Physical Education
"If your mind can concieve it and your heart can believe it- Then you can achieve it!"- Muhammed Ali
Sport at Swimbridge
All the staff, alongside Primary Stars deliver high quality PE provision to all of our children. At our school, Physical Education and Sport play an important role in ensuring that we offer the very best and enriched experiences to our children. PE is high focus within the school day but also in lunch-time provision and extra-curricular clubs.
Here at Swimbridge we never underestimate the importance of an active lifestyle. Despite our small school site, we aim to offer all children a breadth of sporting activities throughout their time at Swimbridge. Through providing children with rich and vibrant opportunities, across a range of locations around North Devon, we're able to ensure that there is something on offer for everyone. The school visits the Tarka Leisure Centre for swimming and tennis, Falcons for gymnastics and Westward Ho! beach in the summer term for surfing.
Our PE Curriculum
A wide range of PE is delivered to the pupils, which aims to engage and inspire and give the necessary skills and knowledge for healthy life-styles.
Sports taught are wide and varied, both during the school day, and as extra- curricular clubs. Opportunities include netball, hockey, tag-rugby, football, volley-ball, tennis and cross country. Swimbridge pupils use the fantastic facilities in the local village hall alongside the beautiful field in the valley as well as visiting offsite community resources such as Tarka Tennis, the Dojo at the Leisure Centre and Westward Ho! Beach for surfing lessons during the Summer term.
Participation is first and foremost which then leads to talent spotting and ensuring that those pupils with abilities can be extended. In addition, funds are used to employ a Specialist Sports Teacher to teach PE and this expertise is used across the school to teach pupils in EYFS, Key Stage One and Two in PE and Games and upskills Teachers and Learning Support Assistants.
As well as making use of these excellent facilities across our locality, the children at Swimbridge are also lucky enough to be able to use their school playground and field for sports such as netball, basketball, hockey, rounders and tag rugby amongst many others.
Swimming
Being a coastal school we highly value swimming as an essential life skill for our children. Lessons are held at our local lesiure centre from Year 3 upwards. Teaching consists of basic techniques using a range of swimming strokes and the children are taught to perform safe self-rescue in different water based situations. Leaving school being confident and proficient swimmers covering a distance at least of 25m.
Not only is swimming great for overall fitness, it's also an essential life skill which could one day be life-saving. We place a high priority on getting all children to be able swimmers by the time they finish Year 6, with all KS2 children attending swimming lessons during their school career.
Schools are required to publish how many Year 6 pupils have met the national curriculum requirements relating to swimming and water safety.
Our results for the 2022/23 academic year are:
100% could swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
95% could use a range of strokes effectively
100% could perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations
PE Rolling Provision.pdfSwimbridge PE Curriculum
skills-and-knowledge-progression (3).pdfPE Progression of Knowledge and Skills
PE-End-Points.pdfPE End Points
PRIMARY_national_curriculum_-_Physical_education.pdfSwimbridge_sports_document_improved.pdfPE Grant Strategy
The Daily Mile is an initiative at Swimbridge where children from Year 3,4,5 and 6 take part in a 15 minute social and physical activity in the fresh air. Children will need to have trainers in school to use during this session. Children will be encouraged to jog or run during the time focusing on boosting health and fitness.
Girls Football Event- Celebrating International Women's Day
PE/Forest School Event- Umberleigh School
Activity Residential- Years 5/6
Dartmoor
Tarka Tennis PE Sessions
Sports Day 2023
Surfing at Westward Ho!