Sports and healthy lifestyles week at Greenbank Primary School

Date published: 01 July 2019

Schoolchildren of all ages at Greenbank Primary celebrated their second sports and healthy lifestyles week during the last week of June.

All children from nursery to Year 6 had an exciting week off timetable, participating in a range of different physical and sporting activities.

Every day, regardless of the weather, the children took part in a range of activities run by school staff and visitors such as netball, football, orienteering, tag rugby, archery, skipping, rounders, athletics, bench ball and ultimate frisbee.

Some of the sessions were made possible thanks to Lancashire Cricket Club, East Street Personal Trainers and Rochdale Football in the Community Trust.

Allotment sessions were also run for each class and their parents to establish the brand-new school allotment plots, and healthy eating sessions were run in each class to provide healthy eating information and to allow children to make a taste a healthy snack.

Children were also taught about the importance of looking after their teeth by the oral health team and mini health checks for parents and staff were run by health trainers.

Emily Paterson, Curriculum Leader and PE Leader, said: “The week was a great success and we hope for the same next year.”