PE, Physical Activity and School Sport

'Better movers make better thinkers. Better movers make better learners.'

Our Aims

• To encourage children to be physically active,
• To enable children to participate in both individual and team activities, developing good sporting behaviour,
• To enable children to be proud of their achievements and always strive for their personal best,
• To encourage children to experience a wide range of activities and develop skills that can be further developed in later life,
• To develop an understanding of the advantages of regular physical exercise in maintaining a healthy lifestyle,
• To expose children to a range of sporting activities.

Children receive a minimum of two hours curriculum provision per week. The curriculum sessions are taken by class teachers; this ensures quality of delivery with a range of sporting opportunities delivered throughout the year in all year groups.
We have a wide range of after school sports clubs for the children. Please see the clubs section of the website for more information: https://www.bottesfordinfants.co.uk/clubs/.

Get Ahead

We are committed to improving PE and school sport for our children. We are a proud member of the Get Ahead Partnership and work closely with them to improve every child's experience of PE (curriculum), to increase opportunities for competition against selves and others, increase physical activity for all young people and encourage a healthy lifestyle. Matt is our Physical Activity Mentor and is in school every Friday, helping us to be the healthiest, happiest school we can be. Matt works with groups of children throughout the afternoon, including our Sports Leaders - please see https://www.bottesfordinfants.co.uk/sports-leaders/ for more information. 

During 2018-2019 we took part in the 'Let's Get Healthy' journey with Get Ahead. Our Health Improvement Co-ordinator, Miss Borrie, worked with Miss Parker throughout the year. Here are some of the things she supported us with:

• Worked alongside Miss Parker to launch 'Walking Wednesday' and 'Fitness Friday' to develop active travel.
• Worked alongside our breakfast club facility to develop healthy choices and train up children from the Junior School to lead active games. 
• Worked with children in Year 2 to develop the Junior Lunchtime Supervisor role.
• Led a 'Let's Get Healthy' cafe at our Parent Consultation afternoon. 
• Sold festive fruit kebabs and summer fruit cups at our Christmas/Summer Fayres to ensure they were our healthiest fayres yet! 

PE and Sport Premium

We are very proud of how fit and healthy our children are, as they already have so many opportunities at our school to take part in daily physical activity and learn about healthy lifestyles. We aim to make our provision even better using the School Sports Premium. Please see the Sports Premium section of the website for more information: https://www.bottesfordinfants.co.uk/sports-premium/.

For more information please ask to see our floorbooks!

On 27th March 2019 we held our first #bottesfordcolourrun with Get Ahead; a sponsored community event with Bottesford Junior School and our families. The event was hugely successful, and very colourful!

Here's some of the amazing feedback we received:

• "What a fantastically organised event. Jacob had so much fun. Thank-you Bottesford for our first colour run experience."
• "Would just like to say a massive thankyou and well done to all involved in organising today's colour run. Such a fab event and a lot of fun."
• "A huge thank you to everyone for organising the fantastic colour run! Harry enjoyed it so much that he has asked me to find another colour run for him to take part in! He has also decided that he would like to run more often. It was brilliant to watch too!" 

2017-2018

What a wonderful year it was! Please see the photo slideshows below to see all of the active things we have been up to! 

2016-2017

• Scunthorpe United's Neal Bishop came in to inspire the children in Red and Orange class during their Sports Week!

• The School Sport Network provided us with lots of sporting activities and events including 'skip4life' and 'It's catching!'.

• We launched our summer term projects with a huge MOVE IT! whole school project launch week! Danny and the amazing sports leaders from Bottesford Juniors helped us to run a whole week of sporting activities including Athletics, Boccia, Curling, Football and a Fun Run. The winning class were BLUE class with a total of 128 points! 

• Danny and Helena from the School Sport Network came in to talk to us about being 'A Healthy Me'. We held a class competition to see which class could collect the most healthy food packets... the winning class were Orange class!

• Owen from the School Sport Network came in to deliver Athletics CPD for all of our teachers. 

Please see photo slideshows below to see all of the amazing things we have been up to!