PE
PE plays an essential role in fostering competence with gross motor skills. This is a vital skill to achieve as early as possible for all children to allow them to develop both physically and in the classroom environment as, without gross motor control, children will struggle with fine motor control which is necessary for many skills such as drawing, writing, cutting and sticking.
PE is taught twice per week across all year groups. In PE, every class follows a progressive, school-designed scheme that covers a range of skill development across several sporting mediums, including:
Invasion Games
Gymnastics
Dance
Problem-Solving
Swimming (Year 5 Autumn and Spring terms)
Athletics.
In Early Years and Key Stage 1, children develop fundamental movement skills, become increasingly competent and confident with them and they access a broad range of opportunities to extend their agility, balance and coordination, both individually and with others. They engage in competitive (both against self and against others) and co-operative physical activities, in a range of increasingly challenging situations.
When pupils reach Key Stage 2, they continue to apply and develop a broader range of skills, learning how to use them appropriately in different settings. Pupils develop their communication and collaboration skills by working together. Pupils are taught how to improve in different physical activities and sports and learn how to evaluate and recognise their own success. In Year 6 they are also introduced to officiating where they are required to implement the rules of a game in a fair way.
To support with the delivery of PE to our children, school employs Active Tameside coaches to teach the children once a week. This is alongside Mr Davenport teaching PE to all classes. Mr Davenport has Level 2 National Governing Body qualifications in multiple sports along with over 20 years’ experience in coaching.
PE lessons are complimented by a variety of after-school sports clubs and we also have links with local sporting clubs.
Hurst Knoll St James' is a member of the Tameside School Sports Partnership; this offers the opportunity to children in Key Stage 2 to take part in competitions with other schools across Tameside with competitions taking place in a variety of sports.