PE at St. Joseph’s Catholic Primary School

At St. Joseph’s we understand the importance of a positive experience of sport and physical activity at a young age, a positive experience can build a lifetime habit of participation.

We believe that physical activity is essential when aiming to create and sustain a healthy school. Through physical education children develop pupils’ physical competence, confidence and skills and helps promote positive attitudes towards active and healthy lifestyles, across the range of areas of activity. Our whole school approach is to provide a large range of opportunities to be physically active and support learning- promoting the health and well-being of all. All pupils should have the opportunity to live healthy and active lives.

At St. Joseph’s we value the importance of PE and the emotional wellbeing that comes with taking part in physical activity. We aim to ensure that our PE curriculum is fully inclusive to every child regardless of age, gender, race, faith and is inclusive to children of all abilities. Our aims are to fulfil the requirements of the National Curriculum for PE; develop competence to excel in a broad range of physical activities, children are physically active for sustained periods of time, they engage in competitive sports and activities and children lead healthy, active lives. In helping St Joseph’s to achieve this for every child, we have a specialist sports coach, who works alongside our teaching and non-teaching staff to assist in leading sport in our school. There is ongoing Sport and PE CPD for all staff in school.

Intent

We aim to deliver a high-quality physical education curriculum which inspires and challenges all pupils to succeed and excel in competitive and non-competitive sporting events and other physically-demanding activities. We provide opportunities for all pupils to become physically confident in a way which supports their health and fitness, thought the year we provide all pupils with the opportunities to compete in sport tournaments and festivals, encouraging all St Joseph’s pupils to build character and help to embed sporting values and develop a life time love for sport and a healthy/ active lifestyle.

Aims

The aims of our PE curriculum are:

  • Provide a broad and balanced range of physical activities for all pupils.
  • To provide KS1 and KS2 pupils with 2 hours of time tabled PE each week.
  • Nursery and EYS to have one hour of time tabled PE each week.
  • Provide a larger range of extra-curricular sporting clubs both before and after school
  • Promote health and wellbeing by taking part in daily Active 30:30 programme (All pupils physically active in school for an additional 30minutes a day)
  • Cover a large range of Gymnastics, Dance, Team Games, Tennis and Athletics through targeted lesson time.
  • All pupils from Y2/3, Y4/5, Y5/6 will attend weekly swimming lessons for a whole term.
  • Provide a targeted swimming intervention scheme for those children who have not swam 25m by Y6.
  • Give all KS1/2 pupils the opportunity to represent the school in competitive and non-competitive sporting tournaments and festivals.
  • Teach all pupils to be concerned about their own and others safety in all activities, including the safe movement of equipment and resources.
  • Maintain gold level Sainsbury’s School Sports Games Award.
  • Y5/6 pupils to have the opportunity to be Part of the ‘’School Sports Crew’’, delivering sports games and skills on active break times.
  • To encourage full participation in the range of Out of Hours activities made available in school.
  • Enhance the school curriculum with outside expertise.
  • Promote personal best challenges and continues improvement and development for all pupils.

Achievement of Pupils

  • Engage and enthuse pupils of all ages in PE, sport and physical activity.
  • Increase pupil confidence and competence in all areas of PE for children of all ages and ability to ensure they achieve the best they can at their own pace and level.
  • Improve pupils’ understanding of how to lead active, healthy lifestyles and encourage and promote this through our curriculum, PE and after school clubs.
  • Understand the contribution of PE to teaching in other curriculum areas.
  • Ensure all children have the opportunity to participate in competition.

Curriculum

Early Years  -Reception and Nursery

  • All Early Years and Nursery pupils will take part in tabled PE each week.
  • The PE lessons will be delivered by their class teacher or specialist sports coach from The Collective Cluster
  • Pupils will take part in the following sporting topics over the school year;
  • Autumn 1- Balance Bikes and Fine Motor Skills
  • Autumn 2- Multi Skills and Fundamental Movement Skills
  • Spring 1- Throwing, Kicking and catching
  • Spring 2- Traveling over equipment activities/Gymnastics
  • Summer 1
  • Infant Athletics
  • Sports day games.

Key Stage 1

All KS1 pupils will develop fundamental movement skills, become increasingly competent and confident and access a broad range of opportunities to extend their agility, balance and coordination, individually and with others. Pupils have the opportunity to be able to engage in competitive (both against self and against others) and co-operative physical activities, in a range of increasingly challenging situations. All KS1 pupils will take part in 2 hours of timetabled PE each week., with the PE lessons being delivered by class teacher or PE specialist.

Pupils are taught to:

  • master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination, and begin to apply these in a range of activities
  • participate in team games, developing simple tactics for attacking and defending
  • perform dances using simple movement patterns.

Sports/Activities covered in KS1:

  • Dance
  • Gymnastics
  • Team Games (Dodgeball, Football, Starter Cricket)
  • Athletics
  • Short Tennis
  • Multi Skills
  • Sports Hall Athletics
  • Sports Day Games

Key Stage 2

All KS2 pupils will continue to apply and develop a broader range of skills, learning how to use them in different ways and to link them to make actions and sequences of movement. They should enjoy communicating, collaborating and competing with each other. They will develop an understanding of how to improve in different physical activities and sports and learn how to evaluate and recognise their own success. All KS2 pupils will take part in PE lessons being delivered by class teacher or PE specialist.

Pupils are taught to:

  • Use running, jumping, throwing and catching in isolation and in combination
  • Play competitive games, modified where appropriate [for example, basketball, cricket, football, hockey, netball, rounders and tennis], and apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending
  • Developing flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance [for example, through athletics and gymnastics]
  • Perform dances using a range of movement patterns
  • Take part in outdoor and adventurous activity challenges both individually and within a team
  • Compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best.

Sports/Activities covered in KS2;

  • Dance
  • Gymnastics
  • Sports Hall Athletics
  • Team Sports- (Football, High 5 Netball, Kwik Cricket, Basketball, Dodgeball and TAG Rugby)
  • Tennis
  • Athletics

Swimming and water safety

All pupils in key stage 2 will take part in weekly swimming lessons of at least one full term each school year.

Pupils are taught to:

  • Swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
  • Use a range of strokes effectively [for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke]
  • safe self-rescue in different water-based situations.

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