Sport and Health

It's official - we have retained our Platinum Sports Award status!

We're one of only a handful of schools across Cheshire West and Chester who have achieved the highest level of award.

Our commitment to sporting activities and healthy lifestyles begins with the PE provision that is provided at the school from our specialist sports' teacher, Mr Coleclough. All children receive at least an hour of physical education a week from planned and sequenced lessons, building on the skills they have acquired over their time at Highfield. In addition, children are encouraged to join in structured activities at lunchtimes with our sports leaders and offered a range of before, during and after school clubs promoting healthy lifestyles. 

Being healthy isn't just about having a healthy body, it's also about having a healthy mind. All pupils are part of the My Happy Mind programme which teaches children to understand how their brain works, how to deal with stressful situations and how to use calming techniques. Positive mental health is every child's right.

PE

This year, PE days will be as follows:

Monday: Year 2 and Year 6

Tuesday: Reception

Wednesday: Year 4 and Year 3

Friday: Year 1 and Year 5

Children are to wear PE kit on their PE days. Each year group (apart from Year 1 and reception) will complete swimming for a 6 week period on a Friday afternoon over the year. Nursery Children will attend swimming lessons at Ashtree Nursery through out the year. 

Autumn 1 - Year 5

Autumn 2 - Year 4

Spring 1- Year 3 

Spring 2 - Year 2 

Summer 1 - Year 1 

Summer 2 - Top up Year 6

Clubs

We hope to provide all children here at Highfield Primary with the opportunity to take part in extracurricular sport and offer a wide range of clubs before, during and after school. 

If you would like, or have an interest in any other club that we currently do not provide please let Mr Bull know and he will do his best to include this in the future.  

For more information about any further clubs please contact the office for any details.

Competitions

At Highfield, we have always taken pride in our competitive spirit and our desire to do the best in everything we do.

Already this year, we plan to compete in yet more competitions across both BEV (Blacon competitions) and in SSP (Cheshire competitions) including Girls' Football, Football, Tag Rugby, Athletics, Basketball, Handball, Indoor Athletics and Y2 and Y1 multi skills development session to name a few.

Please see the attached list of competiitons which are open for us to enter.

Swimming

At Highfield Community Primary we are committed to ensuring swimming takes place in school. Swimming is a compulsory part of the current national curriculum for PE and therefore we ensure that children have access to it. 

At Highfield we believe pupils should be taught to swim unaided for a distance of at least 25 metres, using recognised strokes, on their front and back, and demonstrate an understanding of water safety. All pupils complete a 6 week swimming programme from Year 3 to Year 6. We also now provide swimming provision to pupils in Nursery to foster water confidence and start children on their swimming journey. 

We use the following facilities to facilitate our swimming programme:

Ellesmere Port Sports Village - Ellesmere Port, Stanney Lane, CH65 9LB

and

Ashtree Nursery, Blacon Point Road, Chester, CH1 5NF

Before children leave Highfield Community Primary, we try to ensure that all children can at least swim 25m. If children are unable to do this still in Year 6, then additional swimming lessons are provided for these students to enable them to reach this goal.

In 2022-23 all Key Stage Two pupils attended swimming lessons as well as Year 2 and nursery.

Year Six (32 Pupils) outcomes are listed below:
Swim/Travel 25m Front - 72%
Swim/Travel 25m Back – 78%
Perform a Range of Strokes – 59%
Self Rescue – 78%

Of the 13 children who did not manage to swim 25m after the initial assessment, 6 went on to complete additional top up swimming provision and passed.

Sports Ambassadors and Sports Crew

The role of a Sports Ambassadors empowers the children to take on the following roles:

• Be the voice for PE and school sport at Highfield
• Promote the positive values of sport.
• Be a role model and champion for PE and school sport.

At Highfield we have 6 Sports Ambassadors (Year 6), who play a fundamental role in the shaping and developing of our PE provision in school by helping to promote the positive values of sport, continue to be good role models in school and champion PE and activity.

These children are then supported by our Sports Crew, who are made up from two children from each year. 

This year, they will be responsible for:

- Gathering and understanding pupil voice about PE.

- Creating a display board to advertise and raise the profile of PE in school.

- Completing sports leadership training

- Organised and Implementing personal challenges to promote physical activity across the school.

- Supporting the running and officiating of clubs and competitions

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