Rights Respecting Schools Award

Children at Manadon will apply and develop a broad range of skills and sports in order to develop their own physical literacy. They will learn how to enjoy communicating, collaborating and competing with each other and develop an understanding of how to improve in different physical activities and sports whilst learning how to evaluate and recognise their skills and abilities.

‍

Together with the Plymouth School Sports Partnership (Plymouth SSP - News), District Sports (Home), YMCA Plymouth (YMCA Plymouth | Supporting our community - Education, Health, Families) and School Games (Your School Games - Your School Games), here at Manadon School there are plenty of opportunities to get involved with sport at all levels.

‍

**RightsRespecting Schools Award and School Games Gold Award**

Inclusion and Accessibility - Work to ensure all young people, regardless of ability or background, can take part and achieve 60 Active Minutes of physical activity a day.
Youth Voice and Leadership - Provides young people with leading, coaching, or officiating opportunities to support personal development.
Positive Experience and Engagement - Focuses on enjoyment to encourage regular involvement in sport and physical activity.
Community Links - Activities signpost young people to relevant community sports opportunities for continued participation.
Spirit of the Games Values - Promotes determination, eco-friendliness, honesty, passion, respect, self-belief, and teamwork.
Youth-Informed Design - Activities are age-appropriate and involve young people (through pupil voice/school council and sports leaders) in their design and delivery.
School Games Formats - Incorporates National Governing Body competition formats to enhance structure and engagement.

‍

Interschool Competition

Connect Academy Cross Country @ Widey

‍

PSSP Cross Country Finals - October

Amazing performance form the teams in year 3,4,5 and 6. Despite it being windy, the sun was out and the children were able to enjoy the races.

All the children competed with great enthusiasm and made new friends. Particular well done must go to Ben, Felicity and Erryn who finished in the top 5 of their respective events.

‍

PAFC yr3/4 Football at Manadon Hub - November

‍

PAFC Knock Out Cup vs Glen Park (1-2)

Unfortunately in a very close match the mixed team have been knocked out in the second round.

‍

Connect Academy Netball @Eggbuckland

A great chance for players who are new to netball take on schools from other

‍

School Games Bee Netball - January

Fantastic job from the school team, who qualified first and unbeaten in their group. Next month they will travel to Paignton to compete in the Devon regional finals!

‍

‍Year 3/4 Indoor Athletics at Life Centre

‍

Rowing at Life Centre - The year 6s have been practising rowing at school and a few were able to compete at the Life Centre.

Devon County Netball Competition - Well done to the team to making it to the Devon county championships. They played some extremely good teams and came away with some excellent results!

Connect Academy Squares Tournament (y3/4) @ Manadon Vale

5 different schools came together with children, who have never represented their school before taking part in a throwing and catching game called Squares. In total, 16 pupils (8 boys and 8 girls) from Manadon took part. Every child had a great time and definitely showed respect and enjoyment in joining in. Well done all!

‍

Plymouth Girls Football Cup - Well done to the girls for finishing unbeaten without conceding a goal. We may have lost the penalty shootout at the end but we have made it through to the county finals :)

Cheerleading Festival

Dance Festival - Plymouth Life Centre (May 2025)

‍

Devon County Girls Football (Newton Abbot - May 2025)

A tough day against some very good teams. Despite being a key player down the girls were amazing today and were great role models for the school.

Rounders Festival - July

‍

House Tournaments

The house captains, who have been elected by the children, choose and train their teams ready for the house competitions. The competitions themselves are organised by a team of sports leaders helping to develop their leadership skills.

Cross Country Competition (Upper School boys/girls and Lower School boys/girls) - October 2024

Intent: To improve health, To increase motivation, To develop character and life skills

‍

House Handball (Y6 only)

Intent: Increase participation

‍

Football Mixed Competition --WINNERS: MEAVY - March 2025

‍

Intent: To develop confidence, and build social skills, To develop different sport specific skills

‍

Football Girls Competition --WINNERS: DART - March 2025

Intent: To develop confidence and build social skills, To develop different sport specific skills

‍

Squares Festival - KS2 Lower School

Intent: To foster social connections

‍

House Rounders Competition - July 2025

Intent: To increase knowledge of sports.

‍

💛 Happy World Kindness Day! 💛 At Manadon Vale, kindness is something we celebrate every day! We are so proud of all the wonderful ways our school community spreads kindness. A little reminder to all our parents and carers that our Kindness Postbox is located in reception! 📮 You can add a little message of kindness for a member of staff or one of our children. Our postbox is emptied every few weeks, and the lovely messages are shared with their recipients to spread a little extra happiness. Let’s keep spreading kindness, making people smile and showing that even the smallest acts can make the biggest difference!

View on Facebook

📢 Music Club: Upcoming events 📢 - The PTFA's Kickstart to Christmas event, where members of the choir and orchestra will be performing in the school hall. 💙🎄🎶 - Christmas Carols at Home Park with PAFC - this is a free, public event with players from PAFC in attendance, as well as Pilgrim Pete! ⚽️🎄🎶 Electronic copies of the registration links have been sent out via email. Members will be bringing paper copies home today. We hope to see you all there! - Miss Eastgate

View on Facebook

✨ Year 5: DT, maths and science round-up! ✨ In DT, we've been building free-standing wooden towers, inspired by New York skyscrapers. We've learnt that hot glue is hot (doh!) and that resin pets are everyone's favourite decoration. 💅 In maths, we ditched the maths books as a Friday treat and learnt about factors and multiples with a little help from the whiteboard pens. 🥳 In science, we've been learning all about space and recapping our understanding of the solar system with some hands on activities. 🌕 Well done, Year 5! You're all gems! 💎

View on Facebook

Introducing our Kindness Postbox at Manadon Vale! We are so excited to be launching our very own Kindness Postbox this Monday! A letter has been sent home to everyone today with more information. The postbox will live in reception. Our wonderful Year 5 Kindness Monitors as pictured in the photo will be helping me spread a little happiness 🌟 How does it work? 💛 Parents/carers, staff and children are all welcome to post a kind or thank you message in our postbox to anybody in our school community this can include staff & children. 💛 The postbox will be open before and after school (children must be accompanied by a parent/carer) and at breaktime for the first few weeks with our Year 5 Kindness Monitors. 💛 Postcards will be available next to the postbox. You might like to take one home, write your message and bring it back another day to post. 💛 Myself and our Kindness Ambassadors will empty the postbox every few weeks and make sure the messages reach their recipients. There is absolutely no pressure to get involved. Thank you for your support Mrs Barber

View on Facebook

PE

Rights Respecting Schools Award

Interschool Competition

House Tournaments