St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

PE Curriculum

Physical exercise is good for the body and the brain! All young people should have the opportunity to live healthy and active lives. A positive experience of sport and physical activity at a young age can build a lifetime habit of participation.

Please see our Curriculum Progression Documents below which map out our PE teaching at school.

PE Progression EYFS - Year 2

PE Progression Year 3 - Year 6

'Complete PE' is used to support our teaching of PE. This is a web based programme which offers stepped lessons as well as videos and suggested activities to ensure active lessons with a clear progression. 'Complete PE' is a comprehensive PE curriculum and the supporting materials help teachers deliver high impact lessons. This programme is also supplemented with specialist teachers coming in to support specific sports. As well as the traditional sports, we cover exercise, wellbeing, orienteering and dance among other areas.

Physical activity has numerous benefits for children and young people’s physical health, as well as their mental wellbeing. To promote this, we have a running track! On this track, pupils are encouraged to take a daily run (extreme weather permitting!) to boost their bodies and minds.

We have also invested in a Multi Use Games Area (MUGA) for the older children to take part in PE and active playtimes even when the field is out of use.

The PE and Sport Premium can help primary schools to achieve this aim, providing primary schools with £320m of government funding to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of the PE, physical activity and sport offered through their core budgets. Below is a link to the webpage containing our report detailing how the allocation for our school was spent in the previous academic year, along with our plans for the year ahead.

PE and Sport Premium Report

We also cover important life skills combined with physical activity, such as swimming / life saving skills and cycling proficiency. Our residential trips often allow pupils to experience more unusual sports, such as canoeing, caving and climbing.

Former pupils have been welcomed into school lately: an Olympian hockey player and a Rugby World Cup finalist. An Oxford City first team member also visited the school, bringing along the trophy the team earned on promotion to the National League. These visits raise the profile of sport in school and inspire our pupils. All our visitors spoke about the dedication and resilience needed to compete in high-level sport.

We also enter Year 6 children into the city centre’s Half Marathon event every autumn.