Sport at Southwood

Sport at Southwood Primary School

What we Offer

Through our PE, School Sports and Physical Activity we endeavour to use our whole school vision to encourage pupils to make the most of every opportunity they may come across.

We use every opportunity within our PE lessons, our school sports at intra and inter level, our team training, our inclusive and adapted sports, our SEND sports teams and our physical activity sessions to support our pupils to become independent, responsible, Caring and considerate pupils who are able to see the self-worth in their own ability and efforts. We aim for all of our pupils to be Healthy, happy, Sociable young people, Self-motivated, determined, positive and Honest, Hard working and aspirational, confident, independent learners, Creative, Curious and critical thinkers, Collaborators, innovators, Respectful and responsible, Communicate well with peers and Adults.

Aims and Objectives of Physical Education

To maintain and stimulate pupils’ interests and enjoyment in physical activity.

To promote exercise as part of a healthy lifestyle.

To introduce and develop the skills, principles and understanding of physical activities as outlined in the National Curriculum.

To engage and include all pupils with learning that is challenging and that meets the pupils’ individual needs.

To challenge the More Able pupils to ensure their learning experience is enhanced & provide progression

To provide appropriate resources so that it allows all pupils to have equal opportunity to experience success and enjoyment in PE.

To deliver lessons with high expectations of all pupils enabling them to learn exceptionally well.

To effectively check pupils’ understanding throughout lessons and use this information to adapt lesson.

To provide constructive feedback to pupils and encourage peer and self-assessment.

To help enhance pupils’ self-esteem through the development of their physical confidence and personal qualities.

To develop pupils’ knowledge of rules and regulations of the activities including the role of officials (Upper KS2 and lower if appropriate).

To enhance pupils’ awareness of the safety issues concerned with these activities and help them develop a sense of responsibility towards participating in physical activity

To encourage teamwork, support, tolerance and co–operation

To provide opportunities for all pupils to participate in inclusive Intra competitions at (Level 1).

To provide opportunities for pupils to participate in inclusive Inter competitions ( level 2 )

To provide opportunities for SEND children to participate in competitions

This year, at Southwood Primary School, we have entered more sport competitions than ever before. Here is a selection of pictures from some of our competitions

Joseph Gill from Turquiose class

is this year’s Panathlon’s ‘’Primary Outstanding Achievement Award’’ winner for London for immense bravery in the face of his learning disabilities and personal tragedy.

The eight-year-old, a pupil at Southwood Primary School,suffered a brain injury shortly after birth due to contracting meningitis. This brain injury impacted Joe’s ability to retain information, both his short term and long-term memory were affected.

He has developed a love of sport thanks to his PE teacher , Stewart Stevens and taking part in competitions organised by Panathlon, the charity which gives over 22, 000 disabled young people every year opportunities to engage in competitive sport they are so often denied.

Joe has made outstanding progress in the last few years- he has struggled with his independent skills and he would need support from his peers and adults to complete basic tasks- getting dressed after PE, remembering his coat and water bottle, listening and following basic instructions. He also struggled to make basic conversation with his peers and would return to the same ‘safe’ topics to initiate conversation (things that he could remember – his teeth falling out or helping Grandad with his car were his favourites)

Joe’s independence has grown over the last couple of years as well as his confidence and this has definitely been helped through his participation in the Panathlon.

Teacher Stewart Stevens said “ He loves to come back after the Panathlon events and share information about the day and show off his medals! He now shares information that he has remembered with family members and they can now join in with his excitement. He has learnt independent skills such as changing into his kit, remembering his own equipment and following instructions for each activity”.

“Through Panathlon Joe has learned how to play games within a team environment as well as individually. Panathlon has helped vastly with Joe’s independence, he now knows when & why we take turns in activities & the different types of equipment used for different activities”.

Since Joe has attended Panathlon this has enabled his grandparents to come and support him and have commented that they didn’t realise that activities like Panathlon ever existed and fully support this.

During Joe’s life journey he has had to encounter several operations at GOSH to replace the shunt in his head (a tube that drains fluid from his brain),he has never been upset during this and in fact he can’t wait to get back to school and show his class mates & teachers what he has had done and show off his battle wounds.

Joseph Gill is a worthy recipient of the Outstanding Achiever award and embodies all values and the ethos Panathlon aspires to

SING,DANCE,CREATE & MOVE

The attached link is full of great links for activities to do at home - art, music, dance, sports, performance, cooking etc

https://padlet.com/head260/Bookmarks

HOLIDAY HAMMERS - HALF TERM CAMPS, MAY 26 - 29 MAY

The West Ham United Foundation’s delivery has altered due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic and as West Ham’s response continues, the half-term is going to bring a new element to their holiday delivery programme.

Running 10:30am-2:30pm on 26-29 May, the Foundation’s Holiday Hammers will be running free interactive, fun online development sessions, catering for boys and girls of all abilities from 5 to 14 years old.

We invite the whole household to get involved in these sessions! Send in your images of you taking part to @WHUFoundation on Twitter!

Coaches will be brought directly to you through video links and some of our first team and academy players will also be getting involved.

The sessions will be workable whatever the space you have and will provide support for those wanting to improve physical literacy skills to those wanting to follow in Mark Noble or Gilly Flaherty’s footsteps.

There will be a range of activities from Technical Football Challenges to Healthy Eating to Fun Fancy Dress Quizzes and lots more.

A link to our virtual coures will be sent prior to 10am each day for you to go watch and join in

Follow this link to book on / register for the free sessions: https://foundation.whufc.com/booking/bookCourse.htm

PE activities at Home

Real PE at home includes an online programme which supports families to be active, play and learn together. It includes a programme specifically for children in Early Years and Key Stage 1 with 12 themes, 6 areas, over 250 activities and challenges and 1000s of hours of fun and activity.

For children in Key Stage 2 there are carefully selected personal best challenges, skills and games designed for the home and garden. Daily and weekly guidance is provided for both programmes in addition to an option to choose your own themes and activities.

There are so many benefits to being active, not only to our physical wellbeing but also to our emotional and mental health, especially in such testing times for all of us. We hope that the ideas help support you and your family to stay fit and healthy in the coming months. Here are the details to access Real PE at home:

The website address is: home.jasmineactive.com
Parent login : parent@southwoodp-1.com
Password: southwoodp

Fun inter active game

Fun Home workouts

Joe Wicks home PE Each day Joe Wicks will run some fun PE activities