Sport And Physical Health
Our Sport and Physical Health programme is unique among schools.
Our approach to competitive sport is inclusive. Every child is encouraged to take part and has opportunities to play. We run as many teams in each year group as we can, playing fixtures against other schools across ability ranges from Under 8s upwards. We provide extensive sporting provision outside of our target sports where pupils have the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of different activities. The importance of teamwork and purposeful practice are important to us all.
The Year 6 rugby and netball teams have the opportunity to go on a weekend tour accompanied by school staff. This weekend is seen as the culmination of the season and the touring party play two fixtures and have two nights away with their teammates enjoying a team meal and fun activities such as bowling and lasershoot.
Our bespoke Early Years Sport and Physical Health programme takes our younger pupils through a range of fundamental movement skills, hand-eye coordination activities, gymnastics and swimming lessons that build water confidence. All of our Nursery and Reception pupils enjoy participating in our Balanceability programme – a fun cycling based session that gradually takes our pupils from using balance bikes to independently cycling with pedals.
Physical Health
The Physical Health programme includes five key modules that aim to implement and improve life skills, fundamental movement patterns, athletic development and coordination.
The following modules are covered across the course of an academic year:
1. Athletic development
2. Grasp/strike manipulation skills
3. Throw/catch manipulation skills
4. Stabilisation/gymnastics
5. Swimming
Facilities
We are very lucky to have all our facilities on site where are pupils enjoy regular training and an extensive range of activities.
Our facilities include:
- Full size floodlit astro with additional practice area
- 4 lane swimming pool
- Extensive grass space which includes 5 rugby pitches, two football pitches & 4 cricket squares.
- Specialist climbing walls for both indoor and outdoor climbing
- 9 tennis courts
- 4 netball courts
- Specialist areas for athletics including high jump, long jump, shot putt and discuss
The Princess Royal Sports Complex is unique in the area with extensive facilities within it, which include:
- 6 full size badminton courts
- Specialist viewing balcony that seats 150
- Full size indoor hockey space
- Full size indoor basketball space with retractable hoops
- 4 indoor cricket nets
- Two state of the art gym facilities that cater for our athletic development pathways
- The movement suite which includes specialist space for fencing, gymnastics, dance, yoga, martial arts and fitness classes
- Three classrooms for sports science where we offer both GCSE and BTEC
- Four large changing rooms