St Maria Goretti

PE

St. Maria's offers exceptional opportunities for pupils to both access a range of physical activities and develop their physical skills.  Alongside teachers and specialist coaches delivering high quality skills based lessons, children are also given the opportunity to access alternative sports, such as yoga, lacrosse and fencing within the curriculum.  

As part of the extended schools provision, all pupils have the opportunity to access various sporting activities including football, athletics, tag rugby, tennis and multi skills. There are also opportunities for each year group to participate in sporting events and inter school competitions within our Multi academy. These take place regularly throughout the year to allow the children to compete in a variety of sporting activities. 

 Through the curriculum and extended schools provision, St Maria has previously been awarded the Silver Award in 2022-2023. This was upgraded from the Bronze Award in previous years.

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The Intent, Implementation and Impact of our Curriculum – PE.

 PE at St Maria Goretti Catholic Academy aims to develop the knowledge, skills and capabilities necessary for mental, emotional, social and physical wellbeing in our children now and for their future. Physical fitness is an important part of leading a healthier lifestyle. It teaches self-discipline and that to be successful you must work hard, show resilience and have the determination to believe that anything can be achieved, aspects which are integral to our ethos at St Maria Goretti Catholic Academy.

Intent

 It is our intent at St Maria Goretti Catholic Academy through Physical Education to teach children life skills that will positively impact on their future. We aim to deliver high-quality teaching and learning opportunities, which are not only inclusive and engaging to all children, but also inspire all children to succeed in physical activities and engage in a healthy lifestyle. We aim to teach children how to cooperate and collaborate with others, as part of a team, understand fairness and equity of play and to embed these as life-long values.  We would like our children to develop into confident and competent learners across a broad range of physical activities. We aim to achieve this through providing all children opportunities to experience a wide range of alternative sports, not just PE lessons and clubs focused on mainstream sports. We encourage, promote and celebrate participation in physical exercise, both in a competitive and non-competitive environment, along with parental involvement through bootcamp and active family sessions.  

Implementation

PE at St Maria Goretti Catholic Academy provides challenging and enjoyable learning through a range of sporting activities. The long term plan sets out the PE units which are to be taught throughout the year and ensures that the requirements of the National Curriculum are fully met.

Pupils participate in high quality PE lessons each week covering two sporting disciplines every half term.  Our PE programme incorporates a variety of sports to ensure all children develop a range of transferable skills and a confidence to participate in different sports.

Pupils attend swimming lessons in Years 3, 4 and 6, with boosters provided for those pupils in both Years 3 and 4 who do not meet the expected criteria.

Pupils learn through observation, participation, performance and analysis, building on skills previously taught and through understanding how skills are transferable not only between different sports and activities, but other areas of the curriculum.  Through PE lessons and sporting events, children develop teamwork and leadership skills and the ability to analyse and understand where improvements can be made in their performance/work.  We provide opportunities for all children to engage in extra-curricular activities before, during and after school, in addition to competitive and non-competitive sporting events. This is an inclusive approach which endeavours to encourage not only physical development and good sporting attitudes, but also well-being.

Impact

Our curriculum aims to improve the well-being and fitness of all children at St Maria Goretti Catholic Academy, not only through the sporting skills taught, but also through the underpinning values and disciplines PE promotes. Within our lessons, children are taught about self-discipline and that to be successful you need to take ownership of, and responsibility for their own health and fitness. Our impact is therefore to motivate children to utilise these underpinning skills in an independent and effective way in order to both live happy and healthy lives and to achieve their very best in all they do.

For ideas and to help you and your children live healthy and active lives, click the links below:

Promoting healthy eating and physical activity:  https://www.nhs.uk/change4life  Ideas to help eat healthy and become active as a family:

https://letsmove.obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/letsmove.gov/files/pdfs/TAKE_ ACTION_PARENTS.pdf

Swimming Data 2022-23

Meeting national curriculum requirements for Swimming and water safety