Physical Education and Sport

P.E. & Sport at St. Augustine’s Catholic Primary School

Vision:

We will inspire our children to be passionate about their physical education and confident to be the best athletes they can be.

Remember, P.E. is the only subject that makes your heart race!

We encourage the children to cooperate and collaborate with others as part of an effective team using our BELIEVE values to inspire us.

Intent:

At St Augustine’s, P.E. is an essential part of the children’s learning. We fully adhere to the aims of the national curriculum for physical education to ensure that all pupils:

develop competence to excel in a broad range of physical activities
are physically active for sustained periods of time
engage in competitive sports and activities
lead healthy, active lives

Our curriculum is inclusive and provides a broad range of sporting activities available it is designed to appeal to all children of all abilities and personalities. All staff aspire to equip children with the skills and ambition to potentially become future athletes. Our P.E. lessons are enjoyable, competitive and active. Teachers are passionate about promoting healthy lifestyles and improving the fitness of our children by raising the profile of P.E. and sport around school.

KS1-curriculum-overview

KS2-PE-curriculum-Overview

In the Early Years Foundation Stage, the children are provided with many opportunities, inside and outside, to develop their fine and gross motor skills. ‘Squiggle Whilst You Wiggle’ is used in nursery to support gross motor skills in preparation for fine motor skills needed for writing. Simple ‘Dough Disco’ is also used in Nursery to strengthen the muscles in the children’s hands to help with fine motor skills such as fastening their coats, picking up small objects, threading laces, holding small tools such as scissors, paintbrushes, and mark making equipment. In Reception, ‘Dough Disco’ is continued daily to ensure the support the children in developing a comfortable and appropriate pencil grip to write. A range of other materials and tools are accessible throughout the EYFS provision including spray bottles, malleable materials such as playdough, sand, beads for threading, connecting bricks such as Duplo, Lego and Mobilo. Our EYFS outdoor area is well equipped to support with gross motor development. The children have opportunities to develop their jumping from different heights, balancing as they travel across surfaces, throwing and catching using different sizes balls or beanbags. Balance bikes are used to develop the children’s core strength in order to ride a pedal bike without stabilizers as they become more confident. Tyres are available for building, rolling, stacking and climbing.

Implementation:

We provide a wide range of PE lessons and always aspire to add to our broad and exciting curriculum. We use our PE premium funding to allow children to be taught by highly skilled coaches and teachers. Through this, staff are provided with excellent ongoing CPD, enabling them to build upon skills taught. Our curriculum is designed to promote the development of children’s confidence, resilience and appreciation of their own strengths and weakness. It also aims to build a good level of teamwork and sportsmanship to enable children to support their peers in a positive way. Children at St. Augustine’s are encouraged to move out of their comfort zones and challenge themselves across all areas of school life. Children are given many opportunities to compete in competitive sport through both intra-school and inter-school competitions and events. A wide range of extra-curricular activities are offered to children from Reception to Year 6. Activities are tailored to the children’s interests and are constantly reviewed to encourage all children to get involved in an extra-curricular activity.

At St. Augustine’s, we actively encourage good levels of physical and mental health and wellbeing across many areas of the curriculum, not just PE. However, skills taught in PE lessons underpin the values that we promote at our school. Our school ‘Attitudes of Being’ encouraged positive values including being happy, gentle, just and fair, forgiving, honest and a peacemaker. In PE lessons, we actively encourage children to remember such attitudes and in turn, use them to develop their teamwork and leadership skills, resilience and discipline. The impact of our PE curriculum is to motivate to use these skills to lead a happy and healthy lifestyle.

PE at St. Augustine’s is taught in partnership with external agencies and coaches including MFC, Urban Kaos, Teesside Lions Basketball and Yorkshire Cricket Board. Class teachers deliver lessons using the PE Passport app. The app is also used to collect lesson evidence and complete formative and summative assessments.

Teaching and Learning Model

Our PE lessons follow our school teaching and learning model. Lessons start in the classroom, this helps to create a purpose and allows the children to embed their knowledge of key vocabulary and skills, before applying them in the main, physical, part of the lesson.

Sports Leaders

We have a committed group of Year 6 sports leaders who work hard to encouraged their peers to move out of their comfort zones and challenge themselves across all areas of school. They understand the importance of living and active lifestyle and carry out their mission with our school’s PE vision at heart.

Bikeability

As a school, we understand how vital it is to expose our children to fundamental skills needed to grow and thrive as an individual. We provide many opportunities for extra-curricular activities.

Robin Wood

Impact:

By the time children leave our school, they have a good understanding of their physical and mental health and well-being, recognising the wide range of benefits of sport and exercise to help them to make healthy life choices. Ultimately, we want children to enjoy PE and recognise the positive impact it has on their body and mind. We want every child to be able to identify their strengths in PE and develop resilience to push themselves to achieve their very best. We want our children to develop good teamwork and sportsmanship skills, supporting and encouraging their peers to keep going. Where children don’t enjoy PE lessons, we aim to quickly change this mindset by supporting them to identify a form of exercise that works for them.

As pupil’s of St. Augustine’s, we:

– Are passionate about improving health and well-being

– Are keen to do our best

– Are actively involved in competitions

– Have range of curricular and extra-curricular sports clubs

– Have fun in our P.E. lessons

Competitions

The children are given the opportunity to participate in a range of competitive sports within our Trust. The impact of PE throughout our school allows our children to thrive when the opportunity arises.