Physical Education

PE at St Gerard’s Catholic Primary School

Vision Statement for PE (Intent)

St Gerard’s believes that physical education is an essential part of a child’s educational development. Our vision is for all children at St Gerard’s Catholic Primary School to experience excellent physical education, school sport and physical activity that will lead to life-long participation. We aim to develop a balanced program offering a variety of activities to enhance skills in physical education. Positive participation in physical education will enable children to build, self-esteem, team work and positive attitudes in P.E.

PE Curriculum – Implementation

P.E. at St Gerard’s RC Primary School plays a vital part of everyday school life. All pupils have a minimum of two hours of PE timetabled each week. P.E. offers children a combination of physical education, physical activity and competitive sports.

Our aim is to develop children’s ability in a range of physical activities, to ensure children are able to sustain physical activity for a period of time and encourage children to engage in competitive sports and activities. In doing so, this will enable children to confidently lead healthy, active lives during and beyond school.

As a school, we comply with our duties in the Equality Act 2010 and the Special Educational Needs & Disability Regulations 2014, to make the PE curriculum accessible for those with disabilities or special educational needs.

Have a look at the PE long term overview for this academic year:

PE Kit Expectations:
It is a school expectation that children should come to school wearing the correct school PE kit.

On PE days, children come to school wearing their PE kit for the whole day. Please check with your child’s teacher for information about PE days or take a look at the list below: (this is subject to change):

Please see your child’s class page for PE days:

Extra Curricular Clubs

At St Gerard’s we love to give our children opportunities to take part in extra curricular clubs, Take a look at some of the things that the children have taken part in…

Urban Kaos

Multi-sports clubs

Swimming

Children in KS2 are taught key skills in swimming through lessons at Borocuda. Within these lessons, children are taught to become effective swimmers in a variety of strokes, enabling them to swim at least 25 metres confidently and proficiently. Children are also taught key water-safety skills and knowledge and ways in which they can perform safe, self-rescues in different water based situations.

Swimming

Competitions

Take a look at the NPCAT competition calendar below. St Gerard’s will be taking part in all of the competitions.

Year 6 football team champions!

Stay Active!

At St Gerard’s we love to stay active during the day. We believe that is helps keep our brain working for longer! We will be posting different ways that you can stay active at home and in school.