Gordano School was delighted to welcome 53 Key Stage 1 children from High Down Infant School, St Peter’s and St Joseph’s Primary Schools for the Gordano Legacy KS1 Physical Literacy Multiskills Festival, which is part of Gordano School’s Outreach Programme to aid the transition for primary school students to secondary.

The visiting pupils represented their school teams and took part in an exciting afternoon of physical activity, designed to develop fundamental movement skills and promote a positive relationship with physical activity. We hope that all children and supporting adults thoroughly enjoyed the festival.

Staff were greatly impressed by the children’s passion, determination, teamwork and honesty — key School Games values — as they took on the challenge of seven Multi Skills activity stations. Each activity encouraged pupils to move in different ways and apply a range of skills to fun, engaging games.

Challenges included sending Kurling stones onto a target in the popular ‘Fill the House’ activity, using speed, balance and coordination in the Agility Relay, and stacking Giant Speedstacking Cups into a pyramid. Alongside developing physical skills, children also practised their numeracy, scoring points for their team and counting in multiples of 2 and 5 to calculate their totals at the end of each activity.

All participants were presented with a certificate to recognise their fantastic effort and participation.

The festival supported the Physical Literacy consensus statement, which explains that “Physical Literacy is our relationship with movement and physical activity throughout life.” Having a positive and meaningful relationship with movement and physical activity makes individuals more likely to be and stay active, benefiting health, wellbeing and quality of life (Sport England).

To find out more about Physical Literacy and explore the Physical Literacy Toolkit, please visit:
https://www.youthsporttrust.org/about/our-people/school-sport-activity-sector-partnership/physical-literacy-toolkit

Gordano School would like to thank all participating schools and staff for their support and for helping to make the event such a positive and enjoyable experience for all involved.