in and out of school this year. We are always striving to increase provision for out of school activities and all our staff run at least one out of school club free of charge, however to cater for the needs of all pupils they are not all sports clubs.  In a school this size (over 400 pupils!) it is challenging to ensure every child has access to a club of their choice but as you can see below we are working with other agencies to meet this challenge.

 

PE & School Sport at AJS

Update September 2010 - April 2011 

J Thompson

 

Curriculum Provision

The subject provision has been completely developed and has been identified as an area within the School Development Plan. Significant changes to the timetable have been made to allow the subject areas to be 'blocked' as recommended by Norfolk County Council PE Advisory Team. This means that the year groups no longer use our sports hall on mass but instead share our allocated time there evenly in classes. Each class now has either Mrs Thompson or Mrs Lacey-Edwards take one of the two weekly PE lessons with the class teacher delivering the other. Both the lessons in a week cover the same element of the PE curriculum (blocking), with the class teacher and either JT or TLE working together to ensure progression, attainment and individually planned lessons. JT is encouraging staff to become more confident in order to personalise the lessons, try new ideas and steer away from previously used schemes of work.

 

Inset

·                      Twilight for whole staff inset led by JT on PE & School Sport strategy, school provision, development plan

·                      Twilight for whole staff led by our School Sport Co-ordinator on Kwik Cricket and Teeball.

·                      NCC 'Monitoring High Quality PE' day attended by JT

·                      NCC 'Planning for Learning' day attended by JT

·                      Active Norfolk 'Gymnastics Core Proficiency' day attended by JT

·                      Twilight Tri-golf workshop attended by JT and Maureen Sealey

 

Sports Clubs (delivered by school staff)

 

Club                            Yr Grp             Lead by                      New/Developed/Established

Cross Country           4,5,6               DD, Coach                 Re-developed

Athletics                     All                    DD, JT, Coach          Re-developed

Dance                         3/4                   JT                                New

Salsa                          3                      AJ                               New

Multi-Sports               3                      Yr 7's, JT                    New

Multi-Skills                  3/4                   Yr 6's                          Developed

Korfball                       4/5                   TLE, BE                     Established

Girls Football             6                      EP                               Established

Boys Football            6                      SC, SH                       Re-developed

Table Tennis              6                      JT                                Re-established

Tennis                         3                      AB                               Established (Summer term)

 

 

Competitions/Festivals

 

Norwich School Sport Partnership-

these opportunities have been available in the past but are all new to our school this year;

Quicksticks Hockey                          Year 4/5,                     November 2010

Swimming Gala                                 All Years,                    January 2011

Dance Festival                                  year 3,                        February 2011

Cross Country                                   years 4/5/6,                March 2011

County Finals Cross Country,          years 4/5/6,                March 2011

Girls Kwik Cricket,                            years 5/6,                   May 2011

Mixed Kwik Cricket,              years 5/6,                   May 2011

Dance Festival,                                 2 year 5 classes,       May 2011

Great Schools Run                            year 6                         May 2011

Tri-golf                                                year 4/5                      June 2011

Basketball,                                         year 4/5,                     July 2011

Opportunity taken up in the past;

Mini-tennis,                                        year 3/4,                     June 2011

Multi-sports Festival                          all year 3                     June 2011

 

Primary School Sports Association

Cross Country League, 6 races,     years 4/5/6

Girls Football League, 3 matches   year 6,

Boys Football League, 5 matches  year 6,

City Sports,                                        all years

Korfball League,                                year 4/5

 

Leadership

·                      Introduction of Sports Monitor Passports to year 3/4

·                      37 year 6 pupils applied for the Leadership training

·                      16 completed the course

·                      All 16 run regular weekly lunchtime sports clubs for year ¾

·                      All 16 will support Recreation Road Infant School sports day

·                      All 16 have lead activities at the NSSP year 2 multi-skills event at Easton College, see email below;

 

From: Chrystal Widdeson

To: Office - Avenue Junior

Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 2:39 PM

Subject: Multiskills Festival last week

 

Dear Sir/Madam,

 

Last week, the children in our Year 2 classes attended a Multiskills Festival at Easton College. We had a brilliant morning, working round the circuit of activities and trying out new skills. I wanted to say that the Year 6 students from Avenue Junior School were a brilliant help. They were extremely patient with our youngsters and were excellent role models for them. Some of our children had disabilities (we have a group of Deaf children) and your Year 6 students were fantastic at making the activities accessible for all of them. You should be very proud.

Thanks to you all for your hard work.

 

Chrystal Widdeson (PE Subject Leader, Colman Infant School)

 

 

Newly Developed Opportunities

·                      NSSP Dance Co-ordinator in school working with the 3 classes taking part in the Dance Festival

·                      Sport Unlimited funded coach, John Painter CONAC, working with DD and the cross country club for 8 weeks. Such a success that the pupils are going to continue to fund John for athletics club in the summer term.

·                      All year 5 took part in our own dance showcase for their parents at the sports hall.

·                      Year 6 dances performed at the school open evening.

·                      We hosted the NSSP cross country trials at our school field

·                      Norfolk Dance have worked with 50 year 5/6s and offered 20 of them 10 free coaching sessions at the Garage.

·                      FA coach coming into work with 2 year 4 classes for eight weeks of football skills in the summer term.

·                      We hosted the NSSP mini-tennis workshop for Primary Link Teachers from across the county

·                      We are accessing the Golf Roots Project through NSSP. We will receive training, a golf professional working with pupils, £300 worth of equipment and will be part of the festival.

·                      We will be holding sporting events and activities as part of National School Sports Week – WATCH THIS SPACE.