Sport at Lenham Primary School
PE aims and objectives:
- to ensure Sports Premium has an impact on the achievement of pupils
- to increase the profile of, and engagement with PE through providing a range of enrichment activities
- to ensure the curriculum allows the children to progress their skills, both within their year and from one year to the next
- to ensure equal access to PE for children of all abilities
We really value sport at Lenham Primary School and try to provide the children with as much exercise as we can through after school clubs, morning exercise and PE lessons. Mrs Martin our PE leader works hard to organise clubs with Mrs Prescott, so that we can enter school sports competitions.
We currently start everyday with 10 minutes of Zumba (or daily mile on the field) altogether on the playground, led by Mrs McCluskey and the Zumba Leaders.
Every class has 2 PE sessions a week and we offer a variety of after school clubs (basketball, netball, benchball, Zumba, football) provided by staff and outside providers.
We also receive Sport Premium from the government to help improve the sports opportunities we provide.
Lenham Primary School's Sports Premium
What is sports premium?
The government has chosen to invest in Primary School Physical Education and School Sport. They have done this by offering each primary school £16,000.00 plus £10.00 per pupil to be spent in any way the school thinks best to improve the teaching and learning of PE and School Sport in their individual school. We receive £ 17829.60.in total.
How we are using it at Lenham Primary School?
We have used the funding at Lenham Primary School to ensure that children benefit from more experienced and qualified teachers and instructors during their PE lessons. This has included buying in training and support for teachers. This also enables us access to some of their equipment and facilities to try new sports.
Some of the funding has been used to buy new equipment to encourage activities during PE, play times and after school clubs.
See below at how we have spent our funding and the impact it has had. (Sports Premium Funding documents)
Team Theme
We are very pleased that Coach Sammy from Team Theme is staying with us for another year. We are funding his expertise from our Sports Premium funding for 2024-25. The Coach Sammy will be delivering lessons alongside the class teachers and you should check out our Twitter for regular updates on lessons across the school!
Sammy is also running afterschool sports clubs twice a week -keep an eye on the weekly bulletin for which year groups and which sports so you don't miss your chance to take part!
This year we are using our Sports Premium to give children experiences they wouldn't normally get, going outside the normal PE curriculum, as well as providing after school clubs and lunchtime activities. See our plan below.
We are aiming to provide as many opportunities as possible for the children to take part in competitive activities within school and against other schools.
Competitive activities are great for learning to: play as part of a team, manage nerves, cope with losing as well as winning, play by rules.
Competing in a team can also help to build self esteem and it encourages children to put in best effort.
To find out about swimming please see the last academic Sport Premium Funding below.
Events at Lenham Primary
We celebrated Steadman winning our final inter-house competition of cricket. Thank you Coach Sammy for organising it.
Year 6 were very lucky to meet George Elokobi, the manager of Maidstone United Football Team. George has a mantra- To be a good player, you have to be a good person first. He encourages his team to show all our PRIDE values.
Games Mark
We are delighted to announce that we, Lenham Primary School, have achieved the School Games Gold Mark Award for the 2023/24 academic year.
The School Games Mark is a Government-led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community, and we are delighted to have been recognised for our success.
Our sporting achievements this year include:
* After School Clubs
* Taking part in competitions
* Linking with local schools to complete sport
* Inter-house competitions
With a total of young people competing in local inter-school competitions this year, we are extremely proud of our pupils for their dedication to all aspects of school sport, including those young volunteers, leaders and officials who made our competitions possible.
As part of our application, we were asked to fulfil criteria in the areas of participation, competition, workforce and clubs, and we are pleased that the hard work of everyone at our school has been rewarded this year.
We look forward to applying once again in 2025!
Rebekah Green and Jess Roper
Becky put each class through our paces and spoke to us about the importance of fitness and a healthy life.
We have been lucky enough to meet two inspirational female althletes.
Jess Roper began kickboxing at 19, and she took her own small steps towards an almost impossible dream, in a tough and male-dominated sport, by overcoming the losses and learning to perform under pressure, to become a champion. Since retiring from fighting, her focus has been on supporting young people to become the best they can be, encouraging empowered action, increasing aspirations, educating on health and wellbeing, and raising resilience!
Rebekah Green is freestyle kayaking GB team member. She spoke to the children about finding a sport you love and working hard to be the best.
We are excited to announce that Lenham Primary will enriching the children's knowledge and support for our school and Olympic P.R.I.D.E values, by joining Team GB and their Path to Paris!
The children will be logging their activity on their class team and helping our school to log 'miles' which will take us around the world on the way to the next Olympics in Paris 2024
Families -you can take part too, look out for the launch details coming home soon!