Broadlea Primary School

Sport

P.E and Sport Vision

At Broadlea Primary School, our aim is to promote a healthy, active lifestyle as well as encouraging a lifelong participation in sport. P.E. and sport contributes significantly to the development of children’s lives at Broadlea, with physical activity playing an important role in building children’s social, teamwork and leadership skills - attributes that will be carried forward with them to adult life.

We achieved the School Games Platinum Mark Award in the 2023/24 academic year and are delighted to have been recognised for our success. The School Games Mark is a Government-led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community.

P.E Lessons

Fun, active and engaging lessons are the three key aspects of the P.E. curriculum at Broadlea. Over the course of the year, children will take part in a range of different activities and sports, including less traditional sports such as dodgeball and golf. P.E. staff actively promote physical activity opportunities outside of schools in the hope of promoting a lifelong interest and participation in sport. The school’s P.E teachers aim to challenge pupils during lessons as well as providing opportunities for children to develop their leadership skills.

Extra-Curricular Activities

At Broadlea, we offer pupils an extensive program of after-school sports club throughout the year. Our provision features traditional clubs, arranged in coordination with the Isle of Wight’s Primary School Sports Program, as well as less traditional recreational and action sports such as kurling and rowing. Clubs are arranged to provide children with the opportunity to try new sports for the first time.

These sports and physical activities typically feature within our after-school club program across the year: Tag Rugby; Football; Indoor Athletics; Cross Country; Dance; Basketball; Fitness; C4L Club; Athletics; Cricket; Rounders; Handball: Kurling.

Year 5/6 Tag Rugby Island Champions - Gold medallists 2018/19

Sports Fixtures

In addition to our after-school sports club program, the school also offers children the opportunity to take part in a wide range of sports fixtures throughout the academic year. We provide a range of activities, with the hope that every child will represent the school in a sports fixture by the time they leave.

The school enters competitive fixtures organised by the Island’s School Games Organisers, such as football and cricket league and cup competitions. Local cluster competitions for sports including tag rugby, hockey, handball and basketball lead on to the Island Finals, where teams then compete for a place to represent the Isle of Wight at the Hampshire Games. In addition to these competitions, the school enters sporting festivals and arranges friendly matches for different sports across year.

During local cluster competitions, several teams are entered to give as many children as possible the chance to represent the school. We are fortunate to have excellent sport facilities at Broadlea with a large field, playground and hall. This has enabled us to host several competitions for other schools over the course of the year, including: Quad Kids Athletics, Tag Rugby, Sitting Volleyball and Triathlon competitions. Broadlea also hosts mini football, cricket and netball tournaments.

Links have also been formed within the local community that enable children from Broadlea to experience different sports, these include using the athletics track at Sandown, facilities at Shanklin Rowing Club, the climbing wall in Freshwater and the cricket ground at Shanklin.

Sporting Success

2023/24

U-11 Girls Island Football League Final - Silver Medallists

Year 6 Basketball Competition - Semi-Finalist

Year 5/6 Tag Rugby Competition - Semi-Finalist

Year 3/4 Dodgeball Festival – Winners

Year 3/4 Sportshall Athletics - Bronze Medallists

Year 5/6 Sportshall Athletics - 4th Place

Year 3/4 Cross Country Relay - Bronze Medallists

Year 5/6 Cross Country Relay - Bronze Medallists

Year 3/4/5/6 Individual Cross Country - Gold, Silver & Bronze Medallists

Year 5/6 Island Hockey Competition - 4th Place

Dance Live - Technical and Creative Achievement Award

2022/23

Year 3/4 Basketball Finals - Gold medallists

U-11 Island Incrediball Cricket - Bronze medallists

Year 3/4 Quad Kids - Bronze medallists

U-11 Boys Football League Semi-Finalists

Year 3/4 Girls Individual Cross Country - Silver medallists

Sports Leaders

Each year ten children from Year 5/6 are selected to become a Sports Leader and to be part of the school’s Sports Council.

Our Sports Leaders play an active role in school P.E and sport. They organise and run sports competitions for local schools. Over the past few years this has included: Year 2 Athletics, Year 3/4 Sitting Volleyball, Year 5/6 Sitting Volleyball and KS2 Triathlon competitions.

Sports Leaders also run and manage inter-house competitions after and during school, giving every child the opportunity to compete for their house. This year, inter-house events have included Cross Country, Benchball, Dodgeball, Rounders and Rowing.

The Sports Leaders meet regularly to discuss improvements to school sport. Being a Sports Leader helps to develop leadership skills and gives children an important responsibility within school life. It also gives children the opportunity to experience what a potential job in the sports industry might be like and is a role that may be mentioned on a future university application form!