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Sport and Physical Education
The school has achieved the FA Charter Standard for school recognising the quality football experiences the school provides for both boys and girls. All children have the opportunity to participate in PE, dance, team games, athletics and gymnastics. They are made aware of the benefits of physical activity to fitness and health. The School’s facilities include an excellent playing field; PE and dance take place in the School Hall, which is equipped with a range of sports apparatus.
A range of team sports are played, not only in School time but also in clubs after school. They include Football, Basketball, Netball, Rounder, Kwik Cricket, Athletics and swimming. Matches against other local schools are arranged and children also participate in Warriner Partnership sports events.

Music
Our children have the opportunity to sing, listen to music and become familiar with a wide range of percussion instruments and recorder. Individual and group tuition (for which a charge is made) is available for strings, flute and brass instruments, through the County Music Service.
The whole school regularly sings together and all children are involved in school productions.
Personal, Social, Health and Citizenship Education
The school has been awarded Healthy Schools Status recognising our commitment to the health and well being of pupils and staff. Personal and social development of all children is supported by the School's PSHCE policy, which includes sex education. It is taught in context during the child’s early years of education as an ongoing part of the curriculum. Staff always try to handle questions and queries in a sensitive manner, appropriate to the age of the child; where appropriate, parents are involved and informed of the Sex Education programme within the curriculum of particular year groups. Parents retain the right to withdraw their child from receiving sex education at school.
Educational Visits
A wide range of visits to museums, exhibitions, wildlife centres and local theatres are arranged, often to tie in with curriculum topics. In addition, local field trips are made as an introduction to environmental study.
Drama groups and arts organisations also make regular visits to School.
Governors have agreed that parents may be asked to make a voluntary contribution towards the costs of educational visits and special activities, which take place in school time. However, no child will be excluded if his/her parents are unable to make a contribution.
Homework
All children are expected to read daily at home. Other activities such as learning of spellings and tables are routinely set, as are additional activities to reinforce learning in Maths and other areas of the curriculum.
Homework is seen as an essential part of the learning day, reinforcing, extending and enhancing work done in the classroom. The school seeks to work in partnership with parents regarding pupils developing positive habits towards homework.
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