On March 12th,  a group of 20 dancers from Year 4, 5 and 6 travelled to the Arts Depot to perform at the Barnet Dance Festival. Schools from all over the borough took part in a celebration of dance and demonstrated what they had been working on.  As always Miss Georgia had choreographed a wonderful routine full of drama, technique and expression that was clearly one of the stand out performances of the night. Our students showcased all of their talent and hard work putting on a marvellous show. Rehearsing every lunchtime for the last couple of months had clearly paid off as they entranced the audience with their wonderful routine and finished to an enormous ovation. A huge well done to everyone involved and thank you to all of the families that came to support.  

Barnet Football Club have been part of a community project in our school over the last few moths. Our students in year 4 have had the opportunity to take part in PE sessions run by coaches from the club  and will be attending a visit to the stadium in April. 

The club have also offered our families free tickets to a recent game, that saw Barnet win 3-1 and extend their lead at the top of the national league. In addition to this free game, many of our students were selected to be player mascots for the day and walked the players out onto the pitch.  KS2 children were also surprised by a player visit with first team players Idris Kanu and Adebola Oluwo, who shared their experiences of becoming  professional footballers. It was great to hear from the players and build connections with our local club. 

Barnet FC are also working hard to return to the Underhill area in the near future with the 'Bring Barnet Back' campaign. So many of us remember growing up with Barnet Football Club local to this area and it would be amazing to have them close by for our community once again. If you would like to find out more details or get involved int he campaign click the link below. 

https://www.bringbarnetback.com/

Here at Brunswick park the PE  curriculum is designed to support our students with a unique and holistic approach. Our PE philosophy is based on the latest research around effective PE and curriculum guidance as well as being bespoke to our school, our students and our environment.  Take a look at our PE mission statement below and the 4 areas of learning we look to focus on throughout the school. 

Our mission is to develop the physical, social, cognitive and emotional skills of all students through the vehicle of Physical Education. We want the children to develop a lifelong love of sport and movement, using PE to impact on the holistic development of every child.  To achieve this, we aim to equip children with core physical competencies as well as focusing on developing confidence and mastery in these different learning areas. Through a spiral curriculum approach, we have developed units that will revisit key learning themes, allowing progression across a range of different sporting and physical contexts. These themes will build on previous learning to bring about opportunities to improve confidence, depth of learning and mastery in each of our key learning areas. 

Using this philosophy we have split our curriculum into 4 areas that show the impact PE can have on the whole child. We have created key values in each of these areas that we hope to develop in our students through the use of PE