West Lodge has many talented children within the area of PE. They are able to see the value of the skills they are learning and know what good and high quality PE looks like, understanding that PE is essential for a healthy lifestyle. The children feel safe in their environment to take risks and challenge themselves. PE at West Lodge enables children to apply a wide range of skills to great effect both within the curriculum and beyond.

Sports Captains 2025/2026

We are happy to announce that we have new sports captains this academic year. All the candidates gave very inspiring and motivating speeches, that demonstrated any one of them were ready to lead the sports for their houses with the upmost pride and determination. The children with the most votes from their house and newly elected sports captains are:

• Rashford House - Anushka and Arun
• Turing House - Aman and Audrey
• Thunberg House - Anishka and Riansh
• Seacole House - Dhruvya and Aaran

Swimming at West Lodge

We provide weekly swimming lessons for all children in Year 5 (Year 4 at the end of the year) and our aim is to ensure that each child leaves West Lodge having achieved the National Curriculum standard. Raising awareness amongst the community and creating better links between West Lodge families and Highgrove will play a crucial role in helping all children to become confident swimmers and develop this crucial life skill. We encourage families to use the facilities at Highgrove as a supplement to lessons organised through the school.

Our boys football team attended another tournament to represent West Lodge which saw us competing with six other schools. The boys were very unfortunate to lose on penalties ending the tournament for us after seven hard fought matches in which every single player who participated should be proud of.

 

The girls took part in the Harrow Girls Football Tournament and performed amazingly well as a team, progressing all the way to the quarter finals (top 8 out of 30) where they conceded their only goal of the tournament to unfortunately lose 1-0 after winning their first four games with clean sheets.

Active 30:30

This academic year at West Lodge, we are aiming to implement active 30:30. Science has shown the benefits that being active has on our brains after just 20 minutes of walking and how that results in being able to retain new information and re-call previous learning better. Due to this, we are encouraging our children to have 30 minutes of activity during the day at school (not including break times) and 30 minutes of activity at home. We would like all families to find as many fun and creative ways to stay active for a total of at least 30 minutes at home, for both the physical and mental benefits of the children.

Active Families

The following information is taken from the British Heart Foundation Website (https://www.bhf.org.uk/heart-health/preventing-heart-disease/staying-active/staying-active-as-a-family) which offers good advice and practical ways to keep your heart healthy.

How can we be active as a family?

• Walk to and from school together.
• Ask children what activities they enjoy. Encourage them to follow their interests, and make activity fun – make a kite and fly it together, teach them to run, skip or use a hula hoop.
• Play active games with your child both indoors and out. For example, chasing, hide and seek, hopscotch and skipping.
• Find time to spend together doing a fun activity: a trip to the park, the swimming pool or a family bike ride.
• You can also sign up to one of our events, such as a run or a swim, and take on a challenge as a family.

The type of activity that helps your heart most is called moderate intensity aerobic activity. Aerobic activity is a repetitive rhythmic exercise involving large muscle groups such as your legs, shoulders and arms.

Moderate intensity aerobic activities make you feel warmer, breathe harder and make your heart beat faster than usual. But you should still be able to have a conversation.

Doing regular activity together as a family can help your children develop a positive attitude towards physical activity. Children learn by watching what parents do so show your child you enjoy and value activity by taking part yourself – and you’ll all feel the benefits in the long term.

Websites to Encourage Active Lifestyles

Here you will find a list of websites which have further information and activity ideas.

Change 4 Life

https://www.nhs.uk/change4life/activities#XPkBSJaWRwyj3gxc.97

GoNoodle (We use this at West Lodge. You can set up your own free account at home)

https://www.gonoodle.com/

Just Dance (Lots of fun videos to dance along to!)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChIjW4BWKLqpojTrS_tX0mg

https://just-dance.ubisoft.com/en-us/home/

Just Dance Now

http://justdancenow.com/

This Girl Can (Activity Ideas particularly aimed at older girls)

http://www.thisgirlcan.co.uk/activities/

Dan the Skipping Man

https://www.youtube.com/dantheskippingman

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Our Year 1 and 2 gymnastics teams took part in the Harrow Gymnastics Competition. After months of hard work and dedication, the children finally got a chance to showcase their fantastic abilities. Each child completed their routines and disciplines fantastically and did a great job to impress the judges, leading to both the Year 1s and the Year 2s finishing in 1st place in their respective competitions.

 

In addition to the fantastic team medals, there were bonus prizes for Zackary - who finished 3rd out of all the Year 1 boys, Georgia - who finished 2nd out of all the Year 1 girls, Saanvi - finished 3rd in the Year 2 girls and finally Nour finished 2nd out of the Year 2 girls.

Our Year 3 and 4 gymnastics team took part in the Harrow competition. After months of hard work and practise, they finally had their chance to show off everything they had learnt and they did so in spectacular style. Both the Year 3 team and Year 4 team won their respective competitions and became the new champions of Harrow.

Some children also did extremely well individually, with Aarna finishing third and Anvi placing second in the Year 3 girls. Chloe and Mia came joint 3rd, Ava finished second and Caitlin was awarded first place in the Year 4 girls. Finally, Arhum place first in the Year 4 boys. Well do to all the children, supportive parents and Shelley for all the effort that went into this great success.

Our boys cricket team attended the West London Finals after qualifying as Harrow champions. The day started perfectly for the team as they recorded an impressive victory against Lady Margaret School from Ealing, this was followed by victory against the excellent Sudbury Primary from Brent. With confidence sky-high, the boys continued to grow from strength to strength as they won their group and qualified for the knock-out rounds.

 

The team faced Durdans Park from Ealing in the quarter-finals and faced a tough bowling attack: West Lodge were restricted to a score of 23 runs. However thanks to their consistent bowling; eagled-eyed fielding and a game-turning hat-trick from Aaran the team were able to restrict their opposition to a very low score.

 

In the semi-final West faced John Bett School from Hammersmith and Fulham - with excellent bowling and fielding West Lodge restricted them to a very low run rate and deservedly eased their way into the West London final. Here they met a familiar opponent: Sudbury Primary, who they had played earlier in the tournament. Sudbury had clearly worked on their errors from earlier in the day and played with real grit. After batting first, they set West Lodge a very challenging target of 50 runs, which was just too much for the team to chase, although they attempted to valiantly.

The boys ended the day as West London runners-up, another fantastic result for the team and the school in a very successful academic year for West Lodge cricket!

After finishing as runners up in their Harrow competition, the girls cricket team qualified to take part as one of the two Harrow representatives at the West London Finals, which were held at Brunel University. After a close opening game, which they lost by just 4 runs, the girls rallied together inspiringly and fought through the rest of the tournament. Due to winning their second group game, they had done enough to qualify, where they met the winners of another group in the quarter finals. Now in a good rhythm, the team powered to a dominating victory, before winning their semi-final match by over 20 runs to book a place in the final.

The final was a very close encounter against St Mary's, a team that had beaten West Lodge in the semi-finals of the indoor-cricket tournament at Lords earlier in the year. St Mary's were by far the hardest team the girls played and going in to the final over, St Mary's needed just 10 runs to win. After the first 4 balls, they had reduced the amount needed to 6 runs, but two excellent final dot balls meant West Lodge's girls were deservedly crowned West London Champions!

Our Quad Kids Athletics Team of five boys and five girls proudly represented Harrow at the West London Finals, competing against the very best schools from across the six West London boroughs. Each child took part in four events: the 75m sprint, standing long jump, turbo howler throw and 600m distance run.

The team produced an outstanding all-round performance to finish 3rd in West London. There were some excellent individual performances, throughout the competition. In the standing long jump, every boy jumped over 2 metres, while the girls posted very good times in the 75m sprint.