WE HAVE BEEN AWARDED THE SCHOOL GAMES GOLD AWARD!

We are delighted to announce that we have achieved the School Games GOLD Mark Award for the 2021/22 academic year. The School Games Mark is a Government-led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward and recognise school’s engagement (provision and uptake) in the School Games against a national benchmark and to celebrate keeping young people active, and we are delighted to have been recognised for our success.

We are extremely proud of our pupils for their dedication to all aspects of physical activity and school sport, including those young volunteers, leaders and officials who made our events possible. We are committed to using the School Games to try and engage those young people who haven’t previously been active or represented our school and to try and ensure that all our students have a positive experience and want to try out new activities beyond school too in our community. We believe in the power of physical activity and school sport as a school and give opportunities to those young people that need it most either as a participant, leader, official or volunteer. As part of our application, we were asked to fulfil criteria in the areas linked to the five School Games outcomes and we are pleased that the hard work of everyone at our school has been rewarded this year.

A special thanks to parents, school staff and of course the children for their hard work and efforts in the past year. We look forward to applying once again in 2023!

 

Curriculum

Every class from Nursery to Year 6 receives two PE lessons per week, usually comprising of one indoor and one outdoor lesson.

We follow a sequential, developmental curriculum that progressively builds on past experiences and incorporates new experiences when children are ready.  Lessons are not simply selected randomly with no obvious connections to past and future lessons, or just as a way to keep children “busy, happy or good” for 60 minutes. They are based on fundamental skills as well as game-based skills.

As a school we use the app 'Primary PE Passport', this app allows teachers to easily assess and monitor the progress of each individual within the curriculum.

At Finstock we enter lots of competitions organised by the West Oxfordshire Sports Partnership. Over the past year we have entered:

• Cross Country
• Street Dance
• Athletics (Indoor and Outdoor)
• Boccia
• Cricket

 

Outdoor Learning

Learning need not take place solely within educational buildings. Outdoor time often provides the most memorable learning experiences and helps children to make sense of the world around them by putting their learning into a meaningful context. We are extremely fortunate to be set in lovely grounds and have an environment rich in opportunities and we make full use of our local area to enhance our educational provision.

School Games Day

We have our school games day each year in the Summer term. We split into 4 colour teams that are represented with children from each class. We begin by doing a carousel of activities that involve throwing, catching, agility, and jumping.

After this, the children take part in year group races. We finish the day with a parent and child race which can get quite competitive! 

The year's winners were (of course!) Miss James and Blue Team!