PE/Health

We are delighted to announce that St Stephens Community Academy, have achieved the School Games GOLD Mark Award for the 2022/23 academic year.
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.
With an impressive total of young people competing in local inter-school competitions this year, 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.
As part of our application, we were asked to fulfil criteria in the areas of participation, competition, workforce and clubs, and we are pleased that the hard work of everyone at our school has been rewarded this year.
Congratulations to Team St Stephens Community Academy.
St Stephens Virtual Sports Day 2020

Cornwall Virtual School Games, sponsored by the University of Exeter to run Monday 22nd - Friday 26th June 2020.
This year, St Stephens have entered into the Cornwall School games. Please read the information below and watch the video, as we would love ALL of our families to compete in this country wide sports week. You can also find some extra information here http://activecornwall.org/cornwallschoolgames/the-virtual-games
 
We will upload more information as the week goes on. Good Luck!
 
RESULTS HAVE TO BE SUBMITTED TO CORNWALL SCHOOL GAMES AND ANY RESULTS SUBMITTED AFTER WILL NOT COUNT.
 
We are competing against all the school in Cornwall who have entered - lets see how far up the score table we can go!
Thursday 26th June
 
RESULTS NEED TO BE SENT TO MRS HOOPER BY 3:00PM TODAY AS IT IS THE LAST DAY OF THE GAMES
 
10.00am - Tennis Challenge Cards, ‘Making Up the Miles’ Challenge Card
 
11.00am - ‘5 Ways to Wellbeing’ Focus on ‘Take Notice’ video released via @CornwallSchoolGames Facebook page and Active Cornwall YouTube account
 
Below are the activity cards which show how to correctly set up and how to score each activity.
Day 4 of the Cornwall Virtual School Games completed with enthusiasm and energy. Some awesome volleyball skills on show. Great job Team St Stephens.
 
We've also been working really hard this week on the 'Making up the Miles' challenge. Go Team St Stephens!
Thursday 25th June
 
10.00am - Volleyball Challenge Cards, ‘Making Up the Miles’ Challenge Card
 
Midday - ‘5 Ways to Wellbeing’ focus on ‘Give’ video released via @CornwallSchoolGames Facebook page and Active Cornwall YouTube account.
 
Below are the activity cards which show how to correctly set up and how to score each activity.
Day 3 of the Cornwall Virtual School Games completed with the most creative hip-hop routines and elegant gymnastics. Great job Team St Stephens.
Wednesday 24th June
 
10.00am - Gymnastics and Dance Challenge Cards, ‘Making Up the Miles’ Challenge Card
 
Midday - ‘5 Ways to Wellbeing’ focus on ‘Connect’ video released via @CornwallSchoolGames Facebook page and Active Cornwall YouTube account.
 
Below are the activity cards which show how to correctly set up and how to score each activity.
What a fantastic Day 2 of the Cornwall Virtual School Games for Team St Stephens. Brilliant boccia (bowls)! Some super scores from pupils, parents, carers and staff, as well some amazing resilience and determination. Never give up!
Tuesday 22nd June
 
10.00am - Bowls and Boccia Challenge Cards (2 challenges - 'Knock'em Down' and 'The Target', ‘Making Up the Miles’ Challenge Card
 
Midday - ‘5 Ways to Wellbeing’ focus on ‘Get Active’ video released via @CornwallSchoolGames Facebook page and Active Cornwall YouTube account.
 
Below are the activity cards which show how to correctly set up and how to score each activity.
WOW! What a great job you all did on day 1!
Monday 22nd June
 
10.00am - Virtual Opening Ceremony video released on the Active Cornwall YouTube channel and @CornwallSchoolGames Facebook page.
 
10.00am - Athletics Challenge Cards, ‘Making Up the Miles’ Challenge Card.
 
Midday - ‘5 Ways to Wellbeing’ focus on ‘Keep learning’ video released via @CornwallSchoolGames Facebook page and Active Cornwall YouTube account.
 
Below are the activity cards which show how to correctly set up and how to score each activity.
 
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The impact of the sports premium money will have a long lasting effect and impact on St Stephens Community Academy. The use of the money to hire sports coaches in football, gymnastics, athletics and cricket has had a huge impact to date on staff confidence and capabilities to teach a variety of high quality PE across the school. We intend on continuing to build on this CPD to enhance and enable all teaching staff to deliver high quality PE. The use of the money to date has had a great impact on the sustainability of high quality PE and will continue to improve PE for all our pupils  - currently and in the future.
 
There is always a lot of sport and opportunities for PE at St Stephens. This year we have additional coaches working with us; this includes Plymouth Argyle Football Club coaches for all classes over the year and Bikeability for year 6. Each class from Year 1 to Year 6 will swim for a five week block of hour long lessons.. In the Summer term we will have additional coaches and opportunities for cricket and athletics.

There are a variety of sports clubs running on a weekly basis which include:

Year 5/6 football, Year 3/4 football, Y5/6 netball, KS1 multiskills, running club, athletics, creative arts and Plymouth Argyle KS1 & KS2 clubs for football and cricket.

There will also be opportunities for children to participate in various festivals and events at Launceston College, including multi-skills, badminton, orienteering, volleyball, gymnastics, dance, netball and hockey.

The children from Year 1-Year 6 are also taking part in a daily Wake and Shake session at the start of everyday to wake us up and get us ready for the day of learning ahead.

Once again Launceston College Y11 PE students will be running a competitive afternoon for all children in KS2 later in the year. We will then use a similar format for our Y6 leaders to provide a competitive event for all the children in KS1.

We will have school football, netball, tag rugby, hockey, cricket, cross country, multi skills and athletics teams this year which will compete in a range of inter school events.
 
To see what we have been up to have a look at the news feed on the home page, with further photos on the class blogs.
Health and Well Being
For information on Cornwall Healthy Schools visit the website which is www.cornwallhealthyschools.org