Abbotswood Primary School
Together We Aim High, Believe and Achieve
PE and Sport Premium
Being an Athlete
Intent
At Abbotswood, our vision is to provide engaging opportunities for children to experience high quality Physical Education and school sport through personal challenge and competition that will lead to life-long participation.
PE plays a vital role in promoting physical activities and a healthy lifestyle in a positive and enjoyable way for all pupils. Our curriculum aims to develop and challenge pupils’ abilities in a range of physical activities and sports – helping them to develop their personal fitness, understand the importance of a healthy lifestyle and learn important life skills such as teamwork, honesty and perseverance.
Implementation
Abbotswood, we achieve the target of two hours of taught PE a week.
We currently use PE Planning as our stimuli for PE lessons. The scheme covers all areas of the National Curriculum and ensures that there is progression of skills throughout each sport/unit which are developed as the children progress through the school. Pupils at Abbotswood are therefore given the chance to develop their fundamental skills across a whole range of sports, including: Dance, Gymnastics, Athletics and Tag Rugby to name a few.
At Abbotswood, we also work in partnership with Bristol Forever Sports, whose specialist sports coaches teach PE sessions for three afternoons a week. This allows the children the opportunity to be exposed to new sports, taught by specialised teachers, as well as providing continued professional development for teachers. The after school sessions organised by the coaches are also extremely popular, meaning our children get the chance to experience new sports outside of the classroom too. They are also given lots of opportunities to take part in various competitions against other schools, led by Bristol Sport, during their time at Abbotswood - we've even been lucky enough to host a few on our school grounds too!
We are also a member of the CSET partnership, whereby qualified coaches offer CPD for staff, carry out fundamental skills tests across the year groups and provide lots of opportunities for us to take part in local competitions.
As of July 2023, we have consistently been awarded Gold as part of the School Games Mark, something that we have worked really hard to achieve through giving our children as many opportunities as possible to develop an interest in, and improve, their love of sports and PE. We're really proud to have achieved this recognition for the last two years!
Impact
At the end of each unit, we assess the children against the taught, fundamental skills for the sport they have been learning that term. Using our PE Planning scheme allows us to easily identify those children who have achieved the key learning for each unit.
Alongside our CSET coaches, we assess each child against fundamental agility skills. Using the results, we have then targeted invention for those who require it.
PE progression at Abbotswood
If you would like to find out more information about PE at Abbotswood, please contact Mrs Mehta-Jolliffe.
Please read the information below which gives details of our PE and Sport Premium Grant and how we allocate the funding, as well as our progression map of skills for each year group.
PE experiences at Abbotswood
Netball
On Wednesday 12th February, the Abbotswood netball team had their very first match of the season! It was a fast-paced game against Wick Primary, full of many incredible goals! The lead was back and forth all the way which made for a tense final few minutes. The eventual score was 8-7 to Wick, just before the final whistle. The team showed brilliant resilience and fantastic teamwork and communication throughout the whole game. We're really proud of how hard they fought, right up until the end.
This is the first of a handful of games coming up over the next couple of months.
Thank you to the parents who braved the bitterly cold conditions and showed their support.
Sportshall Athletics
Well done to the Year 6 Sportshall Athletics team who competed against a group of local schools at Yate Academy! This was their second Sportshall event of the year! They took part in a whole range of relays and field events, showcasing their teamwork, determination and enthusiasm. As you can see from the blurred pictures, they were incredibly speedy!
Thank you, as always, to the parents/carers for offering lifts and support from the side lines!
Sportshall Athletics
On Wednesday, a group Year 6s represented the school at an indoor athletics event at Mangotsfield Secondary School. They took part in a variety of track and field events against six other local schools. They all performed brilliantly in their chosen events, some of them even took on extra races on the night due to a shortage of team members!
They were all so supportive of one another and were highlighted by the coaches as showing great sportsmanship by shaking the hands of their competitors after every relay. After competing against some very experienced teams, Abbotswood finished in 4th place out of the seven schools overall!
Thank you so much to the parents who drove some of the team to and from the event and stayed to watch, it was very much appreciated.
Go Team Abbotswood!
Tag-rugby
Our Abbotswood rugby team competed amazingly in their first ever tag-rugby tournament. The team showed plenty of attacking threat and scored some brilliant tries. We are very blessed to have a great crop of Year 5 players who will learn a lot from these games and their Year 6 team mates. They showed great sportsmanship and patience in what turned out to be a hotly contested competition!
Bristol City Women Visit
Yesterday afternoon, Key Stage Two had a special visit from Ella Powell and Tianna Teisar from Bristol City Women! They spoke to us about the dedication and perseverance it takes to become a professional footballer, as well as what they enjoy most about their job. Thank you for spending your afternoon with us, we loved it! See you at Ashton Gate!
Abbotswood Football!
Yesterday, the girls team took part in the annual Gloucestershire Football Association schools tournament. We were placed in a tough group, but the girls battled to 1-1 draws against St Helen’s and Bromley Heath and lost 1-0 to both St Barnabus and the eventual group winners Raysfield.
Well done in particular to our goal scorers and the girls who volunteered to go in goal. Every girl played their part in what was a brilliant morning full of effort and perseverance.
Abbotswood awarded GOLD in the School Games mark for our PE and sports provision for the second year in a row!
Go Team Abbotswood!
Tag Rugby at Dings
CSET training with Year 5 and 6
Sports' Week
We have had such a busy week, full of different activities each day to reach our 60 minutes of physical activity! Here are just a few photos of what we have been up to!
Sports' day
We brought our bikes and scooters in and rode around the school field and playground!
We had cricket taster sessions from Gloucester cricket!
Athletic Agility
Years 1-4 have had visits from our CSET coaches, Alex and Dean, to test our athletic abilities. We carried out a range of tasks including balance beam, throwing a weighted ball, speed bounce among others!
CSET Sports Leaders
Groups of children from each Key Stage Two class were chosen to be their year group’s Sports Leaders. They took part in training with Alex and Dean, our CSET coaches, to learn about and understand the importance of warm ups. The children were taught the acronym STEP (Space, Task, Equipment, People) and how to plan their own warm up games! They then demonstrated their skills by showing their class what they had learned. We are hoping that there will be plenty of opportunities for the Sports Leaders to organise competitions between year groups when we are allowed to mix bubbles!
CSET Cross Country
All year groups took part over a couple of weeks and worked in small teams to complete laps of the cross country course. We all had such a great time and definitely approved our pacing skills each week! The results are in and Abbotswood placed an amazing 5th out of all of the local schools who took part and completing 167 miles! A great achievement, well done everyone!
Abbotswood 7 - 0 Filton Avenue
On a chilly March Monday evening, Abbotswood welcomed Filton Avenue Primary to the Abbotswood Arena. The pitch was in fine condition after our prolonged winter break and the children were keen to get back in action.
The game kicked off and Abbotswood controlled the early phases of the game, moving the ball well across the pitch (avoiding the boggiest patches) and holding their shape well in defence. Oliver Ball made an accomplished start and made a few crucial tackles, stopping some early Filton attacks. It was not long before Abbotswood’s possession, positional play and clinical movement off the ball began to pay dividends, and the team found gaps in the Filton defence.
The game finished with Connor Walters scoring five goals, as well as one goal apiece for Corey McKeigue and Harri Robinson. The whole team played well, especially Alfie Lawrence who had a quieter night in goal. However, when he was called upon, he produced two or three excellent saves, preserving his clean sheet. The Year 6’s in particular put in an excellent display, showing real leadership and encouraging the younger, less experienced members of the squad.
Team: Connor Walters (c), Alfie Lawrence (GK), Archie Edwards (c), Oliver Ball (c), Leo Salter,
Harri Robinson, Harry Fews, Corey McKeigue, Sam Hayden, Lacey Rixon.
Our next game will be on Monday 9th March, also against Filton Avenue. We hope to see as many people as possible supporting the team!
Festival of Youth Sport Dance
On Wednesday 12th February, Miss Jones took a group of Year 3 and 4 children to Abbeywood Community School to compete in the annual Festival of Youth Dance. Mr Jelf and Miss Jolliffe were in the crowd and were amazed at how quickly the children had picked up the routine and how well they worked together. It was incredible to see them enjoying themselves and showing all of our school values! They were a credit to the school and their parents!
Mr Jelf managed to sneak a photograph from the back of the auditorium.
English School's South Gloucestershire Cup.
Abbotswood Make Semis For First Time!
On Thursday 7th November, the Abbotswood boys football squad headed to Almondsbury for the annual English Schools competition. The last time we were at the tournament, we lost every game, only scoring one goal.
During the group games, the boys managed to scrap out a 0-0 draw against St Stephens, who were semi finalists last year, and probably should have won the game with an excellent midfield performance from Riley Webb. In our second game, we defeated Filton Orchard 3-0, although it could easily have been more, with Connor Walters scoring a hat-trick. Our third group game was against another regular winner of football tournaments across South Gloucestershire – Bromley Heath. Somehow, the boys managed to score a brilliant team goal early on and then, with huge thanks to Alfie Lawrence in goal, managed to cling on to the 1-0 win. We finished the group by beating St Michael’s 3-0, with Harri Robinson putting in an incredible performance on the right of midfield.
We were into the quarter finals – unchartered territory. We were drawn against Blackhorse Primary and, after a hard fought 0-0 with Harry Fews and Oliver Ball defending with their lives, we entered extra-time and eventually – penalties. We scored all three of our penalties, with Max May scoring the match winning spot kick.
Semi finals! Unfortunately, this is where the journey ended with our boys coming up a little short, quite literally, against a giant Hanham Abbots team. Hanham Abbots have won the entire tournament a record amount of times in the past ten years.
We look forward to meeting them again in the Schools Cup in a few week’s time, with a stronger squad and an extra incentive.
Squad:
Alfie Lawrence – GK Oliver Ball
Harry Fews Max May
Riley Webb Harri Robinson
Connor Walters (C) Corey McKeigue
South Gloucestershire Tag Rugby Tournament
On the 22nd October, we took seventeen children to a tag rugby tournament at Aretians RFC. Some had played in tournaments before, whilst some were playing the game properly for the first time. The children were split into two teams.
Abbotswood A kicked off the tournament in style with a cracking 5-0 win over Little Stoke. Archie and Leo managed to bag two tries each, with Sam running in another for good measure. Millie was also unlucky and had a try overruled! In their second game, the grudge match against Wick, unfortunately the team came out second best, losing 3-2 with a last minute try. Leo and Finley managed to cross the try line for a try each. Phoebe managed to grab a load of tags and Holly Ann made some excellent yards, pushing the team up the field. In the team’s final game, Abbotswood faced up against St Chads. It was a much closer game and fortunately we ran out 5-3 winners. Archie, Sam, Ryley and Harry were the try scorers, whilst Finley was on a tagging mission against the other team.
Abbotswood B had to wait a while to begin the tournament – beating Holy Trinity 7-0. Four tries from Max and one each for Harri, Riley and Corey sealed the victory. Kyra led the team well and the team were ferocious in defence, keeping a rare clean sheet! In our second match against Woodlands, the team were let off early on after an opposition player ran into touch before scoring a try. They bounced back well and ran in an unanswered four tries before Woodlands got on the scoresheet. A further two tries ensured we ran out 6-1 winners. Following the game, Jess said, “I think tag rugby is my favourite sport!” The final game saw Abbotswood B come up against another team from Little Stoke Primary. Blossom managed to tag a number of their players before Mateu grabbed a try in the corner. Further tries from Jess, Riley, Max and Harri ensured we ran out 5-3 winners.
After the tournament, the children decided in their teams who they thought deserved a medal for displaying the values of rugby – teamwork, encouragement and enjoyment. Abbotswood A voted for Phoebe, whilst Abbotswood B voted for Mateu.
A huge thanks to Mr Edwards, Mr Capell and Mrs Olsen for coming along, as well as all the parents who came to support the team!
Abbotswood A – Phoebe, Harry, Sam, Finley, Ryley, Millie, Holly Ann, Leo, Archie
Abbotswood B – Riley, Harri, Mateu, Jess, Kyra, Blossom, Max, Corey
Mr Jelf
Football match vs Barrs Court
Abbotswood Primary School
Vs
Barrs Court Primary School
We played a very intense football match against Barrs Court – they were a tough opponent. We won 4-2 at full time with Corey scoring two in the 1st half, meaning we were 2-0 up at half time. Sam scored one more in the 2nd half taking us 3-0 up. Our team thought we had secured the win, but they made a comeback making it 3-2. With only a couple of minutes left, Harri scored the final goal making it 4-2 at full time. As we all shook hands, their captain cheered us off the pitch.
Position:
Goal Keeper: Harry F.
Defence: Oliver, Archie, Dylan.
Midfield: Riley W, Zack, Charlie.
Attack: Corey, Harri, Ronnie, Sam.
Also, Mr Jelf is an awesome coach!
By Harri R and Oliver B.
Judo
Year 1, 2 and 3 were lucky enough to have a free Judo taster session from Judo John!
Sports Week
To celebrate National Sports Week, we took part in LOTS of sporting activities throughout the week! We began every day with a whole school Daily Mile with our parents, to count towards our 60 minutes of activity a day! We also dedicated whole afternoons to PE, where we were all given different choices of the sports we'd like to play.
Sports Day was a great success too! Everyone had a great time and showed good team spirit. Well done to team Hutch who were the winning team overall!
To end our week, we were allowed to bring our bikes and scooters into school and spent the afternoon having fun on our wheels!
Have a look at just some of the photos from our week below:
Celebration of Sport Festival
On Monday, some of Year 5 took part in a Festival of Sport at Ashton Gate stadium, which was organised by the Bristol Sport coaches. The children took part in a huge number of sports against hundreds of other children from in and around Bristol, ranging from football to handball to gymnastics! It was a great day and the children thoroughly enjoyed themselves!
Bristol Flyers Basketball
Throughout term 4, Year 5/6 have been given to opportunity to participate in basketball training with the Bristol Flyers. Bristol Flyers Women's player Mai Zilbeti has been putting the classes through their paces. The morning is split into two halves, the first - a practical session with Mai, the second - a classroom based session with one of the club's community coaches. In the classroom based session, the children have been building on what they learnt last term in topic - the circulatory system - as well as how to lead a healthy, active life.
A group of year 5/6 girls took part in a netball tournament at Brimsham School. The competition was tough, but the girls showed great teamwork and perseverance throughout. They didn’t even let a fire drill phase them! They should all be really proud of themselves as we have only had a few practise sessions!
Well done!
Jailbreak Festival
Last week, a team of year 4s took part in a local Jailbreak competition, organised by Bristol Sport. The children had an amazing morning where they represented the school brilliantly and showed strong teamwork and determination. They did not lose a single match, despite the zero degree weather! Well done to all!
