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Games
Building Confidence Through Individual and Team Based Sports.
At Westbourne School, the Games curriculum provides pupils with a well-rounded education in sports, covering a wide range of activities from team sports to individual sports, and from traditional to modern sports. The curriculum is designed to be adaptable to different age groups and skill levels, offering opportunities for progression and specialisation. It also includes a strong focus on fitness, which is an integral part of any sports programme. The aim is to provide pupils with a comprehensive sporting experience, promoting physical fitness, skill development, teamwork, and sportsmanship.
In addition to the physical aspects, the curriculum also incorporates cross-curricular links. The study of sports is connected to subjects such as history, geography, science, and mathematics, providing pupils with a more holistic understanding of the world around them.
This curriculum is continuously evolving to meet the needs of our pupils. We are committed to finding new and innovative ways to teach sports while providing the best possible resources and facilities. We believe our Games curriculum offers pupils an excellent foundation for a future in sports, whether they aspire to be professional athletes, coaches, or simply enjoy being involved in sport.
Core Principles (Applicable to all sports)
- Sportsmanship and Ethics: Fair play, respect for opponents and officials, teamwork, and ethical conduct.
- Safety and Injury Prevention: Warm-up and cool-down routines, proper technique, risk assessment, and basic first aid.
- Fundamental Movement Skills: Agility, balance, coordination, speed, and reaction time.
- Tactical Awareness: Game strategies, positioning, decision-making, and adapting to different game situations.
- Physical Fitness: Developing and maintaining cardiovascular fitness, strength, endurance, and flexibility.
Progression and Assessment
- Skill Development: Gradual progression from basic to advanced skills through drills and practice.
- Game Play: Modified games and progressively complex game situations to develop tactical awareness.
- Assessment: Observation, skill tests, game performance, and fitness evaluations.
- Differentiation: Adapting activities and instruction to meet individual needs and abilities.
- Basic skills: Passing, catching, and tackling.
- Game play: Rules, positions, strategies, and teamwork.
- Modified versions: Touch rugby, tag rugby.
- Basic skills: Stick handling, passing, shooting, dribbling, tackling.
- Game play: Rules, positions, strategies, and teamwork.
- Basic skills: Passing, dribbling, shooting, controlling, tackling, heading.
- Game play: Rules, positions, strategies, and teamwork.
- Basic skills: Passing, catching, shooting, footwork, defending.
- Game play: Rules, positions, strategies, and teamwork.
- Basic skills: Batting, bowling (fast/spin), fielding, wicket-keeping.
- Game play: Rules, different formats, and strategies
- Basic skills: Batting, bowling, fielding, running bases.
- Game play: Rules, strategies, and teamwork.
Racket Sports: Badminton, Table Tennis, Tennis, and Racket ball
- Basic skills: Grip, strokes (forehand, backhand, serve, volley), footwork.
- Game play: Rules, scoring, strategies (singles/doubles).
- Track events: Running (sprints, middle/long distance), hurdles, relays.
- Field events: Jumping (long jump, high jump), throwing (javelin, shot put, discus).
- Fitness and conditioning for athletic performance
- Cardiovascular Training: Running, interval, circuit training, etc.
- Strength Training: Bodyweight exercises and weightlifting (if appropriate).
- Flexibility and Mobility: Stretching.
- Nutrition and Hydration: Importance of a balanced diet and proper hydration for athletic performance.
- Fitness Testing and Evaluation: Monitoring progress and setting goals.
- Westbourne Sport Festivals
- Fixtures
- SFSS Tournaments
- House Events
