PE and Sport

2019/2020 St Leonard’s Church of England Sports Premium Funding

In 2020/21 St Leonard’s will receive £18,170 (plus £2,330 underspend due to Covid-19 from 19/20). This will be spent in the following ways:

-Re-establish opportunities for children to be active as possible throughout the school day. Raise the levels of general physical activity of all our children after long periods of in-activity due to Covid-19.

-Improve the school’s facilities to do this.

-Embed a new teaching/assessment system across school for Physical Education. Provide detailed and accurate assessments of each child which will inform fluid planning and teaching.

-Continue to ensure staff are able to deliver HQ PE/Sport activities. Staff should be confident and capable of delivering all areas of the curriculum to a range of ages/abilities.

-Provide a wide range of learning opportunities for our children, exposing them to different types of activities in different settings.

-Due to potential current restrictions provide as many competitive opportunities for our children on the school site. Establish Intra School competitions during the curriculum, breaktimes/lunchtimes and in after school activities.

-Buy into local SSP to ensure continuity and growth of local infra-structure. Universal offer for pupils and coordinated support package. Maintain links with other local providers.

-Continue to provide a large school swimming program so all children are able to achieve statutory targets. Particular focus on Lower KS2 classes and groups who have missed sessions previously.

St Leonard’s PE Press

Year 5/6 Girls Football Team

We are all tremendously proud of our girls footballers who won the Burnley Schools Area Finals Event this evening. The team were magnificent throughout and will now represent the Borough at the County Finals at Fleetwood in January!

Burnley vs Chelsea Guard of Honour

An amazing evening for our children, thank you to Leah and Jack, from Burnley in the Community. A big thank to Mr Deakin and Mrs Edwards!

Year 6/5 Girls Football Team

A magnificent performance from our girls footballers tonight saw them win the Burnley School Sports Partnership, Padiham Schools Qualifier and are now through to the area finals! The clarets were unbeaten throughout winning 1-0, 7-0, 3-0 & 5-0, goals galore! Well done girls!

Year 4 Football Team

All smiles from our Year 4 footballers despite narrowly losing a very good game (3-5) against our friends from Mary Magdalene’s this evening. Well played boys and kept working together as a team!

Year 6/5 Dodgeball Team

Well done to our dodgers, divers and duckers, at tonight’s Dodgeball competition at Shuttleworth College. Congratulations to Harley, for being voted the teams Sport Superstar.

Year 6/5 Tag Rugby Team

All smiles from our Tag Rugby players despite the rain. They played brilliantly at the Burnley School Sports Partnership festival event, showing great skill and perseverance in horrible weather!

Year 2 Cross Country

Well done to our Year 2 Cross Country Runners who were brilliant at Burnley School Sport Partnership event at Townley Park! The children showed great determination to finish a very long and muddy course!

Feel God Friday Fishing

What a day, what a morning! Plenty of fish caught during our #FeelGoodFriday session at Cornfield Farm Fishery today. Feels superb seeing so many smiles and happy children.

Hartley Cup First Round Victory

A magnificent effort by our Year 5/6 footballers saw them progress into Round 2 of the Hartley Cup this evening. In a hard fought and very close encounter the clarets triumphed 1-0 over Wellfield, Archie grabbing the winning goal! Well done boys!

Year 5/6 Footballers

Huge well done to our Year 5/6 footballers who won their two friendly matches 3-0 & 1-0 this evening. The boys showed great teamwork and skill producing some great play in the process. Well done boys 👍⚽️👏

Year 6 Footballers finish 2nd at the Lancashire School Games

We are so immensely proud of our Year 6 Footballers who finished 2nd at the Lancashire School Games County Final today. After progressing through to the final which ended in a very close 1-1 draw we narrowly lost on penalties Hold your heads up high girls, you were brilliant!

Year 4 Footballers

Well done to our Year 4 footballers who won their friendly match 2-1 this evening. The boys showed great teamwork, encouraging each other throughout and in turn produced some excellent football! Top work! ⚽️👏👍

Congratulations to our Year 4 Gymnastics

Congratulations to our Year 4 Gymnastics team who performed brilliantly today at the BurnleySSP Competition. The team finished in 1st place in the team event, picking up the gold medal!🥇🤸‍♀️ Also a special mention to Martha who picked up the gold medal in the girls individual!🥇

Year 2 Boys Football

Well done to our Year 2 Footballers, who played brilliantly in their two friendly matches this evening (1-3 & 3-0). Great work boys!

Year 3 and 4 Sports Hall Athletics team

Well done to our Year 3 and 4 Sports Hall Athletics team, who finished in a brilliant 3rd place, in this evenings competition. All our children give a 100% and were a credit to the school throughout!

Year 3 and 4 Girls Football

It was a pleasure to watch our Year 3 and 4 girls play in the Burnley College friendly football event today. For most of the girls it was their first experience of competitive matches and they were all brilliant! Well done!

St Leonard’s New Fleet of Bikes.

Huge thanks to Lee from Cotton Town Bikes, who has helped us source and assemble our new fleet of bikes. By using our Sports Premium funding our children will be able to continue riding and use their skills picked up from our Bikeability programs.

Burnley vs Arsenal Guard of Honour

Amazing day at Turf Moor, for Burnley vs Arsenal. A big thank you to Leah and everyone at Burnley in the Community, for giving our children this opportunity. Another big thank you to Mr Boyle, Mr Deakin and Mr Gaukroger, for giving up their Sunday, for the children.

Feel Good Friday Fishing 1

First ‘Feel Good Friday Fishing pole and fish’ session of the half-term and just look at these smiles. Absolutely fantastic! Let’s hope for some better weather next week.