Physical Education

Why do we teach PE?

At St Peters we highly value the contribution of PE to the health and wellbeing of our children. We strongly believe that providing our children with a varied curriculum and huge range of extra-curricular activities, promotes positive benefits in terms of: concentration, motivation and development of self-esteem. These in turn directly impact all aspects of learning and contribute to a happy and healthy lifestyle. As a school we strive to give all of the children the opportunity to experience team work, appreciate the importance of fair play and most of all develop a love for physical activity.

What do we teach in PE?

The School has fabulous sports facilities, including a lovely playing field, extensive playgrounds and a big hall. These facilities enable us to provide the children with a wide and varied PE curriculum. The scheme of work is carefully planned from Reception to Year 6 to include: dance, gymnastics, athletics and ball games such as: cricket, tennis, hockey and basketball. Skills and knowledge are built into every lesson and small games provide opportunity to learn game strategy and experience competition.

We also participate in a wide range of sporting events with our locality schools including: football, netball, cricket, rounders, benchball, tag rugby, athletics, cross country, bocce and curling. Several events are run specifically for participation to allow a greater number of children to experience competitive sport.

Inter- house events are run within school in: netball, football, rounders, cross country and athletics. A table tennis competition runs in the summer term in singles and doubles.

Children are given the opportunity to develop their sporting skills further in a wide selection of after school clubs that are offered. These include activities such as: street dance, netball, football, benchball, tennis, karate, rounders and cross country. Clubs are very popular!

A Sportscrew made up of children from Years 5 and 6, run mini events during lunchtimes to engage and inspire younger children across the school to participate in competition. This also allows the older children to develop their organisational and leadership skills.

We are very lucky to have an all-weather running track around our field. Each class runs on this on a daily basis, as part of the ‘Daily Mile’ initiative. Children develop their stamina and fitness and are able to achieve individual goals. The children really love the track and talk about how it ‘energises’ them. We have noticed a marked improvement in levels of both fitness and concentration and it has directly fed into some fantastic achievements at cross country competitions.

We are very lucky to have additional funding from the government to enable us to enhance PE at St Peter’s. Please see Sports funding link for more information.

WOW!

St Peter’s has a long held tradition as being a very successful sporting school. Our commitment to providing the children with opportunities to participate, compete and lead has been recognised with the coveted award of the Gold Sportsmark.

Children love PE lessons and show great enthusiasm. Participation in sporting clubs is very high and a real pride is taken in representing their school in competitions.

Despite huge disruption due to covid, the children have achieved excellent results in sporting competitions so far this year including:

4^th place in the area partnership netball finals
3^rd place in the area partnership football finals (year 4 team)
6 of our Year 5/6 children were chosen to represent the Southern area at the regional cross country competition.