We are School Games Platinum Award Winners for 2022/23!!!!!

We are delighted to announce that we, Bowerham Primary and Nursery School, have achieved the School Games PLATINUM Mark Award for the 2022/23 & 2023/24 academic years.

The School Games Mark is a Government-led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community, and we are delighted to have been recognised for our success.

Our most recent sporting achievements include:
Girls Football Easter Field Champions
Top Lancaster School in the Lancashire Athletics Qualifier allowing us to compete at county level.
Lancaster Schools Netball Champions
Year 4 Boys Netball Champions
Placing second in numerous events including; Netball league, Girls Futsal league, dodgeball, athletics league, cricket, tag rugby.
Taking more than 50 children to the SSN Sports Festival 23/24 receiving medals in dodgeball, tag rugby, girls football and Y3/4 athletics.

We allocate part of our PE and sport premium funding to pay for our coach Mike Sambell. Mike has a huge skill set and has been a key element to our sports teams being so successful. His role has been to train our children who are gifted and talented at specific sports to be competition ready, these children are selected by the PE team who have years of knowledge of what competition is like in our local area. They hold discussions with class teachers to gain an understanding of which children are working at a greater depth level and beyond in physical education. We enter as many teams in competitions as we are allowed to, with some having specific boy, girl ratios.

This academic year, we are allocating a large part of our PE and sport premium funding to pay for Bowerham's very own Summer of Sport. Our aim is to give children the experience of a range of sports taught to them by professional coaches with the hope that this will sew a seed of love for sport, encouraging them to be more physically active and have the confidence to get sporty. We will, of course, be adding everything that happens to social media, be sign-posting parents to clubs they can take their children to outside of school and continue to adjust our PE curriculum to support the interest and development of our pupils from.

We are extremely proud of our pupils for their dedication to all aspects of school sport, including those young volunteers, leaders and officials who made our competitions possible.

As part of our application, we were asked to fulfil criteria in the areas of participation, competition, workforce and clubs, and we are pleased that the hard work of everyone at our school has been rewarded this year.

A special thanks to:
Miss Lloyd who leads PE within school as well as all of our staff who are so willing to help run clubs and take our children to events. Not forgetting our parents helping out and supporting with transport.

We look forward to applying once again in 2024!