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Physical Education and Sport at Westcroft School

At Westcroft, we believe that PE and Sport are vital in bringing our vision of developing lifelong skills for our pupils. We warmly welcome the Government’s ongoing support in maintaining high-quality PE and Sport provision throughout the 2025-26 academic year. This support allows us to develop children’s physical wellbeing alongside their education, helping them become healthier both mentally and physically.

How We Use This Support at Westcroft

We are extremely proud of our pupils’ enthusiasm and dedication to physical activity and school sport, whether through out of hours sports clubs, lunchtime activities, sports days, or participating in competitions.

Westcroft is committed to delivering consistently high-quality PE lessons that improve children’s health, fitness, wellbeing, and understanding of sport, teamwork, and citizenship. We foster an inclusive environment where all pupils enjoy participating in sport and feel empowered to be their best.

One way we’ve invested in sport is by updating our PE resources and enhancing off site opportunities to encourage fitness activities outside of the classroom. 

We also continue our partnership with the Youth Sport Trust as a Lead Inclusion School. This enables us to work locally with other schools to develop inclusive opportunities for all pupils across the City. Westcroft is also a host school for a Specialist School Games Organiser and as such we plan and deliver a host of competition both locally and regionally for pupils with Special Educational Needs.

Through ongoing sports clubs and events, we aim to make a lasting positive impact on every child’s health, fitness, and wellbeing.

Recognising the importance of swimming as a life-saving skill and a fitness activity, we have prioritised funding for additional staffing for swimming sessions this year and last. We will continue to offer a wide range of sporting opportunities, including competitions and festivals.

To promote the value of a healthy, active lifestyle, our children regularly participate in inter-school tournaments, sports days, Sports Relief events, and various sports challenges bot in school and within our local community.