Physical Education at Crestwood College for Business and Enterprise

Physical Education is the curricular and extended curricular learning in which students engage within a broad and balanced range of PE activities.   It includes students’ National Curriculum statutory entitlement in PE and the range of lunchtime and immediately after school PE and sports activities that are organised and managed as part of a school’s programme.

Through these activities students will develop their fine and gross motor skills, improve their capacity to solve physical problems and refine their physical performance.   They will learn how to monitor, evaluate and improve physical performances by linking visual-kinaesthetic learning to their cognitive understanding of PE activities.   Through each physical activity students will develop their knowledge, skills and understanding of safe practice, of how fitness affects performance, and of the beneficial effects of exercise on health.

During the next academic year, students will continue to take part in the exciting and varied core PE programme and for the first time, students will also have the opportunity to use some of their upper school time to take the Junior Sports Leader Award.   This is a nationally recognised award in leading groups in physical activity.

The last academic year saw Crestwood students successfully compete at District, County and Regional level and take part in a wide variety of extra-curricula activities. The season has seen regular fixtures in basketball, football, netball, hockey, cricket and athletics. Recently Crestwood won 3 of the 5 boys District football leagues and the U15 boys basketball team won the County cup.

During the summer activities week Mr Bryce led a very successful water sports trip to Spain, with over forty students and staff experiencing windsurfing, snorkelling, catamaran sailing and much more on some excellent beaches.

This academic year brings the first opportunity to fully utilise the new 30 station fitness suite, sports hall and drama studio. These all should prove to be highly popular with the students here at Crestwood.