The education we offer is to enable young people to have not only the knowledge but also the attitudes, values and characteristics that will enable them to flourish in an ever-changing and demanding world. The education we offer goes beyond the purely academic. It must enable our young people to discover their unique place in the world, their God-given purpose; to realise their potential in the knowledge that the world is a poorer place without them.

“Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9

As part of the legacy of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, schools in Britain have received substantial funding. At Green Haworth, we will be using this funding for the following purposes:

• To give our children free access to a wide range of sports and healthy activities through P.E and after-school clubs.

• To provide county-wide competition in a range of sports.

• To ensure that children of all ages experience competition against other schools in the borough.

• To utilise high-quality facilities that we would not normally be able to access.

• To train staff to a high level of coaching so there is sustainability beyond having access to Legacy funding.

• To help children make positive decisions regarding healthy lifestyles.

All young people should have the opportunity to live healthy and active lives; to live life in all its fullness!

A positive experience of sport and physical activity at a young age can build a lifetime habit of participation and is central to meeting the government’s ambitions for a world-class education system.

Physical activity has numerous benefits for children and young people’s physical health, as well as their mental wellbeing (increasing self-esteem and emotional wellbeing and lowering anxiety and depression), and children who are physically active are happier, more resilient and more trusting of their peers. Ensuring that pupils have access to sufficient daily activity can also have wider benefits for pupils and schools, improving behaviour as well as enhancing academic achievement.

How schools should use the PE and sport premium

Schools must use the funding to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of the PE, physical activity and sport they provide. This includes any carried forward funding.

This means that you must use the PE and sport premium to:

• develop or add to the PE, physical activity and sport that your school provides
• build capacity and capability within the school to ensure that improvements made now are sustainable and will benefit pupils joining the school in future years

You should use the PE and sport premium to secure improvements in the following 5 key indicators.

Engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity, for example by:

• providing targeted activities or support to involve and encourage the least active children
• encouraging active play during break times and lunchtimes
• establishing, extending or funding attendance of school sports clubs and activities and holiday clubs, or broadening the variety offered
• adopting an active mile initiative
• raising attainment in primary school swimming to meet requirements of the national curriculum before the end of key stage 2 - every child should leave primary school able to swim

The profile of PE and sport is raised across the school as a tool for whole-school improvement, for example by:

• actively encourage pupils to take on leadership or volunteer roles that support the delivery of sport and physical activity within the school (such as ‘sports leader’ or peer-mentoring schemes)
• embedding physical activity into the school day through encouraging active travel to and from school, active break times and holding active lessons and teaching

Increased confidence, knowledge and skills of all staff in teaching PE and sport, for example by:

• providing staff with professional development, mentoring, appropriate training and resources to help them teach PE and sport more effectively to all pupils, and embed physical activity across your school
• hiring qualified sports coaches and PE specialists to work alongside teachers to enhance or extend current opportunities offered to pupils - teachers should learn from coaches the necessary skills to be able to teach these new sports and physical activities effectively

Broader experience of a range of sports and physical activities offered to all pupils, for example by:

• introducing a new range of sports and physical activities to encourage more pupils to take up sport and physical activities
• partnering with other schools to run sports and physical activities and clubs
• providing more and broadening the variety of extra-curricular physical activities after school in the 3 to 6pm window, delivered by the school or other local sports organisations

Increased participation in competitive sport, for example by:

• increasing and actively encouraging pupils’ participation in the School Games
• organising more sport competitions or tournaments within the school
• coordinating and entering more sport competitions or tournaments across the local area, including those run by sporting organisations

Swimming

At Green Haworth, we feel it is important that we provide all our Key Stage Two children with the opportunity to go swimming and learn vital water safety skills.

Autumn Term: Class 3 go swimming once a week to Hyndburn Leisure Centre

Summer Term: Class 2 go swimming once a week to Hyndburn Leisure Centre

Schools are required to publish how many Year 6 pupils have met the national curriculum requirements relating to swimming and water safety:

National Curriculum requirements for swimming and water safety:

• swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
• use a range of strokes effectively
• perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations.

2024-2025

100% of children are able to swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres.

100% of children are able to use a range of strokes effectively

100% of children or 80 % of children are able to perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations

Click on the icon above to access a database of local sports clubs that support provision for primary aged children in a range of sports across Hyndburn and Ribble Valley. The document includes training dates and contact details.

School Sports Crew

Our School Sports Organising Crew are a group of children who have been selected to support the organising of the Sainsbury's School Games. They help to organise and officiate at the end of term Interschool competitions. They have also lead fitness testing across the school which will be repeated each term. The School Sports Organising Crew also work like the school council and they can put forward ideas for how we can improve PE and opportunities for sport in our school.

We will soon be adding new members to the School Sports Crew to replace the Year 6 members that have left. See Mrs Gleadhill if you are interested.

DANCE

Katie is a dance teacher who teaches at Accrington Academy. Through the School Sports Partnership we are lucky to be able to have her teach in our school for half a term.

She is spending one lesson a week with both Class 1 and Class 2.

Here are some photos from her first session with Class 2.

Gymnastics

Class 1 and 2 are currently benefitting from a Gymnastics coach who teaches at a local high school and also runs her own gymnastics club! Toni will be teaching a lesson a week until February half term. Here are some photos from her first lesson with class 2 when they worked on building strength, balancing and position.

School Sports Crew

Our School Sports Organising Crew are a group of children who have been selected to support the organising of the Sainsbury's School Games. They help to organise and officiate at the end of term Interschool competitions. They have also lead fitness testing across the school which will be repeated each term. The School Sports Organising Crew also work like the school council and they can put forward ideas for how we can improve PE and opportunities for sport in our school.

The School Sports Organising Crew are:

Evan, Harvey, Reece, Khubaib, Hasham

Sebastian, Courtney, Kaydee, Charley, Declan.

Small Schools Indoor Athletics Champions!

A team of Year 5 and 6 boys have recently won the Small Schools Indoor Athletics which took place at Hyndburn Leisure Centre. The competition consisted of several sprint relays, long jump, vertical standing jump and javelin. The boys performed particularly well in the sprints and, as you can see from the photos, thoroughly enjoyed themselves. 

Children from Class 1 had the opportunity to attend a 'Curling event' at Accrington Academy last night. The four children that were chosen made it to the semi-finals. They behaved impeccably and really enjoyed themselves. Well done, Violet, Caden, Shabaz and Archie! :)