GYMSCHOOL

GYMSCHOOL [ Gym Risk Assessment ] [ Gym Child Protection Policy ]

Talentcamp's GYMSCHOOL is suitable for boys and girls in primary school who have so far had little experience of gymnastics. The aim is to develop basic skills and confidence to allow children, should they so choose, to progress later in life to more specialist gymnastics centres. Sessions are delivered by Pat Callaghan, who is currently working as a freelance educational consultant in Physical Education within both primary and secondary schools (to check out Pat's c.v. please click here.)

A typical session would consist of the following activities:

A fun warm up
Flexibility and strengthening work
Fundamental movement skills of agility, balance and co-ordination.
Formal learning and practice of core gymnastic skills.
Opportunities for creativity through sequence composition.

All strands of the PE National Curriculum are covered within sessions, namely :

Acquisition of skill
Compositional ability
Understanding of health and fitness implications
Ability to evaluate performance of self and others.

Furthermore, in line with the latest thinking in talent development in young people, we work on all the areas of the “multi-ability profile”, specifically :

Physical
Personal
Social
Cognitive
Creative

Finally we have a simple code for all children to follow, that is "CODE RED" :

RESPECT
EFFORT
DISCIPLINE

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