Sport
At Hasland Junior School, we want to facilitate the opportunity for children to engage in a range of sporting events and extra-curricular activities.
We follow the Youth Sport Trust 'Competition For All' model. The purpose of this is to create positive experiences for all children and young people to encourage life-long enjoyment and engagement in physical activity. We aim to to understand and meet the motivations, competence and confidence of the young people that we educate, targeting the young people who need it most to improve their physical literacy, social, emotional and physical well-being. These events are categorised into 'Inspire, Connect, Achieve.' Further explanation can be found below.
- Inspire events are aimed at engaging our least active or least motivated young people. As the name suggests, the outcome at these events is to inspire, motivate and encourage young people to start a positive relationship with physical activity. Young people who attend these events may need encouraging to step out of their comfort zone, take risks and try new things.
- Connect events are aimed at young people who are motivated by physical activity based on fun, friendship and the social interactions that present themselves. The competition isn’t that important but appreciate recognition based on personal best, teamwork and creativity. Connect events put the spotlight on fun and friendship, having a go to explore, learn and develop their personal skills and qualities in a safe and structured environment.
- Achieve events are aimed at young people who are confident in their own sporting ability and tend to be more competitive than other groups. They value the benefits of sport, care about sport and love being involved. These young people strive to improve and succeed at every activity or challenge they take on. They enjoy testing their competitive nature but whilst having fun. These events will create a healthy competitive environment to achieve personal or team based goals.
Additionally, we also have a popular extra-curricular timetable. Qualitative studies have found that extra-curricular activities give young people the confidence to interact socially with others, extend their social networks beyond existing friendship groups, and provide them with new skills and abilities. Some also perceive them as important for their long-term career aspirations as well as useful in building stronger university and job applications. Above all, young people see extra-curricular activities as a chance to have fun, unwind and relieve the stresses of an ever-evolving childhood.
I hope you enjoy keeping up to date with the sporting success of our pupils.
Mr Hiron
PE and Sports Lead
