PE at St Andrew's C of E Primary School.
PE is an essential part of the curriculum at St Andrew's. We use it to help children be more active, encourage good mental health and build teamworking skills. We also try to help the children to experience sports they wouldn't normally take part in.
We recognise that physical activity is important in the development of children, as a result, our curriculum is progressive, offering children the opportunity to develop skills they have learnt in previous years. The skills taught can transcend different sports, so children get the opportunity to use these skills in a variety of different sports, from hockey, football, netball and basketball through to tennis, short tennis and badminton.
We encourage children to take part in all sports and can differentiate our lessons to support children of all abilities and challenge those who excel at certain sports. Children also get the opportunity to work on dance patterns, either learning different types of dances or developing their own. In gymnastics, they link areas of the curriculum to movements they make and work in groups to develop routines, sometimes working with apparatus.
The school have used the Sports Premium money to bring experienced sports providers into school to teach a variety of different sports. As well as offering exciting and engaging lessons for the children, they have also given ideas to staff and helped develop their teaching of PE in school.
We also encourage the competitive aspect of sport and the importance of working in teams through sports competitions within school and outside of school. Every summer, we host a hotly contested competitive sports day, where children are organised into Houses and compete against each other in different events. Outside of school we provide opportunities to compete in competitive sports events throughout the year.
At St Andrew's, we will continue to provide a variety of different sports and allow children to experience things they might never have done before, so that they continue to be challenged and captivated by our creative PE curriculum.