At Churchside, we believe it is important to give children as many opportunities as possible to be active and develop healthy lifestyles. As well as PE lessons twice a week, classes take part in the Daily Mile: a short daily run (or walk!) where the children try to improve their personal best. We also try to incorporate opportunities to get moving and get outside into other lessons across the curriculum. Both schools have extensive grounds, with toys and equipment to encourage children to be active in their playtimes too. These include trim trails, tyre park, adventure playground and outdoor gym equipment as well as ample field and playground space for a variety of games. Lunchtime and after-school clubs, house competitions within school, and school games events competing against other schools give our children further opportunities to enjoy sport.
Physical Education – SMSC development is actively promoted through PE by:-
- Activities involving co-operation, teamwork, competition, rules, self-discipline and fair play.
- Exploring the sports and traditions of a variety of cultures.
- Individual activities that provide the opportunity for self-reflection and challenge.
We aim to provide two PE lessons a week. The long-term plan ensures that throughout primary school the children get to try a wide variety of sports, while also ensuring sufficient time to improve and progress their skills within specific areas. Children will take part in different sports and games as well as gymnastics, dance and orienteering activities. If a child is physically unable to take part, they are still encouraged to be involved in the lesson – e.g. acting as a scorer or umpire for a game or observing their peers and suggesting ways to improve.
Throughout the year we offer a range of different clubs both at lunchtimes and after school – these are organised either by school staff or through local partnerships. From street dance to rugby, gymnastics to archery – we hope there is something to appeal to everyone. Please refer to the newsletter for each respective school to see what is currently running and (for after-school activities) how to book.
We also hold house competitions and an annual sports day at each school. There are three houses at Gooderstone and four at Mundford. The house competitions encourage teamwork and give our children a chance to take part in competitive sport, as well as allowing our older pupils to develop their leadership skills.
We regularly compete in school games events, organised by the Breckland School Sports Partnership. The first round involves competing against schools in our local cluster, with the winning team(s) progressing to compete at area and then county level.
Since 2013, the Government has provided additional funding to schools to support the improvement and provision of PE and sport. The aim of this is to encourage primary-aged pupils to develop healthy, active lifestyles. The money must be used to develop the activities the school offers, build capacity and fund sustainable improvements that will benefit pupils joining the school in future years as well as those there currently.
More information on how each school has spent the premium and its impact can be found here:
The whole of Mundford had the pleasure of Sean and Thomas from Grey Goose Archery, teaching us how to shoot some arrows. We had lots of turns, played games and a few children even hit the yellow in the centre of the target. Key Stage two were the first up in the morning and in the afternoon smaller bows were used for Key Stage one. We all had a brilliant time.
On Wednesday a group of Year 5’s and 6’s went to the local Breckland School Sports Partnership Tag Rugby tournament. On a very hot day, they played 6 matches, winning five and drawing one – being undefeated all day. They came second overall only by tries scored.
Aaron from Norfolk County cricket came and delivered some cricket training sessions across all year groups! The children really enjoyed themselves and learnt lots of new skills from batting to fielding!
Cross Country Finals
On Thursday 28th November, five children from Mundford took part in the country cross country finals, held at Langley Prep School in Norwich. They all did brilliantly and represented our school to the best of their abilities against some county standard runners! Vinnie (Year 6), Stanley (Year 5), Indi (Year 4), Tommy and Sonnie (Year 3) all go through from the local competition held in October. Well done!
Thirteen girls combined from both Gooderstone and Mundford attended a football development morning at Thetford Leisure Centre, lead by the Breckland School Sports Partnership and Thetford Academy leaders. The girls learned some different skills and played games to help them to develop their football skills. This will hopefully lead into playing in a tournament in February!
Northwold Football Tournament
On Wednesday 12th June, 18 budding footballers took to the annual Northwold Football Tournament, playing against local schools. Mundford Blues team won their group and went into the semi-finals, but unfortunately lost 1-0. Mundford Yellows played some brilliant football and scored some fantastic goals and came 3rd in their group.
All children we took were absolutely fantastic and were incredibly supportive of each other and other teams.
On Wednesday 6th March 2024, 24 children from across Churchside went to a Tag Rugby development day at Wayland Academy in Watton.
They played several games against other schools and each other, learning about the game and the rules of Tag Rugby. They all had a great day and plenty of tries were scored!
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