We are delighted to announce that we, Bowerham Primary and Nursery School and Baby Unit, have achieved the School Games PLATINUM Mark Award for the 2024/25 & 2025/26 academic years.
This is a fantastic achievement and we have continued to keep our standards and aspirations high since we were first awarded this in 2022.
The School Games Mark is a Government-led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community, and we are delighted to have been recognised for our success.
Our most recent sporting achievements include:
PE and Sports School of the Year.
Equal access school award for girls football
Boys Football Easter Field Champions.
Top Lancaster School in the Lancashire Athletics Qualifier allowing us to compete at county level.
Lancaster Schools Netball Champions and Lancashire county qualifiers.
Lancashire county qualifiers for mixed cricket and girls’ cricket.
This year, we have started our very own intra school competitions. These inclusive run competitions are all within the safety of our school grounds and offer our children the chance to compete and find a love for a new sport (maybe one they have never tried before). Bowerham’s first multi-sport event (duathlon) was a huge success and we will continue to provide a full range of sporting opportunities for all children across all ages throughout the year.
We allocate part of our PE and sport premium funding to pay for our coach Mike Sambell. Mike has a huge skill set and has been a key element to our sports teams being so successful. His role has been to train our children who are gifted and talented at specific sports to be competition ready, these children are selected by the PE team who have years of knowledge of what competition is like in our local area. They hold discussions with class teachers to gain an understanding of which children are working at a greater depth level and beyond in physical education. We enter as many teams in competitions as we are allowed to, with some having specific boy, girl ratios.
We are allocate a large part of our PE and sport premium funding to pay for Bowerham’s very own Summer of Sport. Our aim is to give children the experience of a range of sports taught to them by professional coaches with the hope that this will sew a seed of love for sport, encouraging them to be more physically active and have the confidence to get sporty. We will, of course, be adding everything that happens to social media, be sign-posting parents to clubs they can take their children to outside of school and continue to adjust our PE curriculum to support the interest and development of our pupils from.
We are extremely proud of our pupils for their dedication to all aspects of school sport, including those young volunteers, leaders and officials who made our competitions possible.
A special thanks to:
To all of our staff who are so willing to help run clubs and take our children to events. Not forgetting our parents helping out and supporting with transport.
At Bowerham we believe that physical development is an essential part of the curriculum. It allows our children to:
- Have fun and enjoy themselves!
- Develop friendships and meet new people
- Become more determined and demonstrate resilience
- Understand and demonstrate the importance of respect for others
- Learn to develop self control and manage emotions
- Experience being part of a team and understand their contribution to it
- Win with pride and lose with grace
- Learn the importance of practice and preparation
- Learn how to set realistic goals and work towards achieving them
- Aspire to improve and challenge themselves
Bowerham Primary & Nursery School & Baby Unit is part of the School Games. The School Games, which is funded by Sport England and delivered by the Youth Sport Trust, is a government led programme designed to deliver competitive school sport to all young people.
In addition to the belief of doing our Bowerham Best and our school ethos, we develop the School Games values through our Sports curriculum, Intra-School competitions and Local Inter-School Competitions.
Staffing Structure
Mr Wakeman and Miss Lloyd organise and lead PE within school and they are supported by other staff members on the personal development team.
Sports Council
The Sports Council help to run sport across school. They are selected by their class members to be representatives for sport.
Pupil’s on the sports council have a large say in what we do. They have been highly effective in implementing our sports development plans.
Please see the pupil voice report: