SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

AT MYTHAM

Welcome to the Summer edition of our newsletter dedicated to sport and

physical activity at Mytham.

What a busy term we’ve had...and what a fantastic year it’s been!

This year has been filled with a wide variety of sporting events and competitions and we

have been able to provide a huge variety of after school clubs to our pupils right across

both key stages.

Clubs which have been on offer this year are:

Gymnastics Kwik Cricket Tennis Multi-Sports

Tri-Golf Tag Rugby Yoga Dodgeball Athletics

Rounders Netball Dance Fitness Friday Active Kids

Cross Country Football

July 2019

Extra Curricular

Sport Clubs

2019-2020

We are in the process of

moving the booking and

payment system for after school

clubs to the online Agora

system.

We will hopefully be able to give

you more details about this

in the Autumn term.

Sport Leaders

Mr Barlow has been busy

training next year’s Sport

Leaders who we are

confident are going to do

a great job!

The new Sport Leaders

are:

Evie Williams, Lilly Ralphs

Harrison Brett, Lilly-Mae Joel

Jayden Owen-Axford, Grace McMorran

Finlay Corbett, Kincso Kosaras

Scarlet Andreozzi, Rain Beckford

Lewis Harvey, Lewis Exley, Tia Ohizu,

Luke Othen, Owen Clarke

Jack Hamlett, Jamie Ramsden

If there are any parents who have a particular expertise in any

area of sport who are keen to help our staff to run

extra-curricular clubs and activities, then please let us know.

We are always glad of extra help!

Similarly, if there are any parents who are in a position to help

out with kit sponsorship, this is also something we would be

extremely grateful for.

A record number of pupils have participated in extra-curricular sporting

activities this year which is amazing!

We plan to continue this success next year and hope that you will continue

to encourage your children to sign up for after school clubs as they are a

great way of keeping healthy whilst also having fun!

KS2 children enjoying Yoga

Club in the sunshine with

Danielle our Dance and Yoga

teacher.

The weekly Rounders Club in

full swing!

MYTHAM SUCCESS STORIES!

We are so proud of our Rounders team who

managed to bring home the shield yet again with

a great win in the final against St Stephens.

The annual Rounders Tournament has been

running here at Mytham for the last 6 years...and

I can proudly say that Mytham have now won it

for 4 out of those 6 years!

This year, for the first time, Mytham organised

a swimming Gala for primary schools in the

Kearsley and Little Lever clusters.

The event, which was held at Bolton One, was

a huge success and a fantastic showcase of

some very talented young swimmers.

I am thrilled to say that Mytham were the

overall winners with other children receiving

medals for 1st place wins within individual

races.

Here are our fantastic winners!

Our swimming champions proudly showing

off the cup they won!

PE Kit Can we please remind parents that we do have both an indoor and outdoor PE kit which the

children are expected to wear at all times during lessons. Standards have slipped recently,

and whilst we understand that parents are reluctant to purchase new clothing at this late

stage in the year, we will expect to see all pupils in the correct kits in the Autumn term. We

will be checking this in the very first PE lessons in September and also making sure that all,

items are labelled in order to avoid clothing becoming lost. If a child does lose their PE kit,

they will wear kit from the spare store we have in school.

Indoor PE Kit for Dance and Gymnastics:

Plain white t-shirt.

Navy blue or black shorts or skort.

Black pumps.

All items must be without logos and lettering.

Outdoor PE Kit

for Games:

Plain white t-shirt.

Navy blue or black jogging

pants or leggings.

Navy blue or black long sleeved

jacket.

Trainers—these must not

be what the child is already

wearing for school.

Trainers should not be

worn for school.

All items must be without

logos and lettering.

May we also remind parents that physical activity and PE lessons are a statutory expectation of the

National Curriculum and all pupils should be taking part in their lessons each week unless there is a

valid reason why they can’t. In these circumstances, a note from a parent must be sent into school

explaining the reason. If this is an ongoing medical problem, we will request a doctors note.

From September, children not participating in lessons will be set extra maths and English work to

complete in another classroom whilst the lesson takes place.

Although unfortunately due to the

weather KS1 and KS2 Sports Days

were unable to go ahead, Nursery

children took part in their annual

‘Sports Week.’ They had lots of

fun!

Summer Term 2019

We discovered a few tennis stars

of the future when we took part

in a Tennis tournament at Bolton

Arena.

KS2 children who participated

in the School Games Athletics

competition at Bolton Arena.

Sportsman Of The Year Award

2018-19

The Sportsman Of The Year Award was given

to Olivia Paice this year for her outstanding

contribution to sport and PE during her time

here at Mytham. Olivia is extremely talented in

a variety of sports but also has many

admirable qualities; she is a great leader but

also a team player, she is dedicated and

ambitious with the desire to succeed, she wins

with pride and more importantly, she always

loses gracefully. You really do deserve this

award Olivia...a huge well done!

Summer Term 2019

Year 5 pupils have been learning to bowl with members of Mytham Park

Bowling Team. This culminated in a fantastic, enjoyable but competitive

tournament!

Sports Award

I am sure most of you have now met our

new Sports Coach, Mr Barlow. He has been

working hard delivering PE lessons across

school and running a variety of after school

clubs.

Mr Barlow has introduced a new sports

award which will be presented weekly to a

pupil who has shown a good attitude in an

area of sport or physical activity either in

lessons or during extra-curricular

activities.

KS2 children taking part

in a Tri-Golf tournament at

Bolton Golf Club.

Summer Term 2019 Members of the KS2

Dance Club put on an

absolutely amazing

performance at Bolton

Dance Festival, held

recently at the Albert

Halls.

They really did do

Mytham proud!

Pupils in Year 2 and

Year 4 enjoyed their

annual visits to the

Anderton Centre to take

part in outdoor

adventurous activity.

A great time was had by

all!

Some of this year’s other events...

Year 5 were lucky enough to have Rugby

and Cricket sessions with members of

Bolton Rugby Club and Lancashire

County Cricket Club.

The whole school took

part in a skipping

workshop back in the

Autumn term which

also included training

for staff and Sport

Leaders.

Skipping is now a

regular part of our

daily activities here at

Mytham and we are all

having lots of fun

improving our jumping!

The KS2 Girls Fitness Friday Club

has been a great success this year.

Some of this year’s other events...

Here are just

some of the

children who

have achieved

awards this

year as part of

the after school

Gymnastics

Club.

Pupils who attended the Active Kids Club this

year enjoyed a range of fun activities including

fruit tasting and making fruit kebabs as part of

learning all about healthy lifestyles.