Physical Education

Intent:

“Inspire a generation”

The purpose of Physical Education (P.E) is to inspire and motivate all children to be active in their lives, enabling them to become physically confident. The importance of living a healthy lifestyle and taking regular exercise needs to be encouraged, alongside the teaching of key fundamental skills. Children should have opportunities to apply the skills they have learnt in competitive situations, either within teams or individually. As a result, key values, including team work, resilience, determination and fair play, can be taught and promoted in an active way. We want children at St. Mary's to be equipped with the physcial literacy and emotional, social and cognitive thinking skills which go beyond the school walls.

We believe these key values are vital for pupils’ development because lots of these are transferable skills, which can be applied to wider life.

Implementation:

The purpose of P.E at St. Mary's is to ensure pupils enjoy P.E lessons and develop positive attitudes towards physical activity. We aim to make all lessons accessible by providing a range of different activities to challenge every pupil. Our PE curriculum aims to be inclusive with a broad range range of activities that ensure all children of any ability are encouraged to be physically active for sustained periouds of time.  

We offer two hours of P.E on a weekly basis, with opportunities to participate both indoors and outdoors.

This time enables children to be active for a sustained period and provides opportunities to learn and apply skills. All children are required to wear school P.E kit during these lessons. 

Competitions across the County

St Mary's takes an active part in competitions against other schools across the county. Throughout the academic year, children have various opportunities to showcase their sporting abilities across a range of events against other children from schools across Warwickshire. Some of these competitions include:

• The School Games; which include a variety of competitive events such as: Indoor Athletics, Rowing (boys and girls), Gymnastics, Multi-skills and Modern Pentathlon.
• The Catholic Sports; which include events including: Football (league and cup), Netball (league and cup), Football/Netball Rally, Cross Country, Swimming, Cricket, Girls Football (tournament) and Athletics. 
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At St. Mary's, we offer a range of extra-curricular clubs and activities which vary throughout the school year. If you would like further information about the current clubs and activities, please contact the school office.

impact:

We help motivate children to participate in a variety of sports through quality teaching that is engaging and fun. From our lessons, our children learn to take responsibility for their own health and fitness, many of whom also enjoy the success of competitive sports. We equip our children with the necessary skills and a love for sport. They will hopefully grow up to live happy and healthy lives utilising the skills and knowledge acquired through PE. We link our physical health with our mental health and use this to encourage growth mind sets and well-being.