PE at Hadrian Academy
PE is a subject we feel passionate about at Hadrian Academy. It is our aim for all children to be enthusiastic about physical exercise and develop the fundamental movement skills needed for life.
Not only does exercise improve a child’s overall health and fitness it helps to improve their mental health and cognitive development as well, by taking part in physical exercise, children are more likely to concentrate and maintain focus in lessons.
Our PE curriculum is divided into areas of games, athletics, gymnastics, outdoor adventure and dance. Each year our children are taught the key skills that allow them to make progress in these areas.
Physical Activities
As well as the PE curriculum, we ensure that our children can access a variety of physical activities. This includes activities such as enrichment experiences from outside providers and lunch time activities organised by a play leader,
During playtimes children can use a variety of equipment and join in games with their friends. They can also use the exercise stations located around the track.
Every Friday morning at 8:30am our year 6 sports leaders run a ‘Walk the mile’ session. Our children enjoy challenging themselves to see who can complete the most laps!
During the year children have the opportunity to represent the school by taking part in one of the many sporting competitions that are available to us organised through the local school sport partnership. The children love being competitive and working as a team. We often do well in Football, Tag Rugby, Basketball, Dodgeball, Tennis, Boccia and Cricket tournaments. We even reached the county finals in Sports Hall Athletics!
Our children also compete in termly inter-house competitions. Our sports week in the Summer Term is the highlight of the year. Our children can use all the sporting skills they have learned throughout the year and collaborate in their house teams. We take our KS2 children to Stockwood Park Athletics Centre so they can compete like true Olympians!
At our before and after school club we are able to offer healthy breakfasts as well as fun and engaging physical games. Our children really like playing dodgeball, riding bikes, dancing and doing parachute games.
We also offer a range of after school sports clubs, popular ones are Football, Basketball and Street dance.
