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At Esh Winning, we work closely with the Durham and Chester le Street School Sports Partnership, who provide quality coaching sessions to our children throughout the year. Their coaches work alongside our teaching staff to ensure the quality delivery of a range of sports and to enable our teaching staff to be confident to deliver these sessions going forward.

As part of our partnership, we have access to many different events throughout the year that all children from Early Years to Year 6 can attend. These events have included: gymnastics carousels, cricket and tennis festivals, football league competitions, all delivered at other sites, as well as fun runs and taster sessions delivered at our school.

We aim to provide a variety of after school clubs to give our children further opportunities to participate in physical activity. These have included multi-sports, fitness, dodgeball, among others, all provided by fully qualified coaches. There are also weekly football training sessions, ran by members of staff within school.

Each year at Esh Winning, we take part in the Active 30 initiative. This is a scheme in which we pledge for each pupil to be active each day for a minimum of 30 minutes and if we achieve this we receive a certificate. We achieved this in the last school year and are well on target to achieve this again. In order to help us hit our 30 minutes of activity every day, our school provides plenty of opportunities including our OPAL resources for break and lunch times, a Daily Mile course that classes often use at various times throughout the day, alongside our two sessions of PE each week and access to various after school clubs.

For the last two years we have held our Children’s Cancer Run, a whole school fun run in which we aimed to raise money for Children’s cancer charities. These have proven to be extremely successful, and great fun, so we are holding this event again this school year.