Sport @ Birstwith 2023
Following on from a successful sporrts meeting with Belmont Grosvenor School, we have forged som strong links and an active interschool sporting calendar has been created. This week, Year 3 and 4 all met their Belmont counterparts and played their socks off, taking part in a Tag rugby festival. Mr Baird and myself worked with all the children teaching some basic skills and entered into a slightly competitive game. The sun shone, the smiles were huge and the cheeks were red at the end of it. A big thank you to Belmont for hosting and well done everyone for their fabulous efforts.
To end the term, the Year 6 children took the reception and Year 1 children outside and devised a series of challenges and sports that were pitched to their ability. The children had a fabulous time using loads of equipment, making up rules, organising and coaching. It was a great spectacle to see how caring and nurturing the Year 6 children were as they guided their groups through their challenges.
Be Active
Sport and being active is essential- even more so in the world that we are creating for our children to grow up in. At Birstwith, we strive to engage the children in a wide range of activites and sports that are based around the key fundamentals - Agility, Balance and Co-ordination. The children cover these aspects in each and every area of sport they are introduced to. The aim give the children an experience of a wide range of sport, instill a love for being active, teach children how to follow rules and adapt rules to make the games more achievable for everyone and allow children to develop their independent sport skills as well as their group/team sport skills. We work alongside some fabulous outside agencies to help promote excellence in sport either during normal school time or through after school clubs and competitions. We also have close links with local clubs too such as cricket and tennis.
For further information, please do not hestiate to contact me either directly or through school admin
Many thanks,
Richard Roy
To get you going, here are some links and challenges...
The children had a fantastic netball tournament against 4 other schools this term and it gives me great pleasure to say that Birstwith won all the games. They played really well- as did all the other teams- and it was wonderful to see all the children mixing, laughing and enjoying the tournament. Let's hope this is the start of a competitive year...
We have had the pleasure of Sporting Influence, the LTA and Harrogate Rugby club over the past few weeks. It has been incredible to see the engagement in sport and watch the development in skill and agility as the time has passed. Sporting Influence have done an incredible job providing after school sport, aimed at girls and also at our younger children. They have also run a progressive lunchtime sports programme for our Year 6s - preparing them for their transition into secondary school.
We all got involved in an intraschool dance competition which culminated in one team being selected to represent the school in an interschool comp. We also ran a football tournament in school where the children organised teams and competed in a round robin tournament.
In addition to this, the LTA returned and picked up their work with Class 3 and, Y6 had Aled Jones come in to improve their Tag rugby skills.
Loads of great sport, lots more to come, I have just secured some extra funding so we should be getting some new equipment too!!
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