Welcome to our sport and P.E. page

Intent Statement

Throughout Early Years there are opportunities for children to become more culturally aware using the immediate environment of home, school and local area.  Expectations, around pupils becoming effective communicators, are enhanced in school in partnership with increasing parental engagement. 

Throughout Key Stage 1 there are opportunities for pupils to access outdoor learning, to develop existing skills from Early Years, within the Maths and English curriculum. The cultural diversity of the North East is explored and the vibrancy celebrated to develop respect amongst our young citizens to uphold British Values.

Throughout Key Stage 2 pupils’ life skills are further developed to show an understanding and demonstration of the attitudes needed to recognise their own and others, social, emotional and mental well-being. The varied and rich enhancements offered to pupils develop their range of vocabulary and debating skills around current affairs.

By the end of primary school pupils are confident and clear communicators who are able to articulate their views and opinions, in a range of situations, thus enabling them to become responsible citizens who enhance the community they live in.

P.E.

In terms of the specific P.E. curriculum our intent is that: -

• we celebrate the cultural capital intent above and offer pupils a variety of opportunities that P.E. offers through which they can develop a sense of personal achievement, fair play, teamwork and an understanding of the ways in which sport can transcend social and cultural boundaries
• pupils have a range of experiences in sports beyond those typically offered within a school, for example, archery, badminton, golf and orienteering so that taster sessions of experiences may lead to new hobbies being formed and future champions enthused
• Forest School activities use the outdoor environment, as a core learning area, to enhance pupil life skills; knowledge of the world around them; encourage respect and foster a ownership with the outdoor environment whilst offering wider opportunities to pupils to thrive and celebrate skills that some wouldn’t have in the classroom
• a range of opportunities are available for pupils to participate competitively with other schools across the district which enables them to develop resilience, build confidence and team building
• by the end of Year 6, pupils will have had the opportunity to earn a blue sport hoodie which celebrates their success in representing school on a range of teams and in festivals/competitions throughout KS2

PE Lessons

Catchgate Primary School has a rich history of sporting success. We take part in a wide range of inter school sports organised by both our local associations and the local School Sport Partnership. We aim to provide as many opportunities as possible for children to be active and experience as many new sporting activities as possible during curriculum time and as part of after school clubs. We provide an hour of high quality Physical Education in all classes across the school and are committed to ensuring that our staff are constantly developing their skills to do this.

In our school we follow the Moving Together Durham scheme. This is a programme that encourages schools to ensure children are active as much as possible. Each class completes movement breaks throughout the day to help children to concentrate, release energy and feel more focussed in class. Movement breaks are very helpful for children's health and wellbeing. We see a huge difference in our pupils in lesson after they have took part in a short movement break. We try to have an active classroom as much as we can.  In our school we have a weekly award for our pupils that is given to children each Friday in collective worship to celebrate their performances throughout any activity in school which is active. This could be for swimming, excelling in a P.E lesson, doing great in a class movement break or great outdoor active learning. 

Competitive Sport

This year we have partnered with Durham and Chester-le-Street School Sport Partnership (SSP). Through this partnership we have competed in cross country, a mixed football after-school league and an indoor athletics competition. 

In the cross country, 3 out of the 4 teams we took finished in top 3 in their respective age/gender groups. Two of our runners also qualified individually for the county finals in which they both represented school fantastically. 

The indoor athletics team consisted of Year 5 and Year 6 children. The children competed really well and ended up in 3rd place overall. Our boys team finished with the highest score on the day. 

Our mixed football team performed brilliantly finishing in the top 5 of the league which allowed them to qualify for a mini cup competition. In the 5 cup matches, they only lost game which was to the eventual winners and came joint 2nd overall.

We look forward to lots of other sporting events over the course of the year.