Physical Education

Subject Leader - Miss Mahoney

Intent

St Joseph’s Physical Education (PE) curriculum encourages all children to participate in and enjoy competitive sports and physical activities. Our curriculum provides opportunities for children to lead an active and healthy lifestyle, as well as building personal traits such as respect, fairness and good sportsmanship. We offer a wide range of sports and physical activities that give children the opportunity to co-operate and collaborate as a team, whilst also teaching important life skills such as swimming. Overall, our curriculum aims to improve the physical and emotional wellbeing and fitness of all children at St Joseph’s, including those with additional needs or disabilities or those who display particular strengths and talents in an area of PE.

Implementation

• PE at St Joseph’s provides challenging and enjoyable learning through a range of sporting activities including; invasion games, net & wall games, strike and field games, gymnastics, dance, swimming and outdoor & adventure.
• The long term plan and progression of skills documents carefully maps out which PE units are to be taught throughout the year, ensuring the National Curriculum requirements are fully met.
• All children will participate in 2 PE lessons each week. Additionally, there are various extra-curricular activities available before and after school. 
• There are many opportunities for children to partake in various competitions within school and outside of school. Each competition is different and will cater to different ages and abilities, including children with SEN, ensuring we are using an inclusive approach to encourage physical development and mental well-being for all students taking part.
• There are 6 Sports Leaders spread over Year 4, 5 and 6 who act as role models for the younger children. Sports Leaders assist with break time and lunch time clubs, maintaining sports equipment and assisting within PE lessons through modelling technique.
• Children in Year 5 have swimming lessons once a week for 12 weeks in the Summer term. 
• All classes complete the “Daily Mile” at least once a week to help meet the government target of all children being active for at least 60 minutes a day.
• “Taster” sessions and workshops are completed throughout the year covering a variety of sports, allowing opportunity to children to try something new and develop and improve their fitness. 

Impact

Through our delivery, children are motivated and given the opportunity to take part in a variety of different and unique sports. This is supported through quality teaching and assessment that is engaging and fun. Children are taught to take ownership for their own health and fitness, as well as enjoying participating in competitive sport. We give our children the skills needed to grow up to live happy and healthy lives.

Click here to view the PE policy.

Click here to view the rules and expectations for PE at St Joseph's.

Below you will find our whole school long term plan:

Long Term Plan 2023-24

The national Curriculum expectations can be found HERE.

Greater Depth

Outdoor learning

With a strong ethos for outdoor learning, we believe that not only does this assist with the strengthening and consolidation of pupils learning and understanding, but also creates real life experiences and opportunities for our children in their natural environment. Our outdoor spaces can be used in many cross curricular areas, allowing children to understand and respect the world around us. 

Assessment in PE

All staff assess the children in PE during lessons (ongoing assessment) and at the end of each unit. Ongoing assessment is very important in PE as it is a practical subject. Records of what the children have achieved are tracked and passed onto the next teacher to enable learning and progression to continue. Those children that show a particular aptitude are given opportunities to represent the school in competitions and encouraged to join local clubs to receive specialist coaching.

PE Uniform

Please ensure that your child comes to school wearing the correct PE kit on the 'PE days'.

This consists of the following:

Indoor PE kit

• White t-shirt
• Navy shorts
• Black pumps

Outdoor PE kit

• White t-shirt
• Navy tracksuit bottoms
• Trainers
• A navy PE hoody can be worn to keep warm. Alternatively, a school red jumper can be worn.

Please wear plain t-shirts and tracksuit bottoms without large logos or labels. Thank you.

Check out what sort of things we get up to in PE and school sports at St Joseph's!