Best Practice

Case study: Making PE and sports a priority

With today’s educational climate focusing on literacy and numeracy, PE can sometimes be left behind. Not so at Birchwood Primary. Suzanne O’Connell finds out how deputy headteacher Melanie Alexander and her team have made PE and sports a priority

Birchwood Primary School is located on the outskirts of Ipswich. It prides itself on its rich curriculum which is supported by its four Birchwood “Bolts”. These national areas of excellence include sporting excellence, being a forest school, an eco-school and being a Gold Food For Life Partnership School.

Deputy headteacher, Melanie Alexander, is committed to making PE a high-profile subject in her school. She explained: “We have received the Association for Physical Education Quality Mark with distinction 2015-18 and retained the School Games Gold Mark for PE three years running. Keeping children fit and active is at the heart of everything we do.”

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