P.E.
Why do we teach Physical Education at St Clare's School?
At St Clare's, we want to encourage a lifelong love of physical activity. Ensuring that you are physically active provides plenty of health benefits such as greater self-esteem, physical and mental wellbeing. Physical Education (PE) provides an opportunity for children to find a passion to be physically active.
PE at St Clare's can be the starting point for our children to enter the professional sports industry as an athlete, coach, official or other sports based career.
Our curriculum is designed to holistically develop every child through six cogs which develop their social, cognitive, physical, creative, personal and health and fitness. Throughout these lessons, children are given the opportunity to develop and refine their fundamental movement skills, whilst participating in competitive opportunities against other children and comparing their own personal bests.
As a coastal town, swimming is a vital life skill for the children we serve. Children are taught how to use a range of different strokes and work towards swimming twenty-five metres unaided by the end of year six. Most importantly, children are taught safe-self rescue in different water-based situations.
| Mission Statement | |||||
| With Jesus, we learn to love and love to learn | |||||
| Our Vision | |||||
| To give every child a sense of belonging, so that they have a safe and stable base from which to develop and learn. | To enable every child to grow academically, socially, morally, spiritually and culturally in the knowledge that they are loved by God and can feel safe and valued within our school community. | To nurture and support children through their primary school journey so that they are confident and well equipped to progress into the wider world as strong, independent learners and thoughtful, caring individuals. | |||
| Our Values | |||||
| Resilience | Inclusion | Honesty | Compassion | Respect | Love |
| Intent | |||||
In physical education, St. Clare’s school aims to ensure that all pupils:
*Taken from the National Curriculum in England: art and design programmes of study – Key stages 1 and 2 | |||||
| Implementation | |||||
| From the beginning of EYFS, children develop fundamental movement skills - skills that are used in every day life. These skills are used in a broad range of physical activities including: striking and fielding; invasion games; net and wall games; swimming; gymnastics; outdoor and adventurous activities. These activities allow for children to participate in intra-school competition. The children have opportunities to participate in intra-school competition though sporting activities within extra-curricular clubs at lunch times and after school. These extra-curricular clubs are aligned with the School Games calendar, which allows children the opportunity to participate in inter-school competition. This provides the children with links to external clubs. | |||||
| Impact | |||||
At St Clare's we aim to create people with and aim to work within the sports industry. Whether that be as athletes, coaches or officials. We also aspire for every child to lead healthy, active lives. | |||||
