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KINGSWOOD PREP IN FOCUS 2020-21 | SPORT
SPORT
Sports days are always exciting events, but these took on even greater significance this year...
It was a Summer Term like no other for sport at KPS. We were constantly aware of changing situations rules and ideas, trying, like everyone, to balance the need for safety while trying to provide the broadest range of sporting opportunities possible.
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he Summer Term started and our games lessons began with 3 weeks of netball and hockey as these were the sports students had missed out on over the Spring Term. We then got into the swing of our more traditional summer sport, cricket. However, even this was affected, as the need to share equipment made hard-ball games for our older pupils a non-starter. We had a slightly different focus this year across all these sports – we were asking ourselves how we could maximise movement and safe social interaction after so long apart, but also how we could keep up the students’ teamwork skills and develop their abilities within the different sports we played. In our PE lessons we had similar aims – could we use athletics, tennis and gymnastics to get the children moving again, working cooperatively, developing their skills and simply enjoying the experience of being physically active again.
