School Sports
School Sport
At Ashbury Meadow, school sport forms a fundamental part of our enrichment offer. We recognise the power sport plays enhancing the social, emotional, physical and mental capacity of our pupils. The opportunities we create for our pupils are designed to inspire and motivate. We want pupils to realise that effort and application leads to progress. We want to broaden the horizons of our pupils and raise their aspirations.
Our School Sport offer includes:
- Inter school competitions, festival and events.
- Intra school competitions, festival and events.
- Extra-Curricular and co-curricular activities
- Trip and Visits.
- Community Programs and Parent Workshops.
Inter school competition, festivals, and events.
Ashbury Meadow Primary School works closely with local, regional and national partners. This provides our children and children within local partnership schools the opportunities to take part in sports, festivals and competition. We are part of the Manchester Schools’ PE Association (Team MCR), which is a partnership of over 100 affiliated schools in the City of Manchester area. Ashbury Meadow Primary School play a major role in the planning, preparation, and delivery of sporting events in the local area. These events positively impact levels of pupil participation in variety of school sports and physical activities. This partnership provides pupils of all
abilities from differing backgrounds the opportunity to represent their school.
In addition to our involvement with Team MCR we also play an active role in the School Games Program. Ashbury Meadow Primary School has achieved the Platinum School Games Mark for 2023-2025 demonstrating our commitment to the School Games program. We attend all enrichment events, festivals and workshops to positively benefits our pupils. Considered a beacon sports school, in 2019 we were a finalist in the Sports School of the Year category at the Manchester Active Sports Awards, later winning the award in 2022.
Ashbury Meadow Primary School has established strong links with local community providers (City in the Community), professional clubs (Manchester City Football Club, Manchester United Football Club, Lancashire County Cricket Club) and regional partners (Manchester Active). All of who have extended our intra school offer exposing our pupils to a variety of sports and opportunities
Intra school competitions, festivals and events.
Ashbury Meadow Primary school runs intra school competitions and festivals giving pupils the opportunity to play and compete against other pupils in our school. Intra school events enrich our curriculum offer and expose to pupils to a wider range of sporting opportunities. Our annual Sports Games Day means which takes place at the fantastic Sport City outdoor athletics track ensures all pupils at Ashbury Meadow Primary get the opportunity to take part in intra school competition.
Extra-curricular
Our extra-curricular provision is outstanding. Teachers support our extra-curricular and co-curricular programs to enhance our curriculum offer. Teachers deliver clubs relative to their personal passions, skill set and interests. We use pupil voice to shape our extra-curricular program ensuring the needs of our pupils are met. External providers and teachers contribute positively to our extra-curricular provision. We have a range of physical activity and sporting opportunities available throughout the week for pupils to sign up for and take part in. Our Extra-curricular clubs are very well attended.
Trips and Visits
To develop the social and cultural capital of our pupils we attend a range of sporting events throughout the academic year. These includes trips to local and national sporting events e.g. Yonex Squash Championships, Panathlon Inclusion and Manchester City Football Club. In addition to the trips we attend, we also welcome visitors to our school to enrich the opportunities available to our pupils. Partnerships, trips and visits have been able to upskill our staff and provide CPD opportunities making links between PE and the wider curriculum.
Community Programmes
Ashbury Meadow Primary School is committed to establishing meaningful links between school and the wider community. We aim to open our school facilities creating safe space for pupils to engage is sport and physical activity beyond the school day. We also aim to work with parents and carers to highlight the benefits of leading a physically active, happy, healthy lifestyle. We are working hard to build links between Ashbury Meadow Primary School and the local community and in 2020 we formed the East Manchester Primary School’s Sports Cluster which allows all children of all abilities in our wonderful part of Manchester to compete against each other in structured sports competitions.
Primary PE Activities for you to try at home.
These PE resources are designed support in-school and remote learning for children and young people at a primary school level. They include physical activity, sport and well-being-based activities. All of the activities below, created in partnership with Complete PE can be used to generate ideas for lessons. You can download any of the activities or get the full set by using the link at the bottom of this page.
There are also supporting videos demonstrating each activity. View all videos in playlist format
https://www.youthsporttrust.org/school-support/free-resources/primary-pe-activities
