PE
Woodfield academy is a place where our day-to-day mission is to ignite a passion to learn and a desire to succeed in an environment that nurtures all.’
It is a place where learners are taught, to make informed choices and to be responsible for their own actions, through the teaching of our curriculum and four core values: Compassion, Respect, Resilience and Responsibility.
At Woodfield Academy, we recognise the importance of PE and the role it must play in promoting long term, healthy lifestyles and making a positive impact on physical, mental and social health. Our high-quality Physical Education curriculum aims to inspire all pupils to develop a love of movement and to be physically active. The curriculum is specifically planned to provide opportunities for all pupils to succeed and excel in competitive sport and other physically demanding activities. It is structured to provide developmental opportunities for pupils to become physically confident in a way which supports their health and fitness. The curriculum enables pupils to reflect on their learning and provides opportunities to improve themselves and provide feedback to their peers.
We believe that sport and other physical activities build character and help to develop and promote our school rules and values: compassion, respect, resilience, and responsibility.
During the four years pupils are with us, we strive to ensure that pupils develop their competence to excel in a broad range of physical activities as well as developing their ability to be physically active for sustained periods of time. We engage all pupils in competitive sports and activities and encourage our pupils to lead healthy, active lives both in and out of school, as well as equipping pupils with the knowledge of the long-term health benefits surrounding physical activity.
Our curriculum is entwined with intellectual and physical challenges which provide opportunities for our pupils to work as a team, build trust and develop their problem-solving skills. We provide enrichment events and activities which help develop the child as a whole and inspires students to share social and physical challenges with peers and staff. The events have cross curricular links which utilises PE and sport as a vehicle to encourage enthusiasm of learning in different subjects.
We encourage and offer opportunities that are cross curricular throughout our curriculum. We have various initiatives throughout the academic year that focus on improving literacy and numeracy in PE.
Our extra-curricular programme is available for all pupils to attend on a competitive and social basis. There are local competitions and tournaments in a wide range of sports and activities which our academy attends and competes. Pupils represent the school locally, regionally, and nationally in various sporting activities. Woodfield Academy provides opportunities through links and contacts for pupils to develop into local clubs and teams.
Woodfield Academy’s Sports Leadership award allows Year 8 pupils to lead events and activities in and out of school. Sports leaders organise and facilitate KS2 events and activities in school. They also lead and support local first school children to participate in events, activities and competitions. They coach and facilitate Woodfield Academy pupils who attend the PESSCO events. The award develops our older pupils to coach, organise, manage, care for, be responsible, be respectful and have a sense of belonging.
At Woodfield we invest time into PESSCO events which offers opportunities to pupils with SEND and pupils with low self confidence and self-esteem. The pupils attend events, competitions, sporting workshops and enrichment opportunities to support their physical, mental, and social development.
We are lucky to be able to offer identified SEND students and those with low confidence an opportunity to work within additional Sports sessions. This helps to increase their confidence and ability in Sport which then benefits them greatly in their timetabled PE lessons.
Through both key stages we offer a wide range of opportunities to visit outdoor educational centres. The pupils will face challenges and experiences that would not be obtainable in school. They take part in a wide variety of outdoor activities that focus on building confidence, skills, teamwork, communication, good health, and independence.
We also provide opportunities for our most socially and emotionally challenged and vulnerable children to work with the police and local authorities through sport and PE.
“The more difficult the victory, the greater the winning”. Pele