Physical Education Vision at Dedworth Middle School

At Dedworth, we recognise the importance of Physical Education and the role it has to play in promoting long term, healthy lifestyles. We strive to encourage our pupils to reach their personal goals and achieve their own potential. It is our vision for every pupil to succeed through remaining engaged in lessons, creating routines leading to lifelong physically active lifestyles.

We strive to inspire our pupils through fun and engaging PE lessons that are enjoyable, challenging and accessible to all. Through our teaching of PE, we will provide opportunities for pupils to develop values and transferrable life skills such as teamwork, fairness, respect, leadership (helping and caring for younger pupils in PE) and organisation as well as providing them with opportunities to take part in competitive sport.

PE at Dedworth involves happy pupils that are able to stretch and challenge themselves, through enjoyable learning experiences, with a wide range of sporting activities including invasion games, net & wall games, strike and field games, gymnastics, dance, OAA, fitness and athletics, swimming and land-based rowing.

Pupils in years 7 and 8 participate in three high quality PE lessons each week, covering two or three sporting disciplines every half term. Pupils in year 5+6 participate in two high quality lessons covering two sports every half term. In addition, children are encouraged to participate in the varied range of extra-curricular activities such as football, netball, sportshall athletics, rugby, gymnastics, dance, tag rugby, fencing, rounders, cricket, athletics, basketball, ultimate frisbee, indoor rowing and cheerleading. Pupils can attend after school sport clubs/fixtures. All of these opportunities are aiming to create ambitious pupils at Dedworth Middle School.

At Dedworth we are part of the Windsor School Sports Partnership. The WSSP help support us with extracurricular clubs for our children, provide staff CPD opportunities to improve the departments knowledge and understanding, development of health and wellbeing for both staff and pupils and organise fixtures against other schools in the local area.

In years 7 and 8 pupils can be selected to take part in the Sports Leaders programme run in school. As part of this pupils develop their leadership skills and become sporting role models for the younger children. The Sports Leaders help around school with inter house events, leading tasks in PE lessons and running competitions for First Schools in the local area. These extra opportunities allow pupils to become more valiant and responsible.

All pupils are given the opportunity to go on a residential trips (skiing, outward bound). As part of this pupils take part in activities such as rock climbing, skiing, abseiling, canoeing, archery and fencing. Pupils attend the trip for three-five days and aim to develop their confidence, teamwork, and resilience and communication skills.

Pupils unable to swim 25m are given the opportunity to have onsite swimming lessons with qualified swimming teachers. This will enable them to develop their water safety, progress with their skills and access the National curriculum.

As well as promoting sport in school we also provide many links to external clubs so that pupils can be encouraged to participate in sport more regularly and compete in different environments if they choose to. Some of these include Windsor FC, Windsor RFC, Windsor Royals (netball), fencing and wrestling.