Great Torrington Bluecoat C of E Primary School is delighted to announce that they have achieved the School Games Gold Mark Award for the 2018/19 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.
The school offers a varied and strong sports programme, including:
• A comprehensive tracking system allowing the school to target all young people (pupils less active, pupil premium, SEND) with school sport opportunities and actively encourage them to take part in physical activity.
• Two and a half hours of timetabled PE per week (within the curriculum only) for all pupils plus additional 15 minutes per day of ‘physical blast’.
• Extracurricular sporting activity accessed by, on average, just over 80% of pupils.
• A strong understanding of and high aspirations for less active young pupils.
• A strong competition calendar for all pupils. During 2018/19, the school took part in 13 and 6 School Games formats at intra-school and inter-school level respectively, as well as providing a number of personal challenges throughout the year. The school also provided opportunities through interschool for young people to participate in B and C team standard competition in 3 School Games formats.
• Strong emphasis on engaging pupils in leading, managing and officiating School Games activity. During 2018/19, all KS2 students (100%) were actively engaged in intra-school sport leadership. The ethos of High 5 netball (leading, coaching, officiating etc) has been applied to other sports in order to train young people in leading, managing and officiating. The schools Play Leader also promotes health & wellbeing, lead break/lunch-time activity and support sport for all.
• Sports Ambassadors take on the role of the ‘sports crew’ and meet every half-term and all have individual roles and responsibilities to support the planning and development of School Games.
• External coaches, clubs and leisure providers support the delivery of school sport and physical activity through a range of opportunities for young people. In addition, the school has established active links with several local community sports clubs/providers; 15 as a signposting function and 10 formalised links where the school has regular communication with them.
• Strong CPD opportunities. During 2018/19, three teaching assistants completed a 10 week level 5 PE specialism training course and there is a strong ethos of learning from each other within school. The Devon School Games and local SSCO offer provides additional CPD which the school accesses at events/festivals.
• Engagement with Facebook and Twitter, promoting all the aspects of their School Games activity regularly, supplemented by school sport updates in parent mail.
• Two and a half hours of timetabled PE per week (within the curriculum only) for all pupils plus additional 15 minutes per day of ‘physical blast’.
• Extracurricular sporting activity accessed by, on average, just over 80% of pupils.
• A strong understanding of and high aspirations for less active young pupils.
• A strong competition calendar for all pupils. During 2018/19, the school took part in 13 and 6 School Games formats at intra-school and inter-school level respectively, as well as providing a number of personal challenges throughout the year. The school also provided opportunities through interschool for young people to participate in B and C team standard competition in 3 School Games formats.
• Strong emphasis on engaging pupils in leading, managing and officiating School Games activity. During 2018/19, all KS2 students (100%) were actively engaged in intra-school sport leadership. The ethos of High 5 netball (leading, coaching, officiating etc) has been applied to other sports in order to train young people in leading, managing and officiating. The schools Play Leader also promotes health & wellbeing, lead break/lunch-time activity and support sport for all.
• Sports Ambassadors take on the role of the ‘sports crew’ and meet every half-term and all have individual roles and responsibilities to support the planning and development of School Games.
• External coaches, clubs and leisure providers support the delivery of school sport and physical activity through a range of opportunities for young people. In addition, the school has established active links with several local community sports clubs/providers; 15 as a signposting function and 10 formalised links where the school has regular communication with them.
• Strong CPD opportunities. During 2018/19, three teaching assistants completed a 10 week level 5 PE specialism training course and there is a strong ethos of learning from each other within school. The Devon School Games and local SSCO offer provides additional CPD which the school accesses at events/festivals.
• Engagement with Facebook and Twitter, promoting all the aspects of their School Games activity regularly, supplemented by school sport updates in parent mail.
Kari Gibbons, teacher and Sports Lead at Bluecoat commented “With a huge amount 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”.
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