Participation is Key

It has been a busy start to the term in the PE Department resulting in high engagement and activity levels across all years!

In the 1st week of lessons, students were exposed to a wide range of exciting fundamental movement warm ups. Since, this has allowed different students to build their confidence and communication by independently organising and leading warm ups for the class. We’ve also seen students flourish, including our Year 9 Sports Mentors and Yr11 Sports Prefects, in other leadership opportunities e.g. Year 9 Rugby Lessons, Open Evening, Year 6 Taster Day and coaching at extra-curricular clubs!

It’s not been uncommon this term to see all of our facilities in use after school. Our sporting extra-curricular programme has been as popular as ever with an average of 400 students a week in attendance. This includes Dance and Boxing club, which are two new popular additions. Fixtures are also up and running! In football we already have 4 boys and 4 girls teams that have progressed into the 2nd Round of the National Cup. There have also been 2 fantastic Rugby tournaments organised by Mr Reid. Many more fixtures are to come including Netball, Basketball and X-Country.

In only the 1st three weeks, PE & Sport is already bringing out the best in our students. We have seen countless examples of sportsmanship, leadership, determination, communication, passion and self-belief. The PE Department are excited to continue and facilitate the positive start made by our students!

Mr Martin

Deputy Head PE