Sports News

At St. Paul's, we value physical activity through P.E, active break times and out of school opportunities. Children are offered after school sports clubs throughout the year. We attend competitions held by Sport Development and the West Oldham Sports Cluster. We also seek other competitive opportunities such as local football leagues, netball leagues and make links with clubs for other sports such as cricket.

PE and Sport Report for 2024-2025

This year, we are continuing with our membership of the West Oldham Sports Cluster. We have a calendar of competitions to attend each week on Tuesdays. We have also entered into the Oldham School football and netball league on Wednesdays at OCL.

During the autumn term there will be sports clubs available for children to attend after school as follows:

Monday - Yr 5&5 netball with Miss. Woolley

Tuesday - Yr 3&4 football with Laura

Thursday - Yr 3&4 netball with Miss. Woolley

Friday - Yr 5&6 football with Shane (Adelaide Crusaders)

Results:

Yr 5&6 football competition - 1st and 4th place

Cross Country - overall 2nd place

Sportshall Athletics Yr 3&4 - 1st place

                                    Yr 5&6 - 1st place

Football league match 1 v Burnley Brow A - won 1-0

                            match 2 v Alex Park - won 2-0

                            match 3 v Greenfield - won 1-0

                            match 4 v Horton Mill - lost 3-1

                            match 5 v Burnley Brow B - won 1-0

Netball league match 1 v Hodge Clough - won 1-2

                           match 2 v South Failsworth - won 6-1

                           match 3 v Willow Park won 5-0

                           match 4 St. Herbert's - lost 11-1

In the Oldham Schools' Cross Country Championship, Katie in Yr 5,  finished in 2nd place in the Yr 5&6 girls and boys race. There were over 40 children running and Katie won the girls race with ease, with only one boy finishing ahead of her. She will now represent Oldham in the Greater Manchester Cross Country Championship next year. Well done Katie!

As part of our membership of OACT, we have the opportunity to play on the pitch at half time in an Oldham Athletic match. We did this during the match with Yeovil Town, winning against Delph Primary School 2-1. We also gave Stanley in Yr 5 the opportunity to be a mascot for the match too.

PE and Sport Report for 2023.2024

2023-2024 has seen an increase in participation in sports fixtures.

 We participate as a school in the Hathershaw Cluster competitions (Sport Development), opportunities provided by Oldham Athletic Community Trust and the Oldham Football and Netball Leagues.

There are 20 schools in the Hathershaw Cluster and there is one competition per week. All age groups have a competition organised for them across the term.

This year:

• KS1 children have taken part in orienteering, multi-skills and dance events.
• Year 3&4 have taken part in orienteering, football, athletics, multi-skills, dance, archery, tag rugby and cricket competitions.
• Year 5&6 have taken part in football, athletics, dodgeball, handball, tag rugby, dance, archery and netball competitions.

We have taken part in the Oldham Schools football and netball leagues and have played in tournaments organised by OACT (for football) and England Netball.

 Children from Yr 5&6 were given the opportunity to play on the pitch at half time in the Oldham Athletic v Eastleigh match.

Clubs for children in KS2 in netball and rounders.

OACT have provided clubs for children from Yr 1-6 in football.

Miss. Martland has provided a general sports club for children from Yr 1-6. including gymnatstics.

Mrs Wood has provided dance lessons across the school linked to their topical learning in class.

Children in Yr 6 have been trained in leadership and have led physical activity for children across school at lunchtimes. Children in Yr 5 are currently training to be a sports captain next year.

Health Champions have attended workshops and provided healthy body-healthy mind activities throughout school. They organised a successful ‘walk to school’ week with incentives for children to participate and prizes for the winning classes.

The sports council have planned and organised sports week with an Olympic theme. Children have been allocated teams based on Spanish speaking countries to link with Spanish week.

We have had training for the whole staff provided by OACT three times throughout the year.

Last year, we achieved our 5^th School Games Gold Award in a row which enabled us to apply for a Platinum School Games Mark. We were successful in this application and were one of only two schools in Oldham to achieve Platinum. This lasts for two years then we will apply for Gold again and if successful apply to maintain our Platinum status.

Here are some of our teams from 2023-2024. Please enjoy the slideshow:

INSPIRATION

How many children can we inspire to take part in sport?

Will you follow in the footsteps of some of our ex-pupils?

Ryan Kent - playing for Glasgow Rangers Football Club.

Ryan has played for Liverpool FC and England Under 18's. He currently plays for Rangers in the Scottish Premier League.

Jack Hutchins - playing for Peterborough United Football Club

Amelia Hall - captain and player of the tournament in Oldham Netball Club's 'Under 14 National Clubs' winning team.

Amelia has also played for Manchester Thunder NPL and England Under 19 Academy Squad. In 2021 she played for Leeds Rhinos in the Netball Superleague and was voted the Players' Player of the Season.

Amy Clinton - player of the tournament in Oldham Netball Club's 'Under 16 National Clubs' winning team.

Amy has played in the Netball Superleague for Celtic Dragons, Loughborough Lightning, Leeds Rhinos and has returned to play for Manchester Thunder in 2023. She has also represented the England Under 21 squad and received a call up to the full international squad.

Christopher Brown - runs for Trafford Athletics Club.

He has represented the Greater Manchester County Teams in cross country and track in the English Schools Championships and at club level.

He has represented the North West region in the London Mini Marathon and won the Great North Junior run in 2009.

Luke Founde swims for 2 teams and trains 6 times a week. He has won 26 medals since January 2016, most of which have been gold. He qualified for the Lancashire County Championships where he swam against 45 swimmers in the 10-11 category (aged 10). He knocked 2 seconds of his personal best and was now ranked as number 36 in the county. Luke  has autism and required lots of support at school. He has clearly 'found' his niche and avenue in which to focus his skills. Well done Luke.

Cayci Mooney competes for Eclipse Acro Gymnastics Club. Here she is winning a gold medal in a recent gymnastics competition:

Oliver Parry who competed in the 2022 British Nationals in the age 14 category. Only the top 24 swimmers in the country were selected. Oliver also achieved a gold medal in the regional championships in the under 16 50m Backstroke.