Physical Education

Physical Education

Welcome to the P.E area of our website!

Our Christian Vision for P.E:

At St James', we aim to offer a broad range of sports and physical activities across school to ensure every child has the chance to participate, enjoy and achieve success. This encourages our children to enjoy all aspects of life, enabling them to live life to the full. We are able to demonstrate our school values by working as a team; communicating effectively; questioning one another; playing fairly and becoming well-rounded sports people.

We try to offer every single child the opportunity to represent our amazing school at a sports competition, event or festival during their time with us at St James'. We actively encourage parents and carers to support the children at these events and to become part of our family and our team. It is our hope that, through PE, every child has the opportunity to spark a sustainable interest in, or develop a talent in, an area of sports which they can carry with them throughout, and beyond, their journey at St. James'.

Our Curriculum:

Across school we follow the Get Set 4 PE scheme. This allows us to plan, deliver and assess quality PE lessons and consistently monitor progress across school. Below, you will find links to our PE overview, as well as progression, policies and key learning documents.

What have we been up to in PE?

60 Active Minutes

At St. James', we encourage our children to live healthy active lifestyles to help them to achieve the 60 active minutes target (as recommended by the chief medical officer for England). We understand the importance of physical activity and the contribution this has towards health, well-being, academic attainment and each child's holistic development. We aim for our children to develop healthy habits that will sustain into adulthood. Throughout the day, our children have the opportunity to enjoy a variety of activities, such as:

active playtimes
coach-led games during playtimes at least once a week
breakfast club
after-school clubs
physically active brain breaks (e.g. using Go Noodle)
active classroom learning activities (e.g. through Teach Active)

We also encourage our children to walk, cycle or scoot to school whenever possible. Those children who live too far away from school to walk are encouraged to 'park and stride' (park 10 minutes walk from school so they can walk the last part of their journey). We are currently taking part in the Living Streets WOW Walk to School Challenge. The Walk to School ambassadors from each class track how children have travelled to school every day and the children are awarded special, limited-edition badges for walking to school every week.