Hawley is proud to be an active school that provides an inclusive P.E. curriculum as well as a range of extra-curricular activities to engage and stretch all children. Children look forward to their P.E. lessons, where challenge, praise and success are key, and P.E. has a high status within our school community.
We offer a wide (and changing) range of sports for the children to participate in, which help children to understand the importance of an active lifestyle and associated health benefits. These sports are planned carefully to build skills progressively across the school.
Inclusion is central to our ethos so lessons are carefully planned and delivered to ensure all children participate actively and experience success. We teach a wide range of team sports such as basketball, football, cricket and dodgeball and children compete in numerous borough wide events, with selective teams and inclusive squads to engage children of all levels of confidence. Every year we offer after school sports clubs in a wide range of activities, all of which are fully subscribed.
Children develop a range of physical skills and learn numerous sports that encourage teamwork and leadership. We see the impact of this growth mind-set across the children’s attitudes to learning in all subjects. All children are expected to push themselves in PE, and weekly recognition is used to feedback positive praise when children show particular effort.
We hold a Sports Day in Regent’s Park each July and take part in annual events such as the Camden Athletics tournament, Cross Country and other inclusive events organized by the borough. We enter a girls and boys team into both the Year 3/4 and Year 5/6 Camden Schools football tournaments and are showing increasing promise in our results!
Almost all of our children walk, cycle or scooter to school each day and we are committed to walking as much as possible – for example, we utilise the great resource of Hampstead Heath for class activities and every class walks to the swimming pool when taking lessons. All children in Years 2-5 will participate in a period of swimming lessons each year.
We use our ring-fenced government sports grant to support the delivery and provision of P.E. The grant partially funds the work of our specialist sports coach, Kadie Gallagher, who teaches P.E. to all classes from Nursery to Year 6.