A major rethink over children's health needs is seeing activities like yoga and 'mindfulness' take their place alongside traditional PE and sporting competition.

That is the view of Jamie Miles, the deputy headteacher at St Edward's Royal Free Ecunemical School in Parsonage Lane, as he chairs a new strategy group to plan for the future of the Windsor School Sports Partnership.

The Partnership is celebrating its birthday after 15 years of supervising sport in schools across Windsor, Datchet and Wraysbury.

Slough Observer: Mr Miles said: "There has been a shift of focus in recent years - an awareness that mental health needs can be important as well as physical health needs. 

"Yoga sessions and mindfulness sessions can also play their part."

He praised the Windsor School Sports Partnership for the way its development manager Chantal Roe-Gammon, games co-ordinator Mark Bignal and three coaches had continued to work at schools in Windsor, Wraysbury and Datchet throughout lockdown.

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He said: "Pupils who were children of frontline service workers and those with special requirements still came to school even when most children were being taught at home.

"The Windsor Sports Partnership team made sure they were there too to meet their requirements.

"They never worried they might be putting themselves at risk."

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Mr Miles started work at St Edward's as sports co-ordinator at the same time as the Sports Partnership was set up in 2005 - becoming deputy head five years later.

He said school sports partnerships have seen a lot of changes over the years.

Funding used to come directly from the Government.

Now it comes through the specially set up Government body Sport England and the economic climate has had an inevitable effect - with schools having to dip into their general funds sometimes to cover sporting activities.

Mr Miles - who is father to three himself - is now looking forward to returning to his original sporting 'remit' as he helps a dedicated team plan for pupils' sporting future across the Windsor area over the next 15 years.